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Usa, children’s emergency on the southern border. “But we won’t put them back in the cells”

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The predicted human wave has arrived. In the last month alone, 100,441 entries were registered in Texas: the highest figure since June 2019, when Donald Trump had just closed the southern borders of the United States. Now the president is Joe Biden who has decided to cancel the so-called MPP, an acronym for Migrants Protection Protocol, the Migrant Control Program that divided children from parents. A decision that raised hopes.

Tens of thousands set off. From Honduras, from El Salvador, from Guatemala. They call it the “Triangle of Death”. Violence, unemployment, poverty. Six months ago, nature was also unleashed with two hurricanes, one after the other, which brought that region to its knees. Flooded fields, flocks without food, farms and small shops submerged and lost.

Usa, migrant emergency on the border with Mexico: Biden mobilizes civil protection

by our correspondent Federico Rampini


Mexico’s borders with the United States remain closed. But they are not armored, there are some gates that allow children to pass alone and those under six accompanied by a parent. A light in the dark. Fathers and mothers want to exploit it, prepare their children and send them north. They have more chances to go to the other side where an uncle, a cousin, grandparents already transplanted to the US are waiting for them.

The Secretary of National Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, had raised the alarm last week: there is a risk of collapse at the borders, everything suggests the largest migratory wave of the last 20 years. It is no longer enough to reject adults and families, as we continue to do. The flow is now mostly made up of children and teenagers. They have no documents, they are exhausted, they cannot be sent back. Mayorkas yesterday accused Trump of dismantling the former border sorting system for minors that was “efficient”.

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The passage between Ciudad Juárez in Mexico and El Paso in Texas is flooded. A long line of small and very small, boys and girls, winds under the metal mesh that protects the entrance corridors. Joe Biden asks for patience. Calls not to travel but refuses to apply the infamous MPP again. Rather, an aid program must be launched immediately in the Central American “Triangle”: 4 billion dollars to stem the causes that provoke the waves of migration. “After all – the Democratic president told ABC last week – what do we do when a child only arrives at the border? Let’s do what Trump did: do we lock him in the cell? “.

The topic is very hot, it is once again an emergency. Republicans are blowing the fire, calling for new restrictive measures. And they are not alone. “Mexico is no longer able to amass all these people within the borders of its territory,” Mayorkas warned.

The American press also denies the lack of media access to the area, but the moment the authorities have made it clear that this is not a priority.

When minors pass, agents are required to report them to the Department of Health and Human Services within 72 hours. In 40 percent of cases, these are children who have a relative or a guardian in the US. But there are exceptions. The human wave is so massive that there is a risk of collapse. Many mothers with children who had crossed the bridge linking Mexico to Texas were stopped and tricked back. Discovered in some small street, hidden in the bushes in US territory, they were invited to follow the agents. They were convinced that they would go to the reception centers and wait there for the outcome of their asylum request. Only when they were left free to go did they discover the bitter truth, that they were brought back. The shopkeepers of Ciudad Juárez to whom these women had contacted tell: “They did not know where they were. They asked if it was the United States, or Guatemala, Honduras. They were completely lost. We replied that they were in Mexico. They burst into tears. They felt they had failed ”. Many sacrifices, money, narrow escapees, projects. Everything useless. America remains a dream.

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