As the US’s pandemic migration restrictions ended on Thursday, the hopes of those waiting at the border faded
The troops in camouflage, holding their rifles across their bodies in an intimidating stance, were not allowing him or any other migrants to approach the gate to request asylum.
“This was my last try. I’ll have to find a job in Juárez to save for a ticket back home, and return defeated,” Manzano said. In an aerial view, migrants sort used clothing and blankets into dumpsters before being processed to make asylum claims at a makeshift migrant camp on 11 May in El Paso, Texas.Frustrated, he fought back tears as he recalled the two times he previously crossed the US border with Mexico in the last month without permission and was expelled back to Mexico by the authorities.
When the clock struck 10pm local time, midnight on the US east coast, the exact moment Title 42 expired, the atmosphere at the gate in the tall border barrier remained tensely silent. “They’re not letting us in, I don’t know why,” said Oscar Adrián Izaguirre Brito, 20, a mechanic from Caracas, Venezuela.
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