A group of about 800 to 1,000 migrants, part of a caravan of people mainly from Nicaragua, crossed en masse into the U.S. at El Paso, among the largest single crossings along the West Texas border in recent years.
December 12, 2022, 8:26 PMMigrants, mostly from Nicaragua, cross the border at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents and request asylum in El Paso, Texas, Dec. 11, 2022.
“A very large number of people arrived — a huge, huge number,” said Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit that provides shelter to asylum-seekers after they have been processed and released by U.S. authorities.On Monday, migrants, most of them from Nicaragua, could be seen huddling on street corners or waiting for the bus station to open.
The scenes provided a potential window into the situation that border authorities have been bracing for as early as next week, when a pandemic health policy known as Title 42 is set to expire. The policy, put in place by the Trump administration and continued under President Joe Biden under a court order, has allowed U.S. authorities to rapidly expel migrants, even those seeking asylum, in order to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The government in the Mexican state of Chihuahua had bused a caravan of about 1,100 migrants into Juárez on Sunday afternoon, González said. The buses, about 19 of them, were paid for by the Mexican government, he said, which had reasoned that the migrants would have walked north anyway and provided a police escort to keep them safe.
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