As President Biden visits El Paso, thousands of people who fled oppressive countries are marooned in Mexico in the wake of his expansion of a Trump-era policy.
Sitting on train tracks a few hundred feet south of the U.S. border, Nathalie Gonzalez, 23, pulled her 4-year-old daughter a little closer. Night was coming. She had no idea where they would sleep.
Their home countries were simply too unstable or too politically at odds with the United States for agents to coordinate mass deportations. Biden also announced a new pathway to legal entry for people from the four countries, saying that as many as 30,000 of them per month would be allowed into the U.S. if they applied via an online application from their home country, found a U.S.-based sponsor, passed a rigorous background check and purchased a plane ticket.
Immigrants keep warm by a fire at dawn after spending a night alongside the U.S.-Mexico border fence in the El Paso area on Dec. 22, 2022. While the new guidelines may relieve stress on American communities, they are already putting pressure on Mexican cities.Inside a Mexican government office underneath a bridge that connects El Paso to Ciudad Juarez, Enrique Valenzuela stood before a crowd of bedraggled migrants who had recently been deported from the U.S. and told them a difficult truth.Migrants congregate on the banks of the Rio Grande at the U.S. border with Mexico on Dec.
When one of the recent returnees asked about how to find a place to stay, Valenzuela said there were shelters.“We already filled up?” he said, with a look of incredulity.
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