Border crossings on pace for two-decade high as smugglers exploit high hopes for Biden
LA TimesAs dusk closed in on the Texas border with Mexico, Melania Rivera and her 3-year-old twin boys climbed up the banks of the Rio Grande, at last setting foot in the United States. “A lot of them think that now that Trump is gone, if they arrive with children it will be easy to cross into the United States,” said Gabriel Romero, a Franciscan priest who runs a shelter in southern Mexico that assisted about 6,000 migrants during January and February — compared with 4,000 all of last year. Asylum seekers wait to be processed outside Penitas, Texas, on Wednesday after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Strict immigration policies were a Trump hallmark, such as a program known as “Remain in Mexico” that forced 70,000 asylum seekers to wait in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and other Mexican border cities while their cases wound through U.S. courts. “There’s a lot of violence in my country,” Michelle said after following a handwritten sign posted by border agents near the river that said “asylum” until she encountered a convoy of local constables. But they say the change in Tamaulipas has given them little choice but to allow some families with children into the U.S. “The president helped us,” said Luis Enrique Rodriguez Villeda, a 31-year-old from Guatemala who crossed from Tamaulipas into Texas on a plastic raft last week with his 2-year-old daughter, Ariana.
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