Mexico City.
An apparent normalcy reigns in the American city of the Step, On the border with Mexico, although precisely from here the USA devuelvand many of the undocumented trying to get into these weeks of the migration crisis which has exploded in the president Joe Biden.
These people are left on the Mexican side of the international bridge North Passage, Which worries activists in the area as the hostels in Ciudad Juárez they begin to be crowded.
“What I saw in Juárez it ‘s confusing, “volunteer Cecília Herrera, who helps immigrants to El Paso.
For this woman, the situation in the Mexican town contrasts with that of the hostels in El Paso, Where management is more orderly and rules are applied to prevent contagion from covid19.
THE “CALL EFFECT” OF BIDEN
Criticisms are reinforcing him Biden by the increase in the arrival of immigrants undocumented, many of them Minors alone, after promising more humane treatment.
However, at the first press conference of his term this Thursday, the president did not show up penedit of having revoked the migration policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
At the limit, the Border patrol struggles with the entry of unaccompanied minors, those who are not expels immediately, So they are being sent to shelters.
The activists in the Step they attribute the massive arrival of children and adolescents to a resource of parental despair to prevent them minors stay waiting in Mexico, as they are sent alone to the northern country.
“Unfortunately, the ‘Title 42’ (which protects evictions) does put parents in a very, very difficult position in which they have to choose whether your children they stay with them or if they enter the US on their own, alone, ”Lopez lamented.
A SITUATION THAT I SAW COMING TO THE STEP
While in Washington immigration tops the debate politician, en the Step this is a situation that was seen to be coming.
“What is happening right now at the border is that we have thousands of people who during the last two years of the Administration of (Donald) Trump have been waiting for Mexico to be able to enter the US and apply for asylum“Melissa López, executive director of Diocesan Services for Migrants and Refugees in El Paso, told Efe.
“And now,” he continued, “how we have one new president, They see it as an opportunity to be able to get into United States “.
A few meters from Mexican territory, the Step has seen tens of thousands of people parade in the last 10 years, the number fluctuating, depending on conditions in their home countries. To this are added the policies of the US government on duty.
During his tenure, one of the measures Trump put in place was the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, in English or also known as “Be in Mexico”), which forced thousands of applicants asylum in the US to wait for Mexico to have their demands resolved.
THE UNDOCUMENTED, doomed to EXPRESS EXPULSIONS
Biden premiered at the White house with the announcement suspending registrations in the MPP, the first of several steps to end these policies, and the one that predicted the beginning of an era for immigrants.
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However, while the migratory system, the undocumenteds entering the US crash into the reality of express expulsions.
In parallel, a the Step three groups of around 40 asylum seekers are arriving daily, admission is authorized prior to testing against covid and they, according to Herrera, are leaving for other destinations in the country in a maximum of 72 hours.
“There is the capacity, there is the preparation “, Stated the volunteer. EFE