AZMEX I3-2 16-7-19

AZMEX I3-2 16 JUL 2019

Note: Tamaulipas just south of Brownsville, TX.


They send Central Americans from Tamaulipas to Tijuana
They say they spent a week in a detention center in Texas before being transferred to San Diego.
By Khennia Reyes
July 16th

https://www.elimparcial.com/tijuana/tijuana/Envian-a-centroamericanos-de-Tamaulipas-a-Tijuana-20190716-0012.html

The migrants were returned from San Diego to Tijuana.

More than 30 Central Americans who began their asylum process in the United States in Tamaulipas arrived in Tijuana that morning.

They commented that they spent a week in a detention center in Texas,
from where they were transferred to San Diego, California.

The house El Puente (The Bridge), which is also supported by activists from Tijuana and the United States;
It is located in Colonia Amparo Sánchez

TIJUANA
Central American migrants will provide their own shelter

The 28-year-old Estuar 'N' Guatemalan said that the transfer was by plane, in which the migration agents played a joke to them
making them believe that they had already achieved the American dream.

In San Diego there were three days and today they were returned to Tijuana to wait until September or December
to hear whether or not they will be granted asylum.

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Hostel ready for 3 thousand Central Americans
The delegate of the INM in the State said that they plan to start operations in two weeks.
By Glenn Sánchez
July 16th
https://www.elimparcial.com/tijuana/tijuana/Alistan-albergue-para-3-mil-centroamericanos-20190716-0004.html

TIJUANA.- In about two weeks, the shelter will be opened by the Federal Government to receive returned
Central American migrants from the United States.

The delegate of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in Baja California, Manuel Marín Salazar,
reported that at the moment there are 7,000 migrants returning to Tijuana and Mexicali.

"It is in planning, I believe that more information could be given around a week or a week and a half; is not in charge of the INM,
we know because we participate in the planning, "he said.

This new space will be able to house up to 3,000 returned Central Americans, he said, and it will be the federation that will operate it.

"Within the program that has shelter, is contemplated the possibility that these Central Americans can work in Mexico
during the period they were received in the United States for their next appointment," he added.

They are ready

Regarding the possible raids that could be generated in the neighboring country, (USA)
the federal official said that at the moment they have not detected a rebound in the deportations of returnees.

"It remains in the same number, we are monitoring," he said, "this weekend did not increase,
it continued with the same numbers and we are prepared for a possibility of these."

He recalled that in the repatriation center carry support from food, phone calls, and even return to their home states.

Currently, the daily average of repatriates is from 80 to 90 in Tijuana, while in Mexicali it is from 70 to 80;
this figure in years ago was up to 40% more, so he reiterated that they are prepared for any eventuality.

Even with the Mexican consulates in the neighboring country, they will serve to provide information about their rights.

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