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US Border Migrants Crisis: HUGE Rise in Crossings as End of Title 42 Looms
Mexico: More Than 340 Migrants Found in Truck Trailer
Mexican officials have found more than 340 people in an abandoned truck trailer in the state of Veracruz, including 103 unaccompanied minors. BBC 7 MAR 2023 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...m128870359.jpg The migrants were from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador. It is one of the biggest recent discoveries of migrant children traveling through Mexico. All appeared unharmed and the trailer had fans and ventilation ports, officials said. The driver's whereabouts are unknown. Fleeing poverty and violence in Central America, many undocumented migrants end up paying huge sums of cash to people-smugglers to get them across the US border. Last year, 53 migrants were found dead in an abandoned truck trailer in the US state of Texas. A total of 343 people were found in the vehicle on Sunday night, Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said. They were found on a common route used to take migrants to the US border. The migrants wore colour-coded bracelets to identify them as smugglers' clients, officials said. A photo distributed by INM showed plastic bottles and rubbish strewn across the floor of the trailer. The migrants will be cared for by Mexican social services until their status is decided. Border patrol data obtained by CBS News in October shows that at least 853 migrants died trying to cross the US-Mexico border unlawfully in the previous 12 months. That made the fiscal year of 2022 the deadliest year for migrants recorded by the US government, far exceeding the previous record of 546 migrant deaths in 2021. US Border Patrol apprehended a record 2.2 million migrants at the south-west border in the same period. RELATED |
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US Border Crisis: El Paso Readies For Rise in Crossings as End of Title 42 Looms
A record number of migrants were recently apprehended at the US-Mexico border in a single day, fuelling fears over what will happen in a few hours when a controversial immigration policy expires. BBC News 12 MAY 2023 https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.C...EO&pid=Api&P=0 https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Z...E8&pid=Api&P=0 The rule, known as Title 42, was first implemented in 2020 and made it easier for the US to expel migrants back to Mexico using the coronavirus pandemic as justification. But its looming expiration at 23:59 ET on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday) has triggered a rush to reach the border, and cities on both sides are readying for a rise in attempted crossings once it lapses. President Joe Biden acknowledged earlier this week that the border would be "chaotic for a while" despite the best efforts of the authorities. The potential impact is already clear in the Texas city of El Paso, which is seeing an increase in arrivals ahead of the rule change. Migrants - many of them confused about the impending change - are sleeping rough in makeshift campsites on the city's streets. Several thousand were camped out earlier this week around a church in the city centre. "We've never seen this before," Mayor Oscar Leeser said at a border security expo just streets away from the campsite on Wednesday. "Something has to change. As a community, we can't do this forever." ---Confusion and fear at US border as law change looms He warned that across from El Paso alone, an estimated 10,000 migrants were "lined up at the border, waiting to come in". Graphic showing rise in expulsions at border https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...ulsions-nc.png |
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