Individuals, families, children and the elderly – they all stand in an eternal queue to enter the USA via the border town of El Paso. Last weekend, nearly 7,500 people tried to cross the border. And the number is expected to increase. – The federal authorities have informed me that the number could increase to over 6,000 every day, says the mayor of the city, Oscar Leeser. The same day that the mayor declared a state of emergency, these people sat and waited outside a church, hoping to get a place to sleep for the night. Photo: JOHN MOORE / AFPThe same day that the mayor declared a state of emergency, these people sat and waited outside a church, hoping to get a place to sleep for the night. Photo: JOHN MOORE / AFP On Wednesday, the law “Title 42” will be repealed and the opportunity to apply for asylum in the USA will become easier. In 2022 alone, the law has been used more than 2.2 million times to reject migrants and asylum seekers at the border, figures from the US border police show. What is “Title 42”? A law created by the health authorities under Trump in 2020 Was created due to the corona pandemic The law repeals normal rules at the border into the USA The most important thing about the law is that migrants can be rejected on the spot and then be deported Title 42 has been enforced more than 2.2 million times Since 2020, the Act has been strongly criticized from several quarters. A group of migrants has also sued the United States for the law and believes it is not legally tenable State of emergency The mayor declared a state of emergency in the city on Saturday evening, writes the Texas Tribune newspaper. The reason is that several hundred migrants have camped along the street and that several have been arrested. The local hostels are overcrowded and many are forced to sleep outside. – We want to ensure that people are treated with respect. We want to make sure that everyone is safe. This is not how we want to treat people, says Leeser in a press release. Several of the migrants have to find temporary places to sleep. Here lies a migrant from Nicaragua at a bus station. Photo: JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ / Reuters Leeser hopes the declaration will give the authorities in the city the necessary resources and the opportunity to provide shelter for the migrants. He also hopes the state will send more money. The weather forecast for the next week shows minus degrees in the southern city, and the mayor is worried about those who have to sleep outside. – I have said all along that I would declare a state of emergency if necessary to ensure the safety of the residents of the city and those who wish to apply for asylum. – Humanitarian crisis – Grensebyane is facing a humanitarian crisis. They do not have the funds needed to cope with the enormous influx of migrants, says state senator César J. Blanco. He says the state office will do everything they can to help the border town, which has seen an increase in the number of migrants since 2020. For a long time, fewer migrants came from Mexico to the United States, but the trend reversed about two years ago, writes the New York Times. A family from Venezuela photographed while crossing the Rio Grande river on the way into the USA. Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFPA family from Venezuela photographed while crossing the Rio Grande river on the way into the USA. Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP Then a combination of a lack of power and a worse economy in the populous republic sent several of the inhabitants north. The corona pandemic also helped to increase the economic differences in the country. 3.8 million people were quickly pushed into poverty. Several die in the attempt At the same time as many try to enter the United States legally, there are those who choose another way into the country. In July, a truck train was abandoned in the middle of the sun on a country road in Veracruz, Mexico. Inside the container, people smugglers had kept around 400 people. They came from southern countries such as Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and El Salvador, among others. The incident took place just one month after at least 53 migrants died when a semi-trailer overturned on the way to the United States. More than 100 people were found inside the trailer. American authorities also write that around 8,000 people have lost their lives trying to cross the border between Mexico and the USA since 1998. Long walks in the desert, extreme temperatures and drowning were the main causes of death. Several experts believe the death toll has increased precisely because of Title 42, which made it more difficult to enter the country, writes CNN.
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