“They have three options: the first is if they want to stay in Tijuana we are going to help them because they are already Tijuana residents, if they want to return to their places of origin we are going to pay for the transfers and if they want to wait for the ‘American dream’ we are also going to support them. wait,” he said.
In videos shared on social networks, an operation was observed with dozens of security personnel, including soldiers from the militarized National Guard, as families with small children gathered their belongings and left the fenced-in camp.
The mayor assured that none of the troops was armed and that “the people even took their things and began to get on the trucks (buses) of their own accord” because they had been previously notified that they would be transferred to another place.
In this regard, a Guatemalan migrant who preferred not to identify herself for fear of reprisals told Reuters that, days before the operation, the police officers who were guarding the area no longer allowed them to stay in the camp known as “El Chaparral”: “Some of us had to sleep on the street,” he confessed.
“They say they are not throwing us out by force, but if we don’t leave, they threaten us with deportation“added the woman, who arrived in Tijuana last year with her two children.
Every year, thousands of Central Americans flee violence and poverty at home and embark on a long and dangerous journey to the United States in search of a better future. The constant arrival of migrants to northern Mexico has caused saturation in migrant houses.
Source: Ambito
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