From the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to San Diego and Tijuana, many migrants gathered along some sections of the U.S.-Mexico border were left questioning when or whether they would cross into the United States to seek asylum once pandemic-related restrictions known as Title 42 ended.
Some migrants who had travelled from Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Central America feared that it could be harder for them to stay on U.S. soil with the restrictions lifted.Aylin Guevara, 45, hurried her steps as she walked through the scorching desert of Ciudad Juarez toward the border.
"Not anymore, it's over," he told them in a firm voice, instructing them to go to bridges 10 miles to their left or right.Maria Jose Duran, a 24-year-old student from Venezuela, was on the verge of tears as she sat on a riverbank in Matamoros, Mexico. From the Mexico side, Texas National Guard members could be seen reinforcing another stretch of wire to keep migrants out.
A Salvadoran man who gave his name as David moved away from the border and back into Ciudad Juarez for fear of being deported.Authorities in the remote desert community of Yuma, Arizona, expressed alarm after the average daily number of migrant arrivals grew this week from 300 to 1,000. "The question keeps coming up: `What now?' I've been asking that question for two years, with no answers," Nicholls said. "We are at a situation we've never been at before."Hundreds of migrants who waited for days for a chance to apply for asylum lined up Thursday along the towering steel bollards separating Tijuana from San Diego.
"We'll put our best foot forward and approach this with every resource available," said Teresa Cavendish, executive director of the Tucson shelter Casa Alitas, the state's largest. "But it may not be enough."
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