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Tapachula, Mexico is a modern day Babel.
Story by Matthew Sedacca • Yesterday 12:41 PM
The ongoing fight for a humanitarian-focused immigration system in America.
In preparation for the end of the Trump-era pandemic policy Title 42 that expelled hundreds of migrants at the U.S. Southern border, the Biden Administration enforced
new border restrictions that have led to a lawsuit from the ACLU.
MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez is joined by Pili Tobar, Partner at Fireside Campaigns, and
Dan Restrepo, Senior Fellow at Center For American Progress, to discuss the backlash over Biden’s new restrictions, how some Republicans weaponize asylum seekers, and
what it will take to see long-term investments in America’s immigration system that
will focus on humanity.
A report this week from Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) found that between Nov. 23, 2022 and May 6, the agency’s office in the southern state of Chiapas, where Tapachula is located, gave out visas and permits to 81,245 migrants from 103 nations across the globe.
The vast majority of the migrants came to Mexico from countries in South America — Venezuela, where many migrants fled the poverty that goes hand-in-hand with
socialist rule, topped the list with a staggering 23,329 nationals.
Ecuador and Haiti followed with 14,238 and 12,986 migrants, respectively.
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But on the list of countries were 4 Swiss nationals, 39 from Kyrgyzstan, 345 people
from Afghanistan, and 738 from China. The longest journey was made by one person
from Singapore — over 10,700 miles away.
“These people also come here because they think it’s easier to go from there to the
United States…They don’t want to stay in Mexico,” said Eunice Rendon, coordinator
for Agenda Migrante, an advocacy organization for migrants in Mexico.
In Tapachula — which is less than thirty minutes from Mexico’s border with Guatemala — The Post spoke with migrants fleeing political and economic instability, who said risking their lives was worth it for a shot at a better future thousands of miles away.
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Many people fled political and economic stability on their migratory journey to Mexico.
“No one can change the situation” in China, said Zhang Zhiyuan, 68, who is a preacher
and former professor at Hefei University, who is traveling to Los Angeles where nearly
200 of his students currently live.
Sweating through a wrinkled yellow shirt in the humid 81-degree heat, Zhang and his wife, Luo Min, 43, recalled being “persecuted” also by the Communist Chinese government back home in Shanghai. “In China there is hardship. People work harder and harder, but there is no freedom of speech, no religious speech,” Luo said.
Noting that they sold their house to afford their multi-continental trip and planned
on applying for asylum in the United States. Mexico’s National Institute of Migration
office in Chiapas gave out 81,245 permits & visas over the past six months.
“We [could] not go to church for several years.”
The International Organization for Migration in Mexico pointed to myriad factors — including the global economic impact of COVID-19, climate change-related disasters
and violence — contributing to the international hodgepodge of migrants flooding the southern border of Mexico en route to the United States.
“Even as policy shifts, these deep-rooted issues persist, underscoring the need
to promote safe, orderly, and dignified migration,” the group said in a statement.
For a group of Afghanistan migrants standing outside, the Taliban’s rise to power
following the United States’ exit sparked their cross-continental trek.
Climate-related disasters, the global economic fallout of COVID-19 and violence are causing migrants to flood southern Mexico en route to the United States. “The Taliban went after us over our professions” said a social worker, noting that he had helped aid
a women’s empowerment organization while another had worked as a journalist.
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One of his companions, a 26-year-old civil engineer in brown knockoff Louis Vuitton
shirt, shuddered recalling horrors of trekking through the Darien Gap, a lawless area
of thick jungle between Colombia and Panama. “It was everything you think you will
face and a lot more,” he said quietly. “It’s Animals. Death.”
“If you were sick, they left you behind.”
Migrants have spent thousands of dollars trying to get to the U.S, through Mexico.
Huang Qing, 40, a cell phone factory worker from China’s Hubei province, said that
he spent $6,000 in credit card debt on his journey so far, flying to Quito before taking
a bus through Central America.
The cost is worth it to possibly reach New York City, though, because getting an American visa the traditional route is “almost impossible for ordinary people,” he said. “America is the most democratic country in the world, and it’s for making money,” he said rosily about his potential future home, where he plans on learning English while working as a masseur or delivery worker.
Migrants wait to board a bus, before being transferred to Tuxtla Gutierrez, to continue their procedures and obtain the 45-day Multiple Migration Form. Many migrants from around the world may have ended up in Chiapas in the past month because of the news that they could easily obtain temporary permits from the Mexican government, allowing them more than a month to make their way across Mexico to the southern United States border, Rendon noted.
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“The government doesn’t want the immigration problem and for migrants to be stuck
in here, so that’s why they’re making it easier to process visas,” Hope David Zuta Medina,
24, said Thursday, sitting in the shade outside of a bus depot while dreaming about his
future working on a ranch in Georgia.
