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As violence increases, more Mexicans are waiting in Ciudad Juárez to apply for asylum...The city is used to being inundated with Central Americans, Cubans and some Africans who are passing through the country as they flee violence and poverty back home and plan to cross into the United States to seek asylum. But Mexicans also hoping to seek asylum in America began arriving from the south in larger numbers last month, said Enrique Valenzuela, director of Ciudad Juárez’s Centro de Atención a Migrantes, a migrant transition facility operated by the Chihuahua state government. In recent years the number of Central American asylum seekers that have surrendered to or been apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents has largely surpassed the number of Mexicans. But through the current federal fiscal year that began in October, more migrants who present themselves at a port of entry have been of Mexican origin than any other country, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics. Read more at: https://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/as-violence-increases-more-mexicans-are-waiting-in-ciudad-ju/article_1b03b906-d66f-11e9-93ad-175a51c57b10.html
