Great chaos: Thousands of migrants pile up on the US-Mexico border
42, which facilitates the deportation of irregular immigrants in the US It has been reported that more than 10 thousand irregular immigrants wait at the Mexican border hours before the application of the “Article” ends.
According to the BBC report, El Paso, Texas Mayor Oscar Leeser, referring to the city’s two-day Border Security Fair, said: “We’ve never seen anything like this before, we can’t go on like this.” forever. Something has to change,” he said. Leeser stated that more than 10,000 irregular migrants have arrived at the border in the last 24 hours and that these people are waiting for article 42 to be lifted so they can enter the country by lining up at the border.
Texas Department of Public Safety district manager Joe Sanchez likened the situation at the border to a stampede at a football game, calling it “total chaos.”
‘150 THOUSAND MIGRANTS WAIT TO ENTER THE USA’
The art. 42°. The “Article” regulation was used to deport to Mexico irregular migrants seeking humanitarian protection after being rejected.
The current Joe Biden administration in the US had also decided to continue the practice with the promise of designing a “humane asylum system”.
Immigrants flock to the United States border crossing dangerous paths.
There were allegations in the US media that approximately 150,000 irregular migrants in the regions near the border with Mexico were awaiting the removal of Article 42, which facilitates deportation in order to enter the country.
Republicans accuse the Biden administration of failing to take adequate action on issues such as illegal immigration, human and drug trafficking, while some Democrats accuse Biden of implementing “anti-immigration” policies comparable to those of the Trump era.
SOLDIERS SENT TO THE BORDER
In the United States “42. Due to the fact that the authorization for the Covid-19 period, known as the “Article”, expires as of May 11, the measures for irregular migrants at the southern border were tightened. 1,100 new employees were recruited to expedite the paperwork and interview processes for immigrants caught up in the border patrol.
The US Department of Homeland Security also announced that it will deploy 1,500 troops to the country’s southern border on May 2 to support internal immigration authorities as Article 42 will expire.
National Security Minister Alejandro Majorkas said that the end of Article 42 does not mean “open borders.” (AA)