Lawyers and advocates who work with immigrants say 2022 was the year they lost patience with President Joe Biden.
Friendship Park is the only spot along the U.S./Mexico border where families from one side can meet, and actually hug, relatives on the other side. The park has a gate that allows people into a space between the primary and secondary border walls. Over the years, it has been the site of birthday parties, reunions and weddings.“President Biden said not one more foot of border wall,” said Pedro Rios, the director of the U.S./Mexico border program for American Friends Service Committee.
In Tijuana, advocates say Trump-era asylum policies have led to crowded shelters and unsafe conditions for migrants. Erika Pinheiro is the executive director of Al Otro Lado, a Los Angeles-based legal aid organization that works with migrants stranded in Mexico. She said the makeshift shelters have become places where vulnerable people are being taken advantage of and subjected to unsafe conditions.
“We have seen the proliferation of these really informal shelters,” Pinheiro said. “Some, I wouldn’t even call a habitable building. There are rodent infestations, people exposed to the elements, and serious safety issues. Then you have some shelter directors stealing donations and exploiting migrants.”
Pinheiro also spoke of racial inequities tied to Title 42. It gives border agents the discretion to let particularly vulnerable migrants into the U.S. by granting exemptions on a case-by-case basis. However, white European migrants had easier access to those exemptions than black and brown migrants from Latin America.“I think, by and large, it’s Black and indigenous migrants who are left out,” Pinheiro said.
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