More Than 11,000 Migrants Waiting In Northern Mexico Amid Border Surge

While thousands of migrants enter the United States illegally every day, more than 11,000 people remain in shelters and camps on the Mexican side of the border, according to community leaders. With Washington uncertain about the future of US immigration policy, those awaiting migrants and asylum seekers remain hopeful of entering the country through legal channels created by the Biden administration.

According to municipal migration affairs director Enrique Lucero, an estimated 3,800 migrants from Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela are sleeping in shelters in Tijuana, Mexico, across the border from San Diego, California.

Another 3,273 migrants are waiting at Senda De Vida shelters in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas, according to priest Hector Silva, who runs the facility. In adjacent Matamoros, Mexico, 4,000 migrants live in camps, shelters, and abandoned homes, according to Glady Caas, founder of Ayudandoles a Triunfar.

Federal authorities reported a seven-day average of more than 9,600 migrant

According to Caas, the waiting people are “desperate,” but many have placed their belief in mechanisms such as the CBP One app, which automates booking appointments to seek asylum with border patrol.

In recent weeks, US border cities have strained under the weight of an unprecedented influx of Mexican immigrants.  Federal authorities reported a seven-day average of more than 9,600 migrant interactions along the US southern border in December. The seven-day average reported on November 28 was approximately 6,800 interactions.

Three people drowned in the Rio Grande in the Matamoros area in December, according to Caas, but many continue to try to cross the river despite the deadly threats. People who opt not to wait for a legal road are frequently blinded by hope, bolstered by video and voice messages from migrants who have been processed by US immigration authorities and released into American communities, she added.

It is confirmed that big groups of migrants are still arriving at the border by train

According to the same official, illegal crossings continue despite the improvement in Eagle Pass because criminals force migrants to cross the US southern border between ports of entry, including rural Arizona.

It is confirmed that big groups of migrants are still arriving at the border by train. According to Sister Isabel Turcios, director of a shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico, just across the border from Eagle Pass, approximately 1,000 migrants arrived by train on Monday. She claimed that violence in the streets of Piedras Negras prevented huge numbers of people from crossing into the United States on Monday.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is scheduled to meet in Mexico City on Wednesday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and President Biden’s Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.

SOURCE – (CNN)