Without the excitement of other moments when columns of thousands of people from Honduras or Guatemala formed, heading toward the border with Mexico through Tapachula and other southern border crossings, the country gradually refilled with Haitians, Venezuelans and citizens other countries. Even in Africa, this increased pressure on transit routes to the north.
Thousands of them arrived secretly, and now they are suddenly seen, as seen in the scenes of freight trains with their roofs and open cars full of people desperately trying to reach the Mexican edge of the Rio Grande, to cross it and the reaching American shores, from where they were returned almost immediately.
And even though the vast majority know this is highly likely, they still put their money in the hands of the coyotes. They continue to insist on reaching the river bank and putting themselves in the hands of the patrols, who treat them ruthlessly because that is their order.
Especially those attempting the Texas section, with Gov. Greg Abbot’s cruel measures.
The calls and support of the Mexican authorities, as well as the opportunities offered to them to use the humanitarian work visas secured for them in the South and Southeast, have been of little use, since the goal of the vast majority of them is to fulfill the humanitarian work visa “dream. “Americans,” although they fear it will be a nightmare.
Every day, Mexico sends back hundreds of people with the sentimental burden that comes with it, but it is accepting more and more from its border neighbor, almost worse than in the time of Donald Trump, migrants complain.
The pilgrimage of the contingents that make the exodus swell hour by hour is pitiful, not only because of the scenes in which the anti-government television recreates itself with videos in the convoys of dirty mining wagons in which they travel with an incredibly higher hope real Dangers to their lives.
Children, women and even the elderly seem like characters from a new lifestyle that no one understands, with fears more painful than wounds, and from the statements of those who feel they are being treated like aliens or fourth-class beings, the basics emerge Argument from Tragedy. .
The situation shows that nothing that has been done so far is a solution to the problem and everything is more laziness than hard work.
The Mexican government insists on this when it repeatedly calls for – and has again expressed this in this session of the UN General Assembly – to address the causes of migration.
But no one wants to put their finger in it, because that means accepting the need to change everything and admitting that we are in a state of change, as Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina, said at the summit of the Group of 77 and China in Havana Era. And it is necessary to grab it by the horns.
Neither bullets nor gunpowder are of any use to those who contributed to this brutal crisis, which seems to have no end as hunger, misery and desperation due to social and economic inequality drive people from their homes like hurricanes.
For some analysts in Mexico, the dramatic increase along the border between the two countries – particularly in San Diego, California, and the Texas cities of El Paso and Eagle Pass – represents a turning point after numbers have declined sharply in recent months, and could have new consequences electoral challenges, which, for example, La Jornada has drawn attention to.
However, it is no longer even the election issue that is the most important or urgent, but rather the moral and spiritual crisis and the lack of leadership through Argo’s eyes, which can see that the world is on the last leg of the path that leads it to an abyss , in which the war in Ukraine is a simplicity.
As was just said at the United Nations at the high-level preparatory meetings for the Future Summit, time is running out and we must hurry to solve these problems.
And although it is already late, in this 78th period of the General Assembly there is still room for concrete measures that will pull the UN and rich countries out of inertia, as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned a few hours ago.
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