Big title06 Sep 2022
In immigration news, at least nine asylum seekers drowned over the weekend as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border. 37 other asylum seekers were rescued. The river is several meters above its normal level, as the region has been hit by torrential rains in recent days. The tragedy has intensified calls for Congress and US President Joe Biden’s administration to enact policies to ensure refugees can safely cross the border to seek asylum. Among other measures, the end of the “Title 42” immigration policy invoked by the Trump administration, which blocked the entry into the United States of approximately two million asylum seekers seeking refuge in the country, is called upon to force them to take dangerous routes to enter.
In addition, some 125 asylum seekers arrived in the city of Chicago on buses from the state of Texas. On Sunday alone, the city received around 50 asylum seekers, most of them families. Local officials are demanding Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott help provide more humane treatment for asylum seekers, as Chicago asks for more volunteers to help asylum seekers arriving in the city. For months, Abbott forcibly moved hundreds of asylum seekers to so-called “liberal cities,” including New York and Washington DC.
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