Migrants stranded on US-Mexico border served peanut butter sandwiches by volunteers

Record ID: 1724913

  • Title: Migrants stranded on US-Mexico border served peanut butter sandwiches by volunteers
  • Date: 10th May 2023
  • Summary: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 10, 2023) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF VOLUNTEERS AND AID WORKERS HANDING PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICHES THROUGH BORDER WALL TO MIGRANTS STRANDED BETWEEN TWO U.S.-MEXICO BORDER WALLS (SOUNDBITES) (English) PEDRO RIOS, AID WORKER, SAYING: "Behind us we have migrants who are asylum seekers some of whom have been here for six days, seven days. Some of them have just arrived last night and they are in squalid conditions. (They) don't have access to food or to water." VARIOUS OF TWO VOLUNTEERS MAKING PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICHES FOR STRANDED MIGRANTS OUT OF TRUNK OF PARKED CAR WOMAN CARRYING PLATE OF SANDWICHES FROM TRUNK OF PARKED CAR TO BORDER FENCE AID WORKER HANDING SANDWICHES TO MIGRANTS THROUGH BORDER FENCE (SOUNDBITES) (English) PEDRO RIOS, AID WORKER, SAYING: "You know, I think it is interesting because I would say maybe about half of the people here know what Title 42 is. The others don't. But what they do know is that they fear for their lives and they are risking everything to come to the United States because they cannot be in their home country." VARIOUS OF AID WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS GATHERED IN FRONT OF BORDER WITH FOOD AND OTHER ITEMS TO GIVE TO MIGRANTS THROUGH BORDER WALL VARIOUS OF WOMAN GIVING MIGRANTS DIRECTION THROUGH BORDER FENCE USING BULLHORN VIEW THROUGH BORDER FENCE OF A FATHER SITTING WITH HIS YOUNG CHILDREN ON THE GROUND VIEW THROUGH BORDER FENCE OF A FATHER SITTING ON THE GROUND FEEDING TODDLER MORE OF MIGRANS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN SEEN THROUGH BORDER FENCE VIEW OF MAN WRAPPED IN HYPOTHERMIC BLANKET VIEW OF WOMAN WITH CHILD TALKING TO U.S. BORDER GUARDS CLOSE-UP OF BACK OF HEAD OF U.S. BORDER GUARD VIEW OF MOTHER HOLDING YOUNG BOYS HAND AS THEY COLLECT FOOD AID FROM BOXES VARIOUS OF LARGE GROUP OF MIGRANTS SEATED IN GROUND VIEW OF BORDER WALL
  • Embargoed: 24th May 2023 22:03
  • Keywords: Border California Immigration
  • Location: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • City: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,North America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001152810052023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Aid workers and volunteers gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego, California, on Wednesday (May 10) and some passed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to stranded migrants.
    Hundreds of migrants have been gathering between two U.S. border fences as they await the end of a three-year long COVID-19 policy that blocked people crossing from seeking asylum.
    "Behind us we have migrants who are asylum seekers who have been here for six days, seven days. Some of them have just arrived last night and they are in squalid conditions," said Pedro Rio, a volunteers and migrant rights supporter.
    "(They) don't have access to food or to water," he added.
    On Wednesday, dozens reached through the fence asking for food as volunteers brought peanut butter sandwiches, oranges, water and other items.
    The policy, known as Title 42, is set to expire at midnight on May 11, and has prompted a rush of migrants to the border waiting to cross into the U.S.
    Activists say that queues of migrants started arriving this week to the city of Tijuana, which borders San Diego, hoping to get ahead of a potential rush in asylum applications after May 11.
    The U.S. rolled out a regulation on Wednesday that presumes most migrants are ineligible for asylum if they passed through other nations without seeking protection elsewhere first or if they failed to use legal pathways for U.S. entry.
    Under Title 42, which has been in place since March 2020, many border crossers were rapidly expelled to Mexico without a chance to seek asylum, leading to repeat attempts.
    (Production: Mike Blake, Omar Younis)
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