But in the wake of pandemic-era Title 42 policy lapsing.
Mexico announced several steps to crack down on migrants crossing the border into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to send more National Guard forces to the country’s southern border, Bloomberg reported, although The Post observed armed forces taking no action yet against groups of people illegally crossing the Suchiate River — on makeshift river tube rafts from Guatemala into Mexico.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to send more National Guard forces to the country’s southern border. “In the past, when they tried to be very strict, very forceful, there was a lot of criticism that they were violating human rights and so on, so they have to be very cautious,” said Andrés Ramírez, head of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid about brand new measures. “We are in the eve of elections in Mexico, and this is very political.”
The Institute of Migration, meanwhile, ordered its offices nationwide to stop issuing
the temporary permits and shuttered a makeshift office in Tapachula’s Ecological Park
handing out the travel documents. Earlier this week, The Post photographed thousands
of migrants handing themselves in to get the permits at the makeshift facility.
“[The INM]…ordered all immigration offices in all states not to grant Multiple Immigration Forms, or any other document that authorizes transit through the country,” according to a fact sheet circulated at a conference held by López Obrador. Amadou Diallo, 32, who had left military-run Guinea a month ago, also urged the Mexican gov. to continue providing aid to migrants, allowing them to pass through to make their way to the U.S.
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“If I work hard, I believe I can change my life or my family’s life.”
Migrants cross the Suchiate River, which marks the Guatemala-Mexico border,
earlier this week. “The Mexican state should create the conditions to help people
who come, because we are really in need,” said Diallo — standing in a line with
hundreds of confused, exhausted migrants outside of the Ecological Park Friday —
waiting to see whether they could still obtain permits.
Diallo said that his journey, which involved flying to Brazil before traveling
by bus to Mexico, said he would do whatever was necessary to reach the United States. There, he marveled, “if you want a job, you can have a job.” “I would travel illegally, because we can’t return to Guinea,” he said, noting that the police killed at least seven people during nation-wide protests this week.
“When we [left], life [was] not tranquil.”
But suddenly beefed-up US border policies have caused some to abandon adjust
their plans for crossing the United States — and instead stay in Mexico indefinitely. Leyanis Durand, 44, said she and her partner, Julio Eduardo Gamboa, left Cuba with
fear if they manage to cross the US border now, they’ll be the first to be deported.
Instead, they’ve resigned themselves to settling in Monterrey, in northern Mexico,
where they hope to pick up work in restaurants and see Durand’s 21-year-old son
who managed to cross the border into Houston, Texas, a few months ago.
“My son said he’d like for us to go and stay in the States with him, but he’s telling me, ‘Mama, you sold everything to leave, so if you get deported to Cuba, you don’t have anything there. Don’t risk it.’”
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Opinion by Kenan Malik •
It’s no longer ‘the will of the people’ to turn our back on migrants.
‘It is designed to meet the will of the British people in a humane and fair way.”
So wrote the home secretary, Suella Braverman, and the justice secretary,
Alex Chalk, about the government’s illegal immigration bill in a Times op-ed last week.
The bill seeks to detain and remove all migrants who arrive in this country by irregular means and to ban them from ever applying for asylum here. The question of whether government policy is “humane” and “fair”, I have already written about.
But what of it being “the will of the British people”?
In April 2022, a YouGov poll showed that 35% of the British people supported the government’s Rwanda deportation scheme, while 42% opposed it. A year later, this March, 42% supported the government plans, while 39% opposed them – a slight shift towards backing the government, but still less than a majority, and still relatively evenly divided. Other polls have similarly revealed a population with a plurality of views.
When presented with alternatives, support for government policy plummets.
Polling suggests that just 10% of Britons think the best way to deal with migrants in
small boats is to deport them to Rwanda. Almost four times as many – 39% – prefer the government to “make it easier for people to apply for asylum in Britain from overseas”.
Far from government legislation meeting the “will of the people”, Britons are divided on the issue. Most favour “fairness” in immigration and asylum policy, and much of the opposition to the Rwanda deportation scheme is precisely because many recognise it as manifestly unfair and immoral.
There is a broader context to this.
Britain has, in recent years, become more liberal about immigration. Researchers at the Policy Institute at King’s College London have shown that globally Britain is the most relaxed nation when it comes to immigration. A majority believes that any number of people should be able to come to Britain so long as jobs are available; fewer than a 3rd want strict limits on those coming in. A majority hails immigration as having a “positive” effect on the nation; just one in 10 disagrees. Far more think that immigration has no impact on unemployment and crime than think it does.
Conservatives and leavers are far more concerned about immigration than are Labour supporters and remainders. Exposed here is a chasm between the way most people regard the issue and the way it is presented by politicians and commentators. If all we listened to were the debates at Westminster or in the media, we might imagine that Britain was a nation hostile to, and neurotic about, immigration, rather than one that has become far more relaxed about it.
