STORY – The number of people apprehended at the US-Mexico border has never been higher, despite harsh and dangerous conditions.
Mexico City
Asphyxiated, suffocated, while the temperature exceeded 40°C. This is how 53 people lost their lives, locked in the trailer of a truck, on June 27, in San Antonio (Texas). These migrants had placed their dream of a future in the United States in the hands of smugglers; they will have traveled only 260 kilometers in the country from the Mexican border, before dying.
What local newspapers call “the tragedy of San Antonio” is “a consequence of the tightening of the migration policy”, denounces José Andrés Sumano Rodriguez, professor at the University of the northern border, in Mexico.
“The only solution, appeal to organized crime”
For more than two years, people wishing to immigrate to the United States have had no means of doing so legally because of Title 42. This provision of American law dating from World War II prohibits people from a country where actively circulating a virus to enter the United States. This law was used by Donald Trump from 2020 to prevent…
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