Arrests, detentions and deportations of migrants at the southern border have increased in the last year
than ever before in American history. (Photo: The newspaper)
WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 27 (RHC) About 22,000 migrants remain in shelters, streets and makeshift camps in three northern Mexico cities this Tuesday while awaiting the end of Title 42, which is used in the United States to limit asylum.
Officials and advocates for these groups told CNN that the number must increase as long as this policy, inherited from Donald Trump’s presidency (2017-2021), remains in legal limbo.
The director of migration affairs of the Mexican city of Tijuana, Enrique Lucero, explained that almost nine thousand migrants live in shelters, houses and other areas of this territory.
Around 60 percent are Mexican, the rest come from countries like Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Another 8,000 remain in the town of Reynosa, said Pastor Héctor Silva, who manages shelters in the area.
Around 5,000 migrants are in the demarcation of Matamoros, the TV station found.
Images of long lines of undocumented immigrants exposed to low temperatures have been released in recent days.
The policy, which allows migrants to be quickly deported without giving them asylum opportunities, was due to end on the 21st of this month, but just before that date the US Supreme Court temporarily stayed its lifting.
Last November, Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the injunction overturned, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.”
The measure, in place since March 2020, also received questions because it is applied unevenly by nationality, mostly affecting people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, in addition to Mexicans.
According to press reports, the number of arrests, detentions and deportations of migrants at the southern border in the past year has been higher than at any time in US history.
Federal officials warned of a massive increase in border detections after Title 42 ends, but an analysis of Border Police data found lifting the measure could reduce border crossings and ease strain on the immigration system in the long run. (Source.PL)