Immigrants, who preferred to remain anonymous to the media, said that they have the right to be among the new plans of the US government to grant 24,000 visas and direct access to the United States by air, for which they are taking various actions.
About 50 Venezuelans closed the new bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, the day before to protest the US government’s deportation last Thursday from Brownsville, Texas and demanded that they be allowed to return to continue the humanitarian asylum process.
Yesterday also 14 Venezuelans arrived in Mexico City who confirmed their expulsion from Texas on the same day (Wednesday) to sign an agreement between the US and Mexican governments to stop the flow of citizens from the Bolivarian country to the United States.
In the facilities of the Secretariat for Integration and Social Welfare in Mexico City, where they are receiving assistance, they reported that without any explanation they were expelled by the immigration service of the neighboring country across the border with Piedras Negras, where Mexican immigration agents were already waiting for them. They were then taken by truck to an immigration center in Morelia, Michoacan, where a lawyer recommended traveling to the country’s capital to seek support. The Mexican government gave them 20 days to leave the national territory voluntarily, as those affected denounced.
The state’s immigration delegate, Segismundo Dorian Gonzalez, arrived at the scene to persuade the protesters to withdraw the siege, which had lasted nearly five hours.
Immigrants accused Texas Governor Greg Abbott of promoting illegal deportations of those who sought asylum on humanitarian grounds.
Pro-immigrant activists from the Texas Valley persuaded opponents to resume their applications for humanitarian asylum in Mexico, due to which some agreed to voluntarily move to the country’s capital to process passports and documents at the Venezuelan embassy.
In Chihuahua, the El Paso, Texas sector border patrol reportedly expelled 100 Venezuelans across the border with Ciudad Juárez between Thursday and today, after they were denied asylum by applying health standard 42.
The mayor of Ciudad Juárez, Cruz Perez Cuellar, confirmed that the National Institute of Migration has received hundreds of Venezuelans on the Paso del Norte International Bridge, and that “it will be necessary to create additional spaces to receive them.”
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