Authorities evict Venezuelan migrants from camp in Ciudad Juárez

about 400 Venezuelan migrants were evicted this Sunday from the camp they set up on the edge of the Rio Grande, in Juarez Citybordering the United States, found AFP.

“They came with a megaphone saying that we had to evacuate, that we had to leave and later they broke down the tents, they broke down the tents of some comrades,” Michael, one of the migrants from the South American country, told AFP.

Dozens of riot police and members of the National Guard They participated in the operation, who struggled at times with the migrants, who had occupied the tents since the end of October, confirmed the AFP.

The local government argued that the operation responded to an opinion prepared by Civil Protection, which warned of the risk of fire due to the bonfires, which the migrants light in the low temperatures near their plastic tents.

The Government of Ciudad Juárez said in the statement that “close to 500 migrants were transferred to the different shelters in the city,” but the local office of the State Population Council told AFP that only 70 agreed to go to two shelters, while the The rest went to hotels and some relocated to other parts of the city in the open.

The operation is recorded after USA lifts an immigration restriction.

On November 15, US Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the Title 42applied by the Donald Trump government as an anti-covid measure, was used against migrants in an “arbitrary and capricious” way to block their asylum applications.

By request of Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the same judge later granted the Joe Biden government five weeks to prepare for a feared avalanche of migrants, the vast majority of whom are Latin Americans.

The ruling will take effect on December 21 at midnight.

The number of Venezuelans, Cubans or Nicaraguans trying to cross the land border of the United States has increased by 149% compared to October 2021, while that of those coming from Mexico and northern Central America has dropped 12% since that date, according to official data.

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