Barbed wire for anyone who tries to cross the border crossing between Mexico and the United States. US forces reinforce the El Paso town limits with barbed wire to prevent migrants from finding alternate paths. This reinforcement is accompanied by the expansion of the controversial Title 42, announced by President Joe Biden.
The image has generated further anguish among the hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the United States.
“We are on the streets trying to survive and seeing what we can do, some work permit,” said 35-year-old Cuban migrant Jimmy Romero.
The US president, who was visiting El Paso this Monday, announced that Title 42 will now allow people who request asylum in their country to be immediately rejected. As well as the fast-track expulsion to Mexico of some 30,000 Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans every month.
Those who wish to apply for asylum must do so in their country of origin, have a sponsor and undergo a background check.
Discontent at the UN over Biden’s heavy hand
Washington’s new immigration plan raised the alarms of the UN High Commissioner, Volker Turk, who warned that the expansion of Title 42 risks undermining the basic foundations of international law on human rights and refugees.
“The right to seek asylum is a human right, regardless of a person’s origin, immigration status or how they arrived at an international border,” Turk said.
The high commissioner reiterated his call for the rights of refugees and migrants to be respected and protected at international borders.
“We hear a lot about migration crises, but in reality it is the migrants who are often truly in crisis,” he added.
The White House has argued that the tightening of measures is aimed at curbing the record number of migrants and asylum seekers arriving after epic, and often dangerous, journeys organized by people smugglers.
Likewise, the Biden Administration launched an Internet appointment system on Thursday as the only way for migrants to obtain exceptions to the asylum limits imposed by the regulations, decreed after the pandemic.
Mexico affirms that “there was no discrepancy” at the North American Summit
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed this Thursday that “there was no discrepancy” with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, nor with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at the North American Leaders Summit.
His statements come after hosting the “Three Amigos” summit with Biden and Trudeau from Monday to Wednesday, with whom he addressed controversial issues such as migration.
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