Overflowing Shelters at Southern Border Brace for Increase in Migrant Flow

The Trump-era immigration policy allowing the expulsion of asylum seekers at America’s southern border, known as Title 42, is scheduled to be lifted December 21.

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Four men from Cuba try to keep warm after crossing the border from Mexico and surrendering to authorities to apply for asylum on November 3, 2022, near Yuma, Arizona. AP/Gregory Bull, file

While President Biden attempts to deal with the record number of migrants crossing the southern border, Mexican charities on the other side of the Rio Grande are struggling to accommodate the throngs of people yearning to make the journey into America.

Shelters for migrants in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez are using all of their resources to assist the migrants flowing in from South and Central America. Although already strained, they anticipate that the flow will increase after the Trump-era immigration policy allowing the expulsion of asylum seekers at America’s southern border is lifted.

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