by the El Reportero’s wire services
Roberta Jacobson and Juan González, advisers to Joe Biden, meet in Mexico City with the Foreign Ministry and immigration authorities to evaluate the growing phenomenon on the northern and southern borders and the measures to curb the migratory phenomenon. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted on Tuesday that Mexico “is not a colony” of anyone, questioned whether the visit to the country by several advisers of his US counterpart, Joe Biden, is to supervise actions to stop the wave of immigration. “We do not accept supervisory visits. If we are not a colony, we are not a protectorate. Mexico is an independent and sovereign country, “said the president during his morning press conference from the National Palace, and recalled that the meeting between officials is due to a visit on migration and security issues.https://www.efe. com/efe/usa/inmigracion/tension-en-la-fronterade-mexico-por-el-flujomigratorio-y-politicaseeuu/50000098-4490779. Tension on the Mexican border due to the migratory flow and US policies Tension, despair and uncertainty are perceived along the Mexican border due to the increase in the flow of migrants and the new policies of the US government of Joe Biden, which
on Wednesday denied that there is a “migratory crisis.” In Tijuana, the largest city on Mexico’s northern border, confusion reigns in a camp with 1,500 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and Africa, among whom there are 300 children, 50 babies and 10 pregnant women waiting to cross. To united states. The migrants denounced that they are in camping houses without toilets or spaces for personal hygiene, with little surveillance from
the Tijuana Municipal Police. “We are not going to go to a shelter until they give us an answer,” said asylum seekers from the El Chaparral camp, who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of their safety. Biden resumed on February 19 the processing of 25,000 asylum seekers returned to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), known as “Remain in Mexico”, established by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021).