To the United States via water and bridge

To the United States via water and bridge

The Biden administration is careful to avoid the word “crisis”, but the increase in the number of immigrants trying to cross the southern border of the United States has not been greater than in the first year of Biden’s presidency.


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There are tens of thousands, millions of immigrants on the Mexican side of Rio Grande. Corona infection has long made the border impenetrable. But this year is as porous as ever.


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For example, families, but especially single men, cross the Rio Grande and then, usually, end up in Texas. Incidentally, border police officers say they also see people moving back and forth.


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Immigrants on the International Bridge between the United States and Mexico in Del Rio, Texas.


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Del Rio, Texas, is located across the Mexican city of Acuna. To enter the United States, visitors and immigrants must cross the International Bridge.


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They fall down at the foot of the international bridge and are waiting for the process of their asylum application to begin – one of the problems in the migration system.


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In Del Rio, in central South Texas, the US media reports that mainly Haitians are now crossing the border.


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They traveled to the United States via South and Central America.


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They mark their own space on the carpets and cardboard boxes where they are trying to run a house for something.


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They wash themselves, their clothes and their cutlery in the river.


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This is just a small part of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have crossed the southern border illegally in the first year of President Biden’s terminal.


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The lucky ones can stay in the shade of the bridge. The unlucky ones have to find another way to get through the days with temperatures up to 38 degrees Celsius.


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Occasionally tents and huts arise.


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Most immigrants are repatriated on the basis of corona infection. But this week, a federal judge overturned a law brought in by President Trump that would send immigrants across the border on public health grounds.


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The Biden administration has been struggling with the large number of immigrants on its southern border since its inception. In fact, Biden is pursuing Trump’s regulatory policies. But he is also looking for ways to turn the patchwork of repressive measures into a more orderly and more restrictive policy.


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Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to address the root causes of migration from Central America, but it has not yet happened properly, meanwhile the asylum system is overeating and overworked.


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