2023-11-06 17:14:08
Tijuana BC.- The Municipal Directorate of Migrant Assistance broke up four camps that formed more than 100 people at the Tijuana and San Ysidro checkpointwhose members have the illusion that the agents of CBP will allow them to enter the United States to obtain asylum
According to the head of the agency, Enrique Lucero Vázquez, they are migrants from Guerrero, Michoacán and a family of Honduraswho were in the city’s shelters, but decided to leave due to the rumor that they would be allowed to enter the American Union.
He mentioned that some of the members of the nine families detected in the two camps on the pedestrian bridge, train station HIS and flower boxes near the curio stalls had already settled in the border port.
No date
Lucero Vázquez said that they are desperate families because they have not gotten an appointment CBP Onethe only means enabled by Joe Biden’s government to request humanitarian asylum.
Their right is guaranteed through the CBP One application, we cannot allow settlements because this causes a more serious situation than the one we are experiencing right now, allowing a camp could put migrants at greater risk, in a greater crisis. “humanitarian”
He warned.
The director assured that as an authority they will permanently monitor the checkpoint, since the migrants who were removed today could return or be joined by others who are desperate or uninformed about the humanitarian asylum process.
He reported that in Tijuana there are more than 14 thousand migrants who got their appointment CBP Onebut their entry into the United States is not immediate.
They are seeking asylum in the US
“Miroslava,” a fictitious name for security reasons, said that this Monday they completed 16 days of living outdoors trying to get closer to police officers. CBP to allow them to enter the United States and obtain asylum.
However, the staff of the Migration’s national institute (INM) and the National Guard (GN) prohibits them from approaching them, as well as from wandering at the entrance gates to the United States.
“It’s not easy to be around here, but at least we’re not involved in violence, it feels ugly because we don’t have things or anything,” he said.Miroslava”.
own will
Together with his family he left a shelter of his own volition. Tijuana and they decided to settle in the sentry box because the rumor among the migrants is that without the appointment of CBP One It is easy to cross into the American Union because we are victims of violence.
“The (police officers) on this side (of Tijuana) take us out, but those over there (the United States) give us hope,” said the migrant.
For her part, Mrs. Isabella, originally from El Salvador, also wandered around the checkpoint, but with the purpose of getting to know the area of El Chaparral, where she was summoned on November 17 by the US government to formally begin the process of humanitarian asylum.
Get an appointment
Getting the appointment took him three months and several stays in Costa Rica, Chiapas and Tijuana, where hope was his only consolation and motivation to avoid entering the United States illegally.
Isabella explained that before in 15 days an appointment was obtained CBP Onebut currently the waiting time is at least three months.
“Making the registration is not complicated because the truth is you do it yourself, but some are lucky that they get (the appointment) earlier, I have seen that for some it happens after 17 days, from one day to the next, they make the registration and it drops them the next day. “It’s all a matter of luck and having faith,” he explained.
And seeing other migrants who are desperate not to be cared for by the United States, he advised them to accept help from shelters for safety.
“Here they are in a bad position, the truth is, they should go wait in a shelter and have patience, calm, faith, because salt comes out. “There is a lot of risk for people here,” the Salvadoran warned.
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