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What many people want, according to the think tank British Future, is a system that prioritises control over numbers. Its polling shows that significantly more people believe it important for the government to have control over who can come to Britain, irrespective of the numbers coming in, than think the government should prioritise deterring people from coming to keep the numbers low.
That thesis may be tested soon. Attitudes to immigration have become more liberal at
the very time regular immigration has been increasing. Figures published last November showed net inward migration of 504,000 in the year to June 2022 – half a million more people came to Britain than left. Some speculate that when figures for the whole of 2022 are released later this month, the data might show a net increase of up to a million.
The figures for 2022 are unusual, partly because of large numbers of Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees admitted last year and partly because of a post-pandemic rebound, mainly for students and those arriving on the new health and care worker visa. The numbers are likely to fall next year. Nevertheless, many commentators have raised the alarm, viewing these numbers as revealing a “lack of control” over immigration, rather than, as others have observed, the post-Brexit system working as designed.
Whether the public will continue to be relaxed about immigration, given the weight of political panic over both Channel migrants and regular immigration, remains to be seen. The intensity of the political and media discussion may be one reason that, while Britons have become warmer to immigration, polls nevertheless reveal a widespread perception of public attitudes as having turned more negative.
There is currently much debate about the role of the “liberal elite” in ignoring the
“will of the public” and imposing their own views on policy. The irony is that, when it comes to immigration, if anyone is out of touch with the public, it is those who refuse to acknowledge the degree to which attitudes have liberalized over the past decade, and the policy consequences of that.
If attitudes have become more liberal, they have also become more polarised. Conservatives and leavers are far more concerned about immigration than are Labour supporters and remainers. The Tories clearly see it as a wedge issue to help win back leavers who have deserted them in the recent period. It is, though, a perilous strategy,
not least because even those who agree with Tory policies view them as ineffective.
And of all groups, leavers are dissatisfied with government policy. Real problems,
from housing to health, are being ignored as migrants are scapegoated.
Beyond the fact of its immorality, the illegal immigration bill is also unworkable.
There are few “return agreements” allowing irregular migrants to be deported. The Rwanda scheme, if it ever gets off the ground, will accept at most a few hundred asylum seekers. There is currently no other country willing to take Britain’s unwanted. Having created a panic over boat migrants, and having conflated the issues of regular and irregular migration, the Tories may find that people will remember the failure of the “stop the boats” campaign more than the boat people themselves, and be more perturbed by the rise in legal migration than by promises to “take back control”.
The real costs of the government’s theatre of cruelty will be borne not by Conservatives
but by migrants, arbitrarily detained and deported and denied their rights, and by the British people whose desire for a fair system is being distorted, whose real problems, from housing to health, are being ignored as migrants are scapegoated, and whose anxieties are being cynically manipulated.
The illegal immigration bill is designed to meet not the “will of the British people”
but the Tories’ political needs. And even in that it will fail.
• Kenan Malik is an Observer columnist/
NOTE: If Biden was a Legi mate Leader, he would be having press conference being open, honest with the truth about the migrants flocking to our border, fleeing the Governments he visualizes the United States to be.
It’s the US version of the #Kalergiplan …welcome to the #4thReich.
Obama, Bush and Clinton have started an NGO to fly migrants into the U.S.
Gates and Schwab want to get rid of a third of the world’s population. Quickest way is to get every country to have a civil war. They are counting on it. Enabling it. Paying for it. Masterful plan if you think about it. Biden knows we will not fight each other. Why not bring in illegal aliens to cause havoc. Once we defend ourselves and stack bodies…
Martial Law = gun grab. They know 0nly way they get our guns.
Obama and his administration are destroying America right before your eyes, this is only the beginning! It has already started. What they’re doing is putting us in a state of tyranny where we have no recourse to fight back. Basically slavery to the government. The citizens do not realize they are under attack just yet. And that will be their excuse to usher in martial law!!!
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Don’t forget the plan to label every single land/homeowner who does use deadly force to defend themselves as a “white supremacist” to reinforce Biden’s lie that white supremacy is the biggest threat our nation is facing. Curious & if the landowners also try defending themselves, democrats could arrest the landowners for murder & relinquish their land to the illegals as a compensation or just let them kill the landowners & take their land etc., would that piss y’all enough to retaliate?
All they care about is giving them enough to live on without working AND most importantly getting them registered as democrats. The libtards know they can not be
re-elected by US citizens so bring in voters. The 2024 election will define this country.
The smelly turd is the most un-American so-called President that we have ever had!
Biden is a turd of epic proportions, a treasonous POS.
People fleeing socialist countries should be an eye opener for all concerned.
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