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Mexico Raids Tijuana Camp Home to Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Denied U.S. Entry

HeadlineFeb 07, 2022

In Mexico, some 380 migrants — including families with young children — were evicted from a makeshift border camp in the city of Tijuana Sunday morning. Dozens of Mexican National Guard, Army soldiers and municipal police raided the camp where the migrants, mostly from Central America, had been forced to live for nearly one year — due to the Biden administration’s ongoing enforcement of policies that have blocked people from entering the U.S. to apply for asylum. This is a migrant from El Salvador.

José Contreras: “We are caught off guard. We don’t know where we will be taken. A shelter? I don’t know. I don’t know what the Mexican authorities are going to do with us. We don’t know what they’re going to do.”

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