The migrants commented that the US authorities tied them by the hands with plastic ties and they were sent to Mexico under the deception that they were going to Florida.
A group of about 200 migrants deported by the United States protested this Wednesday in front of the National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to avoid being transported in trucks to Chiapas.
The migrants said the Americans tied their hands with plastic ties under the deception that they would be taken to another shelter in El Paso, Texas, but instead they were expelled to Mexico over the Zaragoza-Ysleta bridge in Ciudad Juárez.
Manuel Ángel Morales Montemayor, a migrant from Venezuela, assured that they are demanding from the Mexican authority that instead of taking them to Chiapas, they be delivered to the embassy of their country in Mexico.
We want you to give us our belongings and to bring the two buses that are missing from our families and our colleagues and for you to get on the bus because of our colleague who was beaten, so that they can record his face.
Morales indicated that they had been locked up in a US shelter for 10 days from which they could not leave, without bathing and eating twice a day.
“They told us that they were going to take us to another shelter to put on a bracelet to go to the state of Florida. So, they deceived us, they expelled us, they did not deport us, they expelled us from the United States,” he indicated.
Furthermore, he stated that in Venezuela his families have already sold everything, from the car to the appliances, to be able to finance the initial trip.
We want human rights, we are human beings, we are not animals, look how they practically imprisoned us, they wanted to take us detained to Villahermosa with our hands behind us, our hands were tired.
On the other hand, he warned that in addition to the expenses involved in crossing all of Mexico, there is also the danger of being kidnapped.
“We cannot return there because the cartels grab us. It’s 2,000, 3,000 dollars that they take from us. Migration puts its hand in women’s private parts,” denounced Morales Montemayor.
The protests come after the new standards for requesting asylum announced this week by the United States Government and the increasing operations to stop migrants by Mexican authorities.
US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreed at the end of April to “work together to immediately implement concrete measures to significantly reduce irregular border crossings while protecting human rights.”
Source: aristeguinoticias
