PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) — Opaque waiting lists at the Mexican border for a possibility of asylum in the United States have persisted before President Joe Biden, prompting many migrants to abandon and cross illegally or languish for months in border towns.
U. S. Arrangements U. S. raids in April expired to end the asylum limits expired by the pandemic resulted in the past circular of call logs. of a migrant care centre amounted to 2,000 before he was arrested.
Waiting lists have been widely used under former President Donald Trump to cope with a surge in the number of migrants from Mexico and Central America arriving at the border, starting with giant caravans in 2018. The cases are different now, but the procedure is only like confusing. Migrants do not know how to register or that lists exist.
The most recent chaotic episodes come as a surge in border crossings has a political tipping point for Biden, and Republicans say he’s not doing enough to prevent them. In a meeting with Biden in Washington on Tuesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador spoke of the demanding situations that were brutally highlighted through 53 migrants who died last month after being abandoned in a suffocating tractor-trailer in San Antonio.
U. S. Customs and Border ProtectionThe U. S. Department of Homeland Security began receiving 70 asylum seekers per day in San Diego in late April, one part selected through Al Otro Lado, which prioritizes waiting times for migrants, and the other part through Border Angels, which decided on Tijuana’s migrant shelters.
Biden’s management says it prioritizes the maximum “vulnerable,” which would possibly come with LGBTQ migrants, those with serious fitness issues or those facing imminent physical danger in Mexico, but the criteria are confusing and mysterious to many.
Nongovernmental organizations play a “critical role,” helping migrants and communicating with U. S. authorities, CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said in a recent interview.
“Is it the best system? Certainly not, but it’s been a very important component of the equation, those relationships,” Magnus said.
When the U. S. government told a small shelter in Ciudad Acuña that they were looking for 26 families at the border crossing with Del Rio, Texas, a false rumor spread that Magaly Perez, director of the San Antonio Community Center, was making a list.
“The next day we had another hundred people at the door,” Perez said. “The next day we had another three hundred people. It was given to them by the hands. “
Random and dubious arrangements have emerged along the border under the Trump administration. In Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, a migrant shelter searched asylum seekers by writing numbers on their arms in black ink. After much criticism, the migrants gained numbered numbers. plastic bracelets, some of which were sold or donated.
In San Luis Rio Colorado, near Yuma, Arizona, an asylum seeker who administered a list chose a successor when his number appeared. In Piedras Negras, the people’s government appointed the owner of a local steakhouse to oversee its list.
Biden’s management has upheld Trump’s policy of denying migrants the opportunity to seek asylum on the grounds of preventing COVID-19, and a federal judge’s order has kept the pandemic-related authority known as the Title 42 Authority in place after it expires. May 23.
The United States grants some exemptions under Title 42, however, the rule has been implemented through nationality, with single adults and families from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador being the most affected.
The United States accepted an average of 423 migrants per day at official crossings in May, 308 in March and 418 in February, according to court documents. April’s daily average of 1,614 was inflated due to a transience that is accumulating in Ukraine.
The migrants decided on Al Otro Lado’s list were registered a year ago, said Soraya Vazquez, deputy defense director of the organization’s Tijuana office. The organization is also operating remotely with migrants in Piedras Negras and other determined border towns.
A survey by the University of Texas Strauss Center found 27,135 names on waiting lists in eight Mexican border cities in May, before Al Otro Lado rose to about 50,000 at the end of June.
A neat formula will be if Title 42 ends and CBP is exploring an online platform.
In Pidras Negras, Isis Peña, 45, from Honduras, signed up for the Casa del Migrante’s short-term waiting list on April 29. When he arrived here for his interview five days later, he said opportunities to apply for asylum were no longer open. available. ” We looked for someone who would give us hope,” said Peña, who then illegally crossed into Eagle Pass with her 19- and 20-year-old children and was deported under Title 42.
Peña — whose circle of relatives is now homeless and for food — clings to common and unfounded rumors that the Biden administration is about to open the border.
“The data is very confusing and the tactics of the formula are very confusing,” said Edgar Rodriguez, legal counsel for Casa del Migrante.
The lack of shelter means that many of the roughly three hundred migrants, mostly Hondurans, who line up for hot breakfasts to take six mornings a week at the Casa del Migrante, sleep outside.
While an organization was waiting for food in June, one of them thankfully shared a text message from an Al Otro Lado lawyer: “Congratulations!He has been approved for humanitarian parole. It included orders to report to the Eagle Pass border crossing the next day at five in the morning.
Kenya Carcamo, who was expelled from Eagle Pass under Title 42, has never heard of the list.
“It’s a lucky roulette,” Carcamo said.
Joan Leiva, a gay boy who fled persecution in Honduras, enrolled in Al Otro Lado in May and slept in a park in Ciudad Acuña until police deported the migrants.
“We’re adrift,” said Leiva, 31. We don’t know where to go to ask for information. No one tells us. “