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Migrants who are expelled from the United States to the south of Mexico are forced by the Mexican authorities to leave the territory and staying in a community in the neighboring country of Guatemala, leaving them stranded and without a place to stay.
Agree With a report from The Washington Post newspaper, reveals that the migrants, who are mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, come to the Guatemalan community of El Ceibo, a town of some 300 people surrounded by farmland and jungle, without having the opportunity to seek refuge in Mexico .
The newspaper reports that the Casa del Migrante shelter, located in El Ceibo, which has a capacity for 30 people, has been overwhelmed by the large number of expelled arriving from the United States.
“We don’t know where we’re going to sleep tomorrow,” says Jennifer, a 24 years from the department de Morazón, who was traveling with her 9-month-old son.
Migrants describe “ a chaotic series of expulsions ”, first from his trip on airplanes from the United States until his arrival in Villahermosa Tabasco, Mexico , and completing his bus trip to Guatemala.
“The agents did not tell us where they were taking us and then, when the bus crossed into Guatemala, they said: ‘Okay, that’s all, get out’ “Says one of the testimonies.
” They are deceiving them, because in Mexico they are told that in El Ceibo there will be a bus that will take them to their countries. Are lies. When they arrive they say: Where is the bus? Where do I take it to go to my country? ”Said Natalia Lorenzo, who works for the Ombudsman’s Office of the Government of Guatemala in Petén.
Since the government of Joe Biden started the expulsion flights to the city of Villahermosa Tabasco, in southern Mexico, In an attempt to dissuade those who cross the border, Mexico agreed to accept those flights and said it would allow those who feared persecution in their countries of origin to seek asylum, the report said.
For its part, the Government of Joe Biden indicates that the expulsion flights are justified by a public health order of the Title 42 , which effectively closes the border for asylum seekers and other migrants during the COVID pandemic – 19.
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