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Migrants, many of them Haitian, cross the Rio Grande from Mexico heading towards the US border city of Del Rio, as Texas State Troopers watch on. Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano had told reporters there were over 14,000 migrants "waiting to be detained." Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano had told reporters there were over 14,000 migrants "waiting to be detained."
Men, women and children walk on the US side of the US-Mexico border after crossing the Rio Grande river that divides the two countries, before surrendering and being processed by US Customs and Border Protection agents. The US is readying its response to an expected surge of migrants seeking to enter as tens of thousands of people are waiting at crossing points for the end of pandemic-era rules that had forbidden virtually all asylum claims at the border. The so-called Title 42 expires overnight Thursday into Friday. IMAGES
US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday that the authorities would investigate reports that Haitian migrants in Texas may have been abused by border patrol officers on horseback. Mayorkas said the mounted officers were trying to manage the flow of hundreds of migrants crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico near Del Rio, Texas.
The Border Patrol made about 1.66 million arrests of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally since the begining of 2021, the highest annual number ever recorded in 20 years, according to figures released Friday by US Customs and Border Protection. FRANCE 24's Fanny Allard and Kethevane Gorjestani reports from the Rio Grande Region.
Migrants continue crossing between the United States and Mexico by wading through the Rio Bravo river (known as Rio Grande in the US), as the US struggles to stem a massive influx of undocumented people, many of them from Haiti. IMAGES
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
The US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, says that Venezuelans attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico will not be allowed in, and will be returned to Mexico. Last week, Washington and Mexico City announced an agreement that would allow 24,000 Venezuelans to enter the United States if they can prove they have sponsorship, and only if they fly into the country. The deal mirrors a controversial push by former president Donald Trump to keep Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence inside Mexico while their claims are processed.
Ciudad Juárez, Oct 17 (EFE).- Mexican and American activists gathered on Sunday at the border to clean up the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo), contaminated for weeks by sewage spill from a company in El Paso, Texas. More than 500 members of Rotary clubs and volunteers from both sides of the border joined the project "Together let's clean the Rio Bravo", which occurred simultaneously in the Mexican border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Piedras Negras, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros. (Camera: RAÚL MORALES). SHOT LIST: VOLUNTEERS CLEAN UP RIO GRANDE AT THE MEXICO-US BORDER, IN CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO.
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