A wave of migrants, mainly Cubans, invades Ciudad Juarez

A total of 1600 migrants, mostly Cubans, arrived last week City of Juarez wait their turn and ask for asylum in the United States, informed official sources.

Enrique Valenzuela, director of the State Council for Population and Attention to Migrants, Coespo, said that Sunday the arrival of 120 people was recorded. The total number of migrants stranded in Ciudad Juárez is 12,612, El Diario reported. speaks of a "cubanization" of the border town.

Valenzuela badured that the migrants, for most Cubans, they arrive with "federal protection" after the National Institute of Migration did not grant them a safe behavior that requires them to give up their humanitarian visa, but allows them to transit freely through the Mexican country for 20 days.

The Customs and Border Protection Bureau (CBP), located on the Paso del Norte International Bridge, has accepted Until last Sunday, 7,793 migrants sought political asylum in the United States.

However, at the Board of Directors of the Center for Comprehensive Migration Assistance (CAIM), which is based in Coespo, where the number of migrants accepted by CBP is located, you can read: "Last number entered in the morning 7,793, leaving numbers to enter". These figures refer to the Cuban citizens who made the decision, infused with the desperation of waiting in the Mexican city, to surrender to the authorities crossing the river.

Near the river you will find personal items such as toothbrushes, combs, pillows, blankets and even clothes such as shirts and pants.

The Secretary of the Interior of Mexico City, Olga Sánchez Cordero, acknowledged that "since last December, the flow of migration in Central America has been unprecedented, especially from Honduras (…) In parallel, we have seen a noticeable increase in the number of Cuban nationals who pbad through Nicaragua and then enter our country, "El Diario said in another report.

Despite the crisis, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that Mexico would not change the immigration policy, despite the US vision, which pushes the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to limit the pbadage of migrants on their territory.

"Mexico's migration policy is different from that of the United States, they are not alike and we have not at any time proposed to change our policy," Ebrard quoted El Diario as saying.

(Written by Carolina Morales-Chataing, with information from El Diario and social networks)
With information from Martí News