Chihuahua.- Crying, hugging their daughters and resisting the frustration of having failed in a new attempt to find peace is the only one left to Julia and Ana Maria, Guatemalans returned from the United States in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and those currently in the shelter municipal Kiki Romero. Both were returned without having had a chance to present their cases to a judge.
With uncontrollable tears, Julia Vázquez, 27, hugs her four-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, she tries to understand why she was once again denied the chance to reunite with her husband and son, whom she has not seen in more than three years.
The situation of insecurity i poverty of her family in Guatemala was unsustainable, so, she says, her husband and eldest son fled to the United States, where they managed to intern; however, for Julia and her little one they add up to already six frustrated attempts to enter.
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“Because we were poor, [mi esposo] he went to the other side and took my other son, then we tried to go: they said there was a pass and we left. One is seen in great suffering: cold, hunger, thirst … to be deported again “, reflects Julia.
The woman is on this border after crossing Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and feels lost in not having money or clarity on what she will do in the coming days, especially after the suffering to which her daughter was exposed. to reach northern Mexico.
“It hurts me. We suffered with my daughter so many things along the way, we went and migration took us. Only one night they left us and returned us.”
No right to speak
For Ana María Moreno and her five-year-old daughter, the story is not much different.
“I am sad. It has been a very hard journey. I was going through the trials that I have been fleeing my country and I was hoping that they would support me,” she says through tears, as she cares for her daughter, who has been vomiting for three days.
the hope of Ana Maria to offer her daughter a better future was sold out in less than 24 hours, as the migratory authorities they didn’t just give her the opportunity of an audience to narrate the terrible situation she and her daughter face in Guatemala alone.
“If I made the decision [de migrar] it was because he wanted protection for my daughter, but they didn’t listen to me, we didn’t have the right to speak, they didn’t care. “
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As for humanitarian conditions for Ana Maria and her daughter, get to the municipal hostel Kiki Romero, In Ciudad Juárez, meant relief, as the night before they slept on a mattress on the floor, covered with an aluminum bag in a space with many other migrants ready to be returned to Mexico.
Under Title 42, related to public health risks, the United States returns 100 people a day, said Rogelio Pinal, the municipality’s director of human rights.
Along with them, another 38 people were received in this new space, which was enabled over the past weekend and opened its doors on Monday, with the purpose of evacuating existing hostels, due to the increase in the flow of migrants in the city.
Deportees, again
Rogelio Pinal Castellanos, director of human rights of the municipality, explained that, under Title 42, related to public health risks, the United States is returning about 100 people a day, so it was necessary to adapt this space in a dignified manner.
Derived from the guidelines of the Ministry of Health (Ssa), the hostels and shelters of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, are operating at 50% or 60% of their capacity, so they are expected to be insufficient to care for migrants who are returned to the country under this new scheme.
38 migrants they were received at the municipal hostel Kiki Romero, enabled on the weekend.