Around 500 people continued to wait their turns in an open-air holding area between border fences near Imperial Beach and San Ysidro on Saturday
In the wake of the expiration of the federal government’s Title 42 immigration policy, the processing of migrants gathering on the border in the San Diego area appeared to be accelerating Saturday, according to reports heard by migrant advocates as well as migrants themselves.‘s US/Mexico Border Program, said a Border Patrol agent “indicated there were many more open spaces and that the processing was starting to move a little faster.
A man from Belize being held in a men’s area about a mile and a half west said many buses and vans had already left with people for processing. He said he’d been told his turn would come Saturday, as well.Rios of American Friends estimated the number of migrants at the Friendship Park site at between 400 and 500. In addition to Central and South America, theA couple people inside the camp said they think the number is increasing.
“There’s a lot more people here today,” Osorio said. “The first few days there were more media than people here helping. Today there’s many more.” “There’s too much violence, too much crime, no work, no jobs” in Jamaica, he said. Smith said he drove a truck at a chicken processing plant in Kingston and wants to join relatives in Alabama.
“We don’t want to go back to Jamaica,” he said. “We’re just waiting . We have no problem with working. We get up in Jamaica at 4:30, 5 in the morning to work. I love to drive a truck.”
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