CBP officers are driving groups 70 miles east of San Diego to wait for their asylum claims to be processed, according to the mutual aid group Border Kindness.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are driving groups of migrants 70 miles east of San Diego to wait for their asylum claims to be processed off a dirt road in the desert near Jacumba Hot Springs, according to the mutual aid group Border Kindness.Migrants dropped off and told to wait in the desert near Jacumba in far East Couty are forced to create shelter from the harsh sun out of the brush.
“You don't have anything to help you,” said Victoria Vazquez, a water drop route leader with Border Kindness. “There’s absolutely nothing.”The group has been providing food, water and clothing to migrants here in the desert since Saturday morning,Matthew BowlerThe group Border Kindness gives out food, water and clothes to the migrants forced to wait in the desert near Jacumba in the far East County on Sept. 19, 2023.
Vazquez said the migrants were dropped off with nothing and left to create their own shelter. The daytime temperatures here hover around 90 degrees, dipping to the low 50s overnight.Brazilian migrant Adrian Garcia Fejeda said he hoped to meet up with his wife in New York and find work.Six friends from Cuba all wait together in for their asylum claims to be processed in the desert near Jacumba in far East County on Sept. 19, 2023.
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