At least 300 migrants of different nationalities who flee from Mexican criminals This Monday they set up a camp between the barricades and the United States border wall.
In images captured by EFE, you can see how the foreigners positioned themselves along the enormous security fence on the American side, and set up tents with sheets and fabrics.
“It’s like a waiting camp, not a living camp, “It’s like they wait for a certain time at night or think they can pass quickly,” explained Arturo Guerra Matei, a Venezuelan who has been stranded in Ciudad Juárez for two and a half months.
He said that people tryn prevent attacks by Mexican gangs and criminals and that, faced with the attacks, a group preferred to cross a small channel of the Rio Grande until reaching the wires. It is US territory there and that makes them feel more secure.
“Mexican criminals They began to throw stones at them and steal their water, That’s why they dispersed; I think it is a little difficult to cross (to the United States) right now,” Guerra Matei added.
The hundreds of migrants set up camp days ago on the river bed, in front of Gate 28, at the height of the La
They cross at all hours
At all hours you can see how groups of more than 10 migrants leave the camp and walk through the undergrowth and then cross through gaps in the razor wire barricades where they have now set up a camp. This, before the inability of the Texas National Guard to stop them.
Then they go up to the foot of the wall, where they formed a line that begins at gate 28, where they wait for that United States Immigration agents detain them and take them to a detention center to begin their process.
Throughout the morning of this Monday, agents from the National Immigration Institute They didn’t appear near that door, where the migrant camp is concentrated. Thus, border surveillance was left in the hands of the United States National Guard.
Faced with the entry of hundreds of migrants who get under the wires, the National Guard modified its strategy and located an agent every 100 meters along the border river, but the migrants continue crossing.
“The journey has become very strong”
Aarón Marín, another Venezuelan who arrived in Ciudad Juárez last week by train, decided not to risk it and wait for his appointment through the CBP One app, which is the official way to legally enter the United States.
“They told us it is the safest border, but that is not how one really sees it.”. The journey has been very difficult, many complications along the way, Now there is less to go, but we have to wait for the appointment to move forward and have a better path,” he told EFE in front of the cathedral, where they are fed and placed in shelters.
“All the shelters are also ‘full’, a little roof at least to sleep and spend the night. We stay here, we are seeing if there is any work,” Marín added.
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