Tens of This Wednesday, migrants jumped the border fence between Mexico and the United States in the city of Tijuana taking advantage of the work being done on the structure, with dramatic images of young children crossing the Wall.
In the afternoon, Several migrants ran towards the fence to cross it before the helpless gaze of a police officer guarding the Mexican side., observed the AFP. However, the most dramatic scenes occurred when some people crossed three minors over the wall, including a baby in their arms.
Other migrants carrying packages quickly crossed a wire fence and then climbed the wall, which in some sections is up to nine meters high.
Once they crossed, the migrants quickly ran towards US territory to surrender to the border patrol to request asylum.
As of this Wednesday, elements of the Mexican army and the National Guard are monitoring the area, however, they are not empowered to arrest or prevent migrants from trying to cross the border, reported Enrique Lucero, head of the Migrant Assistance Directorate in Tijuana. .
“We cannot arrest migrants for making the attempt,” the official said.
Lucero added that people who cross illegally into the United States and surrender to immigration authorities are immediately repatriated to Mexico or their place of origin and are also punished for five years, during which time they cannot request humanitarian asylum again in That country.
Meanwhile, in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, several migrants were crossing the Rio Grande (called the Rio Grande in the United States), which had a higher flow than usual.
The migrants carried their belongings high up, with the water reaching the necks of several of them.
“If we pass, they will deport all of us, all of us. We are going to do everything possible to pass,” Venezuelan Eduard Emilio Carpio, 25, told AFP.
The Mexican government has admitted to being overwhelmed by the number of migrants crossing its territory to reach the United States, the vast majority coming from Venezuela, Cuba and Central American countries.
In addition, it toughened measures to prevent the passage of irregular migrants through its territory using freight trains, after the largest local railway operator stopped 30% of its operations last week, overwhelmed by the flow of undocumented immigrants.
In August there were a record of almost 233,000 migrants crossing the southern border of the United States and the escalation continues in September. Mexican immigration authorities confirmed that so far this month they have detained 189,000 migrants, which represents a daily average of 9,000 people.
Source: Ambito
