US (Washington Insider Magazine)— Recently, CNN has discovered from community leaders that more than 11,000 migrants are waiting in northern Mexico amid a border surge. Thousands of migrants enter the US illegally every day. Washington is split on the future of US immigration guidelines. Waiting migrants and asylum seekers still desire to enter the US through legal ways set by the Biden administration.
According to municipal migration affairs director Enrique Lucero, In Tijuana, Mexico, across the border from San Diego, California, 3,800 migrants from countries like Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela are waiting in shelters. In Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas, a further 3,273 migrants are staying at Senda De Vida shelters, according to pastor Hector Silva, who supervises camps. Moreover, in Matamoros, Mexico, about 4,000 migrants live in centers, protection, and dumped homes.
The waiting migrants feel “desperate,” according to Glady Cañas, who heads the nonprofit Ayudandoles a Triunfar. She said numerous have put trust in instruments like the CBP One app. It automates organizing appointments to assert asylum with border patrol.
In recent weeks, US border cities have experienced an unusual surge of people crossing into the US from Mexico. Federal authorities declared a seven-day average of more than 9,600 migrants staying along the US southern border in December, CNN said on Friday. For comparison, the seven-day standard documented on November 28 was about 6,800 encounters.
According to Cañas, three migrants fall in the Rio Grande in the Matamoros area in December. However, people continue to attempt to cross the river despite the deadly dangers. Migrants who prefer not to wait for a legal way are often overwhelmed by hope. It is highlighted by video and voice messages they receive from migrants who have been captured by US immigration authorities and have been released into American societies, she expressed.
“The migrants are only sharing the beauty, but they are not sharing the reality… that worries me,” Cañas added. However, Their options to enter the US are narrow. Since May, the US Department of Homeland Security has expelled or returned over 445,000 migrants. The news agency stated that most had traveled the U.S. southern border.
The federal government has also shut docks of entry in multiple states and reassigned personnel to transport and process migrants as it wrestles with ways to maximize its narrow resources. The Biden Administration also temporarily stopped rail operations in Eagle Pass and El Paso, but those services continued on Friday.
One group of migrants waiting in cold weather in Eagle Pass, Texas, has been granted access and processed within the past few days. Still, a senior CBP official briefed CNN Monday that the US Customs and Border Protection is not out of the woods yet from the constant border surge.
The official stated that many steps, including expanding resources, were taken to manage the agency’s challenge in Eagle Pass last week. CNN witnessed thousands of migrant families waiting outside to be transported to immigration processing facilities.
The same official said that despite the better scene in Eagle Pass, illegal crossings continue. It is being fueled by bad players who push migrants to enter the US southern border between ports of entry, including rural regions of Arizona.
CNN has also discovered large groups of migrants continue to reach the border by train. According to Sister Isabel Turcios, the director of a migrant shelter in Piedras Negras, “Mexico – across the border from Eagle Pass – about 1,000 migrants arrived by train Monday. She said that violence in the streets of Piedras Negras temporarily stopped large groups of migrants from crossing into the US Monday.”
On Wednesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and President Biden’s Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall in Mexico City.