A week before the U.S. is expected to lift the Covid-era border restriction known as Title 42, a growing number of migrants are waiting in limbo — and posing a significant challenge for the Biden administration as it tries to hold off the influx.
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — In a city long ravaged by cartel violence, a makeshift tent camp has sprung up right next to a migrant detention centerNow boarded up, it’s a haunting reminder of how dangerous this humanitarian crisis is.
He said he’d almost been assaulted trying to cross Mexico — and was considering crossing into the U.S. with his wife and 2-year-old son before next week. "Because I have faith in God that he’s going to help me," he said in his native Spanish."And he knows that I’m going for opportunity, for good, not bad. I’m not going to cause harm. I’m going to work. To give my kids a better future ahead."
Weeks ago, the governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua had said up to 35,000 migrants were in Juárez, a number that was later disputed by the Juárez’s mayor.
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