Mexico: Migrants try to force their way into the US

Hundreds of Latin American migrants tried to reach the United States from the Mexican city of Matamoros (northeast) on Monday after a strong storm destroyed their camp at the border, local media reported.

This is the first border incident of this magnitude since “Title 42” ended on May 11.

In particular, it has been replaced by a new system of restrictions on the right to asylum.

Darley Mercado of Venezuela, who was traveling with her family, told reporters they decided to cross after an afternoon storm destroyed their makeshift tents.

They made it to the end of the bridge, but ran into US agents with shields. “My husband asked them if they didn’t have wives or children, but the guards said no and pushed us away,” he said when he returned to the region.Mexican.

According to local media, hundreds of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, Hondurans and Salvadorans, tried to enter the United States this way.

In videos posted on social media, migrants can be seen advancing in groups, hustling and shouting, on a narrow covered bridge leading to Brownsville, Texas.

Some were carrying small children, others were accompanied by young men whom they tried to protect with their bodies.

Mexican officials tried to close the crossing, but were outnumbered.

Last Friday, in another neighboring city of Nuevo Laredo, Texas, an international bridge had to be closed after a group of Russians tried to force their way across. America.

Since the end of Title 42, immigrants who cross the border illegally can be sent back to their home country and punished.

Arrivals at the border by undocumented foreigners, mostly Venezuelans, have declined in recent weeks, officials said, as they began again before May.

But thousands of migrants are stranded at the Mexican border hoping to get a meeting with US immigration so they can enter the US and seek asylum there.