Posted on 12/24/2019 11:30:54 AM PST by bgill
Freezing overnight temperatures and growing frustration over long waits to get an initial interview with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in El Paso are to blame, Mexican officials and activists told Border Report.
The camps fashioned out of blue tarps and black plastic sheets sprung up in September south of the Paso del Norte and Zaragoza international bridges, as well as in a park near the Bridge of the Americas. The camps at one point held up to 3,000 people, mostly families, but as of Monday, only about 600 remained, according to Juarez police.
Activists in El Paso who have been visiting the camps in Juarez said they are saddened but not surprised that many asylum seekers are giving up.
“It was very obvious that this Administration did not intend to help these asylum seekers or even take their petitions,” said Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
Excellent. Tell all your friends when you go home. Don’t try to wander into the US thinking you’ll be given tons of free stuff paid for by the American taxpayer. You’ll just end up stuck and freezing in a tent in Northern Mexico.
I’m sure Joe Biden would take them in... well, at least the young girls.
Deport ALL illegal aliens. Seize their ill-gotten assets . OUT!!! Merry Christmas !
Mexicans have themselves to make Mexico great again. Nobody else can do it for them.
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