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Added on the 24/05/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Migrants in Mexico's Matamoros cross the Rio Grande in an attempt to enter the United States a day before the end of so-called Title 42, a set of pandemic-era restrictions that have forbidden virtually all asylum claims there in the last years. IMAGES
Mexico City, Apr 21 (EFE) (CAMERA: America Neri).- Israel Vallarta, who has been in preventive prison for 15 years for kidnapping in the Florence Cassez case, aspires to be released after the president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, ordered to review the police assembly that took him to jail.
Matamoros, Feb 19 (EFE).- Migrants stranded in the Mexican border city of Matamoros waited Friday amid joy and confusion for the reopening of asylum cases by the United States after Democrat Joe Biden took the office as the new US president.Many of the migrants, who have been waiting for a court date for months, saw with uncertainty how a website, managed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to collect their data remained inactive for hours.Despite the initial problems, it began to function normally hours later. (Camera: MARCO ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ).SHOT LIST: MIGRANTS WAIT FOR THE REOPENING OF THE ASYLUM CASES IN MATAMOROS, MEXICO.SOUND BITES: MIGRANT FROM HONDURAS, EDA ALBERTINA MALDONADO AND US REPRESENTATIVE OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATIONS:1.MIGRANT FROM HONDURAS, EDA ALBERTINA MALDONADO. - I don't know much about the process, honestly. They said that we have to do it on the website but my phone is broken right now, I just can't get in. So I don't know how it works yet. 2. US REPRESENTATIVE OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY.- I think today people able to register on the UNHCR website through their phones. By Monday we will know the names of the first 25 persons who are going to start the process.
Asylum-seekers at a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, angry over delays in processing their claims, attack the European Union asylum offices setting it on fire. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The number of migrants fleeing war and persecution in their homelands for Europe reached a record high in the first six months of the year, according to UNHCR, the United Nation’s refugee agency.In the first six months of the year to June, a total of 137,000 people arrived in Europe, an increase of 83 percent from 2014 when 75,000 people made the crossing.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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