Facing Trump’s asylum limits, refugees from as far as Africa languish in a Mexican camp
LA TimesA group of roughly 100 Haitians, Africans and South Americans cross the Rio Grande, just shallow enough for adults to wade despite an overnight storm. “Those of us who have come from Africa, especially from Cameroon, what we have gone through, I’m sure we will continue to wait here, even if it’s a year,” he said. “It’s just fear.” Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio sector have arrested some 40,000 people already this year, more than double last year’s total. Del Rio, like Acuña, doesn’t have a migrant shelter, or many transportation options — and the city wants to keep it that way, said Tiffany Zook, secretary of the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition. “People give money to officials to look the other way as many people cross the river … if you have money, you can manipulate the process.” Later, familiar music rose above the noisy camp — Bernard playing “Amazing Grace.” ‘I want to save my family’ Some 400 miles up the river in Juarez, across from El Paso, Kabuya Mutombo spent hours in the late June sun on his phone, tethered to an electrical strip in the courtyard of the Buen Pastor shelter.
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