1 Dozens of Central American and Mexican migrants blocked one of the access lanes to the San Ysidro border bridge, on the border between Mexico and the United States, on Saturday night.
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2 Two migrants covered by a blanket, during the protest at the border crossing.
The group of Central Americans and Mexicans asks that their asylum requests to the United States be honored.
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3Migrants spent Saturday night on the road that leads to the other side of the border.
Elements of the US security forces were deployed to the scene.
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4Among the migrants who maintained the blockade were dozens of minors.
In February of this year alone, US border agencies apprehended more than 100,000 migrants, although most are immediately returned to Mexico by the closure of the border imposed by Donald Trump due to the coronavirus crisis and that the current Joe Administration Biden has kept it current.
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5U.S. Police deploy at the San Ysidro border crossing in response to the protests of migrants.
US President Joe Biden has assured that the solution to the rise in the arrival of unaccompanied minors and Central American families is to improve living conditions in their countries of origin, but with greater control of aid.
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6A man prepares food at a stand at the border crossing, while some migrants demonstrate and others rest in sleeping bags on the ground.
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7Biden, who has ended some of the heavy-handed programs of the Trump era, is asking Central Americans for patience while help arrives and they implement a system so they can apply for asylum and other types of visas from their communities without having to do a dangerous path as undocumented.
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8A vehicle of the Mexican municipal police goes to the place of the protest.
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9Migrants demonstrate with banners at the San Ysidro border crossing last Friday.
The protest to request asylum in the United States has been in place for several days.
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The protest of migrants on the border of Mexico and the United States, in pictures
2021-04-28T21:42:20.993Z
Central American migrants blocked one of the access roads to the San Ysidro border crossing to ask that their asylum applications in the United States be accepted
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