Entry into the U.S. remains extremely complicated and word has spread among migrants that Canada is a significantly better landing spot.
A man in Juarez, Mexico, stands facing the northern U.S. border. Entry into the U.S., be it legally or otherwise, remains extremely complicated and word has spread among migrants that Canada is likely a significantly better landing spot.
Nelson shows the video so the world can understand the degree of desperation held by so many migrants fleeing strife in Central and South America. Migrants who will risk even crocodile-infested waters to escape their home countries and find a better life farther north. Why Canada? Entry into the U.S., be it legally or otherwise, remains extremely complicated and word has spread among migrants in Juarez that Canada is likely a significantly better landing spot.Ramirez, who worked in sales in Venezuela, and Urbina, who was a criminal lawyer, paid smugglers $5,000 US to transit them to Juarez — partly on the roof of a boxcar and partly on foot through those jungles of Panama.
Gang violence, drug cartels and political corruption together continue to leave countless with little choice but to flee their home countries, even though they know the journey itself will be life-threatening and that eventually getting anywhere beyond the U.S.-Mexico border is extremely complicated.
And in late February, the Biden administration announced new and separate rules making it even harder for migrants to claim asylum in the U.S.At the tiny Pasos de Fe shelter just outside central Juarez, one of countless such places in the city, there's room for about 50 migrants. And in one of the multiple crowded sleeping areas in the shelter, Yolver Tamariz, a Venezuelan who fled Caracas last summer, is clear about what he's hoping for.
On the day CBC News came by to watch, there'd been a rumour among the migrants in Juarez that on the other side of the wall would be buses waiting for them with free passage to Canada.But the desperate desire to believe it was clear.
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