Thread: U.S. shuts border bridge to stop migrants rushing across from Mexico

U.S. shuts border bridge to stop migrants rushing across from Mexico









By Julio-Cesar Chavez

,Reuters• February 29, 2020

By Julio-Cesar Chavez


CIUDAD JUAREZ/EL PASO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said they closed the busy Ciudad Juarez-El Paso border bridge on Friday after more than a hundred mostly Cuban migrants tried to cross in response to a court ruling suspending an asylum policy.


Earlier, an appeals court ruled to block one of President Donald Trump's signature immigration policies the administration says has helped to curb migration on the southern border and forced tens of thousands to wait in Mexico.


Word of the news spread on social media and a Reuters witness saw migrants on the Mexican side of the border heading towards the bridge while some U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers were putting on riot gear.


"I've been waiting in Juarez for ten months," said one Cuban asylum seeker, who declined to give his name. "I don't care how long I have to wait here for them to let us through."


CBP confirmed on its Twitter account that it had closed the Paso Del Norte Bridge to stop a group of migrants from illegally and forcefully entering the United States and that other ports stayed open.


The policy has forced roughly 60,000 people back to Mexico under one of Trump's asylum policies, called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), to await the outcome of their cases in often dangerous border towns.


There, they are vulnerable to kidnapping, rape, robbery and other crimes while living in sometimes unsanitary conditions.


Later on Friday, the Trump administration said in an emergency motion that at least 25,000 migrants sent back through the program were still in Mexico and that halting the program "could prompt a rush on the southern border".


In response, the appeals court put its ruling on hold to allow the administration to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue.


"It's time for everyone to start going home, no one is going to cross tonight," said Enrique Valenzuela, head of the population council of the Chihuahua state government, whose is among those in charge of handling migrants at the border.


"The suspension has been suspended, MPP is back," he told migrants as he walked through the crowd at the base of the bridge.


Even though some migrants left, dozens were still present when CBP tweeted the bridge would remain closed overnight. (Reporting by Julio-Cesar Chavez in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso; Additional reporting by Ted Hesson in Washington; Writing by Stefanie Eschenbacher; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)



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Offer to send buses and planes to Mexico to SEND THEM ALL BACK HOME!

No one should be crossing, no matter where they came from!

Mexico does not want them, USA does not want them.

Thousands are backed up in Mexico. Load them up and send them home now!

NO MORE ILLEGAL ALIENS, NO ASYLUM, NO REFUGEES, NO TPS.

WE ARE NOT THEM DUMPING GROUND OR ATM MACHINE FOR THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.


Load those Cuban's on military transport and drop them off at Guantanamo Bay and march them out the front gate of the base.

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THOUSANDS WHO NEED TO BE PUT ON BUSES AND TRANSPORTATION BACK HOME!!!

THEY CANNOT COME HERE!

Paso del Norte Bridge reopens after temporary closure due to safety concern

Maria Cortes Gonzalez, El Paso Times
Published 9:05 a.m. MT Feb. 29, 2020


The Paso del Norte international bridge in Downtown El Paso reopened at 6 a.m. Saturday, after a temporary closing due to concerns about migrant mass entry, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Twitter account.

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The El Paso port of entry Paso Del Norte international crossing is open. CBP officers began processing pedestrian and vehicular traffic at 6 a.m. following overnight closure related to massing of migrants on Mexican side of the crossing.

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The initial closure began at 7:20 p.m. Friday to prevent a group of migrants to forcefully and illegally surge through the port of entry, officials tweeted.

Buy PhotoThe Paso Del Norte Port of Entry (Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ/EL PASO TIMES)

This is not the first time bridge officials have closed the bridge. In August of 2019, the same bridge was temporarily closed in the afternoon until a large group of immigrants dissipated.

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/ne...ry/4913422002/