The United States Government asks Mexico to clear migrant camps on the border

The Biden Administration raises the pulse with Mexico due to the migration crisis.

The United States has asked the López Obrador government to clear the camps that house thousands of migrants in Mexican border cities because they pose a security risk because they attract drug gangs who want to attract immigrants to their ranks, they said. officials close to the request to

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Faced with internal criticism for an increase in illegal crossings across the common border, the US government is pressuring Mexico to curb the flow of migrants and thus help ease tensions along a border of almost 3,200 kilometers. According to US government officials, Mexican migrant camps have become a breeding ground for members of drug trafficking to try to extort money from people seeking to reach US territory.

Two of the largest camps to emerge in northern Mexico are in Reynosa, Tamulipas, across the border from McAllen, Texas, and in Tijuana, off San Diego, California. US government officials argue that the Reynosa camp is home to at least 2,500 people, is unsanitary and has attracted members of organized crime. The Tijuana camp is home to a similar number of migrants. The

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specifies that both the US State Department and the Mexican Foreign Ministry declined to comment on this information.

The request to clear the border camps adds to the tension that exists between the two countries in the face of a migratory flow that does not give truce. In July, border crossings broke a new record, with more than 212,000 encounters reported by US authorities. It is the highest figure in 20 years.

In addition, this week the Supreme Court of the United States dealt a severe blow to the Biden government. The Court decided to reinstate the controversial Stay in Mexico program devised by Donald Trump, with which tens of thousands of asylum seekers to the United States had to await their processes south of the Rio Grande. After hearing the ruling, the Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) in Mexico responded that the judicial decision does not oblige Mexico and that its immigration policy is designed and executed in a sovereign manner. "Consequently, the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States does not have a direct implication in the migration management of the Government of Mexico," the federal agency reported in writing.

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