Some are welcomed, most turned away, as haphazard immigration policies play out along the border
Paradoxical scenes play out daily along this remote stretch of the Texas-Mexico border from Ojinaga to Del Rio and Eagle Pass.
A Texas Department of Public safety trooper helps Belkis Salas of Venezuela out of the Rio Grande near Del Rio on Friday, April 30, 2021. Salas struggled to cross the river, falling halfway through and being pulled up by her son-in-law and a smuggler. Many Venezuelans are being welcomed for asylum processing on one part of the border while Central Americans are being quickly expelled on other parts of the border.(Jessica Phelps / San Antonio Express-News)
This is what Joe Biden is inviting in through our borders
Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 billion and $29 billion annually from drug sales in the US.
According to a July 2020 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, about 125,000-150,000 homicides were organized crime-related from 2006 to 2018.
CNN listed the fast drug facts (see below) of the drug cartels. These are the criminals that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are inviting into the country. For example, the CJNG cartel is the cannibal cartel and thousands of them live in the U.S. Part of their initiation is to eat their victims.
This is what the Biden administration is bringing into the country.
Late at night, the US is expelling migrants back into dangerous Mexico border cities Dianne Solis and Alfredo Corchado
REYNOSA, Mexico Juan Felipe Rodriguez slouched with his back against the wall of the Mexican government building at the international bridge across the Rio Grande. His 7-year-old son still slumbered under a Mylar blanket on the cement next to him.
After traveling north from Guatemala, they crossed into the United States only to soon find themselves rapidly expelled back into Mexico. They arrived at this point of misery at 1 a.m., he said, in a border city he didn’t know, save for its reputation for danger.
Late at night, the U.S. is expelling migrants back into dangerous Mexico border cities
“These people are deliberately put in harm’s way,” says a Mexican shelter director.
A migrant woman brushes her hair as she and other expelled migrants sit at a plaza near the international bridge leading into the Mexican border city of Reynosa on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The U.S. continues to expel migrants under Title 42 a pandemic-related public order still in place and left over from the Trump administration.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
REYNOSA, Mexico Juan Felipe Rodriguez slouched with his back against the wall of the Mexican government building at the international bridge across the Rio Grande. His 7-year-old son still slumbered under a Mylar blanket on the cement next to him.
U.S.-Mexico border travel restrictions due to Covid-19 extended through May 21
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Cars crossing the border into Mexico from the U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC Travel restrictions across the U.S.-Mexico border have now been extended through at least May 21, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The border crossing limitations for non-essential travel, which have been in place throughout the pandemic to help slow the spread of Covid-19, have now been extended for yet another month.
The closure was set to expire on April 21. However, the CBP website now reads: The Department of Homeland Security extended the Notification of Temporary Travel Restrictions Applicable to Land Ports of Entry and Ferries Service between the United States, Canada and the respective notification for Mexico.