Border Report: The ‘Crisis of Migration’ at Our Doorstep
Migrant shelters in Tijuana, such as Zona Norte's Juventud 2000, are overflowing with tents as people from all over the world continue to arrive in the city
By Brooke Binkowski | 9 hours ago
Although the wave of people seeking asylum, refuge, or humanitarian parole in the United States continues unabated, the United States has announced that it will resume deportations of Haitians, six years after suspending them when an earthquake devastated Haiti’s infrastructure in 2010. That will have an immediate effect on how Haitians appearing at the San Ysidro Port of Entry — and every other — will be processed: As of last week, they will be detained and processed under “expedited removal,” also known as the rocket docket, without an appearance before an immigration judge.
The decision has been decried by human rights activists on both sides of the border. Now, hundreds, if not thousands, of people from Haiti to Senegal are stuck in Tijuana, many in limbo as they contend with the U.S.’s new laws — with thousands more on the way. Zona Norte shelter Juventud 2000 has begun erecting tents along the sidewalk outside its walls in order to handle the spillover, its members fretting over whether they will be denied entry into the United States and if they are, where they will go next.
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