MATAMOROS.- For two years it was one of the most powerful reminders of the humanitarian crisis who had the commitment of the former president Donald Trump to keep the migrants outside U.S.
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A camp in Matamoros, where hundreds of migrants remained in deplorable conditions, subjected to a politics which required them to stay in Mexico until the date of their hearing in an immigration court in the US, was dismantled.
Defenders of migrants rated the situation as a humanitarian crisis a few meters from the frontera sure of U.S.
However the President Joe Biden ended the politics of the era Trump, informally known as “Stay in Mexico“and began the process of allowing entry to the migrants that they had been subject to it.
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The camp of Matamoros was one of the many places where migrants were forced to stay and it became an emblem of the politics anti-immigrant of Trump.
Biden’s wife, Jill, visited the camp during last year’s presidential campaign to witness first-hand the difficult conditions in which the migrants.
“If I hadn’t been this camp, I think I would never have finished the MPP“, He said Oscar Borjas, an applicant for asylum Honduran and one of the last remaining residents in the place.
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Like hundreds of applicants for asylum expelled from U.S to this crime-ridden city, Borjas began to sleep out of fear and need near the international bridge that crosses the Rio Grande, but also because he and others migrants they wanted to make visible the human cost of the program MPP.
We were there for them to see us that we are, that it was not fair what they did to us
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Since 2019, the measure pushed more than 65,000 migrants back to Mexico while their cases of asylum they were complicated in the American courts. Most gave up waiting and left Mexico. Thousands more crowded into shelters or apartments, disappearing from sight.
But in Matamoros, with scarce resources for migrants, the families they chose to sleep in the square at the foot of the bridge.
“We say ‘we unite’ and that’s where the camp of Matamoros“, says the asylee Honduran Josué Cornejo, who was returned to Matamoros together with his wife and children in August 2019.
END OF THE NIGHTMARE
The Department of National security reported that the Biden administration, in partnership with international organizations, completed the registration of people staying at the camp.
“We are no longer registering people in the camp of Matamoros and no one who reaches the camp You will have access to this tiered program through your physical presence there, “said a spokesman for the Department of National security.
A small number of people who remained in the camp have been relocated to other locations identified by our international organization partners that provide greater protection than the informal camp
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Until now, Tuesday, March 9, U.S had processed more than 700 people at the port of entry in Brownsville. The Biden administration estimates that about 25,000 migrants they still have active cases under the program.
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The migrants must take the covid-19 test before entering U.S.
The politics of “Stay in Mexico“, which came into effect in January 2019, was an unprecedented departure from previous protocols, which allowed the entry of migrants as they waited for their immigration hearings in U.S.
The administration Trump installed makeshift courtrooms in Brownsville, just opposite Matamoros, for the ones migrants attend their court hearings, resulting in many staying in the camp while they waited for their court date.
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Democratic lawmakers launched investigations into the politics and visited the camp, condemning the administration Trump for expelling the migrants, including families and children, back to the deteriorating conditions at the site. In some cases, the situation on the ground caused children to be separated from their families to try to enter U.S.
Federal authorities reported Sunday afternoon that on Saturday the camp in that border city, after the departure of the last 72 people who inhabited it since 2019.
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