By: EFE
By: EFE
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The first migrants who requested asylum in the United States and were affected by the reinstatement of the Migrant Protection Program (MPP) or “Remain in Mexico” arrived this Wednesday at the border Ciudad Juárez from the United States.
To the Lerdo international bridge, which connects Juárez with El Paso , Texas, arrived unaccompanied two men, one of Nicaraguan origin and the other Honduran.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authorities of The United States and the Mexican National Guard guided them until they reached the immigration offices, where they were tested for Covid – 19.
In the place there were portable tents for the re reception of undocumented immigrants with staff from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Local officials explained that would transfer the asylum seekers to a public shelter in the north of the city.
These are the first two migrants affected by the new version of the “Remain in Mexico” or “Remain in Mexico”, which was reactivated on Monday following an agreement between the President of the United States, Joe Biden , and the Mexican, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Only in Ciudad Juárez are expected of 30 to 40 people returned daily , explained in a statement Óscar Ibáñez, representative in the municipality of the governor of Chihuahua , Maru Campos.
Activists have warned that The great challenge is to set up shelters for migrants.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on this border, from the network they support with 23 hostels, there are 2, 967 beds, but 85% are already occupied.
For now, more from 26,500 petitioners are on MPP waiting lists in eight Mexican border cities , revealed last week a study by the University of Texas at Austin.
The program, established by Donald Trump and reactivated by Biden following an order from the Supreme Court, forces asylum seekers from the United States to wait for their process in Mexican territory.
The migratory wave has shaken this 2021 to Mexico co with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of foreigners, mostly Central Americans and Haitians, who have come to the country in search of crossing into the United States.
The Mexican authorities have intercepted 228, 123 migrants and deported to 82, 627 from January to October 2021, numbers not seen in more than 15 years.
Also, 123, 000 migrants have applied for asylum in Mexico in the first eleven months of 2021, another absolute record.
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