Migrants in Mexico Are Getting Impatient
Frustrated that Biden hasn't opened the border fast enough, Cubans and others talk of simply rushing over
By Todd Bensman on January 27, 2021
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Hawking Spanish-language newspapers on a curbside kiosk at the mouth of the Paso del Norte International Bridge leading over to El Paso, Cuban migrant Victor Manuel confessed that he knows of a plot by more than 1,300 of his countrymen.
The Cuban migrant community of Juarez, impatient and frustrated that President Joe Biden hasn't actually let them cross into the United States, is planning to charge en mass — all at once — and force their way over a lightly patrolled land border zone if they don't get what they want after January 29, Manuel told the Center for Immigration Studies. He refused to say where.
At the beginning of January, as many as 400 Cubans chanting "Biden! Biden! Biden!", required by the Trump administration's "Migrant Protection Protocols" (MPP or Wait in Mexico) to await their asylum claims on the Mexican side of the border, along with 70,000 other migrants, charged over the international bridge demanding to be let in based on the new president's now-fulfilled vow to end the policy. But U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in riot gear easily blocked the assault, tactically aided by the narrow confines of the bridge.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Migrants-Mexico-Are-Getting-Impatient
