Immigration «Tsunami» of sorts in Mexico-USA border

REDACCIÓN
THE BAJA POST

The end of year 2023 is near, and Mexico once again becomes a transit territory for thousands of Central and South Americans fleeing criminal violence and government repression, lack of work and of education opportunities, in order to reach the United States, seeking the so-called “American dream» over crowding the border in an Immigration Tsunami of sorts.

However, they find an American nightmare, first they must face Mexico´s own ferocious and implacable National Immigration Institute that represses and scares them, takes money and valuables from them, those Mexican “migras” are the first obstacle in an ordeal experienced by those who want to enter and work in the United States, those who hope immigration is the key to a better life.

The worst immigration crisis is currently occurring in Eagle Pass and El Paso, cities in Texas, bordering Piedras Negras, Coahuila and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; where the economic and commercial operations in Customs have stopped and Governor Greg Abbott has enacted a Law that toughens measures against illegal immigrants, something that has not occurred with such rigor since 2010 in Arizona with the so-called “Show me your papers” Law.

Only on December 18, more than 12 thousand 600 immigrants were registered at the Mexico-United States border, the maximum number registered in a single day, there are still many who will be registered day after day, a humanitarian crisis, more than an immigration one, which shows the lack of work and capabilities of Mexican immigration authorities who are helpless and haven’t been able to contain the immigrants’ flow.

Bad governments, lack of control of the gangs called “Maras” in some Central American countries, lack of guarantees and of justice in Venezuela, which are the main countries from where these people flee trying to enter the United States at any cost, illegally, a territory that they view as a land of opportunities.

While the Texas Government gets tougher on migrants, the Mexican Government seems to close its eyes hoping that “these people will disappear”, an “ostrich” line of action of the Mexican Government, that has been constant in the way the current Government faces problems, hiding their head as an ostrich “hoping for the best”.

This crisis is a consequence of corruption and lack of respect for human rights in several countries in Central and South America, where there are no jobs, no educational opportunities and organized crime can act with wide freedom in the face of fearful or complicit governments and their Residents see the United States as a “lifeboat”, without seeing that by trying to enter that country they break the Laws and become criminals.

Meanwhile, Latin American governments, expellers of immigrants, continue in an attitude of “wishful thinking,” closing their eyes to an overwhelming reality and saying that “things have changed and that all this information about the humanitarian and migration crisis is disseminated by our political enemies because they no longer have the power to do their will”, a surreal and illusory attitude in the face of an overwhelming reality.