“Those of us who have come from Africa ... I’m sure we will continue to wait here, even if it’s a year,” one migrant said. “It is far better than anything we have seen in our country. In [Cameroon], we slept with corpses.”
The metering policy, begun in Trump’s first year, when he boasted the, has transformed even smaller Mexican border cities like this one into overcrowded, fetid refugee waiting rooms, pushing many toward the river.
In the camp’s two bathrooms, waste oozes out of the floor and sinks. Flies buzz around overflowing trash and unrefrigerated food. Temperatures are now often rising above 100 degrees.A group of Haitians, Africans and South Americans has set up camp on the U.S.-Mexico border waiting for their numbers to come up so they can formally make asylum claims with U.S. officials. Still, he said, they will wait.
“This is a sleepy town, and I’ve always said we don’t want to be the weak link in the chain,” he said. “They know it’s easier to come through here.” A refugee camp has formed on the Mexico side of the U.S-Mexico border in a town called Acuña, where hundreds of refugees are camping as they wait their turn on the list to ask for asylum.
Del Rio, like Acuña, doesn’t have a migrant shelter, or many transportation options — and the city wants to keep it that way, said Tiffany Zook, secretary of the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition.In April, Border Patrol agents warned city officials that they would be releasing migrants in the town whether it was prepared or not, said Zook, whose husband is an emergency medical technician and vessel commander with a Border Patrol river unit.
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