Mexico Migrant Centers Begin to Crowd as Joe Biden's Migrant Crackdown Takes Effect

Joe Biden's strict new border crackdown has begun to bite as migrants are now being deported without their asylum pleas being heard. This has forced migrant shelters south of the border to become overcrowded as more and more people get thrown back to Mexico.

Several shelters have reported that they are caring for more migrants now that the Biden administration has begun deporting migrants back to Mexico. However, other migrant shelters have reported that they have yet to see much of a change.

Much of the impact has been felt in migrant shelters in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, which borders Arizona. Much of the deportations go to the state, as 500 deportations from Arizona are seen each day.

"We're having to turn people away because we can't, we don't have the room for all the people who need shelter," Kino Border Initiative Executive Director Joanna Williams told the Associated Press, noting that her shelter can only take in around 100 people at a time.

Other migrant shelters, such as the San Juan Bosco shelter in Nogales, also saw an increase in the number of migrants they usually house. Director Juan Francisco Loureiro noted that they currently shelter 120 migrants. This is up from 40 since the policy change.

"We have had a quite remarkable increase," he said, adding that most of the people that they are caring for are Mexicans. However, Mexico had previously agreed to take in deportees from other countries, including Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Over in Tijuana, right across from California, the directors of the city's four largest migrant shelters reported that they have yet to receive a single deportee from Joe Biden's border crackdown.

Meanwhile, Al Otro Lado, a migrant advocacy group, stated that they only managed to consult seven migrants on the first full day of operating an information booth at the main crossing. However, the group does admit that there is a lot of uncertainty at the moment.

Mexico Miring Migrants in Transit, Playing Joe Biden's Immigration Enforcer

The migrants who were deported and not from Mexico are usually bused to the south of the country, where they have to retake their long trek north to the US-Mexico border once again.

Critics have blasted President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador over this busing policy, which has been implemented to frustrate migrants and deter them from continuing their journey to the US-Mexico border. They blame AMLO for being "willing to trade rights of migrants for political capital in Washington," according to The Guardian.

Mexico Says Migrants Coming to the US Come from 177 Different Countries

Meanwhile, Mexico released its migrant statistics and revealed that approximately 1.39 million people from 177 countries traveled through Mexico en route to the US-Mexico border. A vast majority of them were adult men or women traveling alone, while almost 3,000 were unaccompanied minors.

Almost 380,000 came from Venezuela, a country whose economic and political crisis has driven hundreds of thousands of citizens to flee the Maduro regime. This is followed by migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Haiti, according to VOA News.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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