Migrants seen massing along Rio Bravo river

Record ID: 1703856

  • Title: Migrants seen massing along Rio Bravo river
  • Date: 22nd December 2022
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 22, 2022) (STATE TV) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN ARRIVING JOURNALIST ASKING QUESTION (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN SAYING: "The decision that we just heard come from the Taliban on denying opportunities for women to go to universities, girls to go to school. I think what you've already hear
  • Embargoed: 5th January 2023 23:38
  • Keywords: El Paso Migrants Rio Brava Texas security
  • Location: EL PASO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
  • City: EL PASO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,North America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001854622122022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Hundreds of migrants could be seen from north of the U.S.-Mexican border crossing the Rio Bravo river into Texas on Thursday (December 22).
    As they openly made their way north, U.S. security could be seen fanned out along the border.
    Many of the migrants were hoping entry would be easier after a December 21 deadline for the United States to lift COVID-era migration restrictions, but the U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled to let the policy, called Title 42, temporarily stay in place.
    Title 42 allows U.S. authorities to rapidly expel migrants to Mexico and elsewhere without a chance to seek U.S. asylum.
    The United States can typically only send back migrants from Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras under the policy.
    Other nationalities, such as Nicaraguans and Colombians, are generally allowed to enter and pursue immigration cases.
    President Joe Biden's administration has asked the Supreme Court to leave Title 42 in place until after December 27.
    Hundreds of migrants are gearing up to spend Christmas sleeping in a tent near the border in the Mexican city of Matamoros.
    Many have spent the last two-and-a-half months in the city opposite Brownsville, Texas, hoping U.S. policy changes would let them request asylum and send for their families.
    (Production by: Carlos Barria, Dan Fastenberg)
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