CIUDAD JUÁREZ (EFE).— In addition to low-income migrants, Mexico’s border with the United States receives more and more professionals from South America who seek to cross at all costs given the economic situation and violence in their countries of origin.
An example of this, in Ciudad Juárez, is the Colombian businesswoman Yésica Bordae, who closed her company due to a change in regulation and, when she still had financial resources, tried to get a visa to go to the United States, but they denied it, so who embarked on the illegal migratory route.
“I asked for my visa and they denied it. For what reason? I don’t know, because I had all the documentation up to date, company banking documents, at that time I had the possibility of paying for a visa and they denied it because they wanted to, they didn’t agree with me,” said the woman, who following spending three years in Spain arrived in Juárez with his daughter.
On the border between Juárez and El Paso, it crossed the barbed wire that Texas Governor Gregg Abott placed last year and reached the wall, but the Texas National Guard returned it through the same hole through which it entered.
“They literally took me away by force. They took me out with the girl, they didn’t care that the girl was hungry, that the girl was sick from the heat, because the girl vomited. They took me out the same way I went in,” she said.
More restrictions
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) highlighted the record of irregular migration in Mexico in 2023, with more than 782,000 undocumented immigrants detected, although it observed a decrease in the flow on the border with the United States in January of this year.
Given these figures, immigration controls have increased on the border with Texas, where the governor raised the barricade, deployed the National Guard and refuses to remove the barbed wire despite a ruling by the United States Supreme Court.
“The Texas Guard took us out, they were already there on the wall. Three armed men took me out,” he said.
The woman assured that she migrated because the Colombian Government’s policies affect the companies.
“I had a social security company, but the president (Gustavo Petro) put an end to that, right now he does not allow third parties to pay people’s social security but it has to be from a company directly, he put an end to everything,” he narrated.
Violence in their countries
Alonso Ramírez Torres is a dentist who came to Juárez from Lima, Peru, where he fled extortion. His wife and one of his children got in, but the second got stuck and the family is now divided.
“I am a dentist and I had extortion problems in my country. Unfortunately, the authorities do nothing more than receive your complaint and leave you to fate,” said the dentist.
He said that he suffered threats from criminals who came to his house, shot at his car, stole things and the only option he had was to sell what he had and leave the country with his entire family.
“Throughout the entire trip things have been the worst for us, they have robbed us. Here in Mexico, I can say that there is no authority that defends the rights of the people who support us.”
“It is the same police that hands us over to the cartels, it is the same (people from the National Institute of) Migration that hands us over and we suffer,” he added while walking on the side of the Rio Grande.
SpaceChihuahua
Migrants open their space in Chihuahua waiting to obtain resources to continue
Camp
Located on Juan Pablo II Boulevard, in the south of Chihuahua capital, the stranded migrant camp has more than 3 thousand people who remain waiting to obtain resources to reach Ciudad Juárez and continue on their way to the United States.
main fear
The migrants say that their main fear is being attacked on the way from Chihuahua to Ciudad Juárez, so they decided to settle temporarily where they can find resources.
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2024-04-22 06:58:34
