{"id":6212,"date":"2021-09-29T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2021-09-29T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:59:32","slug":"why-15000-migrants-ended-up-in-one-spot-on-the-u-s-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6212","title":{"rendered":"Why 15,000 Migrants Ended Up in One Spot on the U.S.-Mexico Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In late August, Nephtalie and her husband, still waiting in Chiapas, began to hear a rumor spreading around the Haitian migrant population living across Mexico. From interviews this week with other migrants in Del Rio, and conversations with attorneys who have met with dozens more, it seems that many people had the same experience. The rumor went like this: First, information went around that, while most of the border was closed, U.S. immigration authorities were allowing people to cross and ask for asylum in Mexicali \u2014 on the border with Calexico, California \u2014 and in Acu\u00f1a, the Mexican city across from Del Rio. (This was not true, but it spread like wildfire among people yearning for a glimmer of hope.) Second, the rumor said that Sept. 16 would be the best day to travel. That would be Mexico\u2019s Independence Day, and migrants figured that the Mexican authorities, who have bowed to U.S. pressure to more stringently police immigrants in Mexico, would be preoccupied, allowing them to travel within the country unimpeded northward. Finally, the bus routes to Acu\u00f1a were cheaper than to other spots along the border, like Mexicali. So, as el D\u00eda de la Independencia de M\u00e9xico<\/em> arrived, thousands of people who had heard the rumors \u2014 by word of mouth or on WhatsApp or on Haitian social media \u2014 began traveling to Acu\u00f1a to cross into Del Rio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I asked one Haitian man at a gas station in Del Rio, \u201cWhy did you choose to cross from Acun\u00e3 to Del Rio?\u201d he replied: \u201cWhere is that?\u201d Like many, he had probably simply followed others along what sounded like an opportunity to finally be accepted in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the stakes of following such a rumor only to be faced with the reality of a closed border are tragic: Most of the Haitians in Del Rio today left Haiti years ago. Now, after traveling thousands of miles with the hope that they could eventually gain asylum in the U.S., many are instead being returned to the very island they fled.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/09\/23\/del-rio-desperation-dysfunction-immigration-513978<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In late August, Nephtalie and her husband, still waiting in Chiapas, began to hear a rumor spreading around the Haitian migrant population living across Mexico. From interviews this week with other migrants in Del Rio, and conversations with attorneys who have met with dozens more, it seems that many people had the same experience. The rumor went like this: First, information went around that, while most of the border was closed, U.S. immigration authorities were allowing people to cross and ask for asylum in Mexicali \u2014 on the border with Calexico, California \u2014 and in Acu\u00f1a, the Mexican city across from Del Rio. (This was not true, but it spread like wildfire among people yearning for a glimmer of hope.) Second, the rumor said that Sept. 16 would be the best day to travel. That would be Mexico\u2019s Independence Day, and migrants figured that the Mexican authorities, who have bowed to U.S. pressure to more stringently police immigrants in Mexico, would be preoccupied, allowing them to travel within the country unimpeded northward. Finally, the bus routes to Acu\u00f1a were cheaper than to other spots along the border, like Mexicali. So, as el D\u00eda de la Independencia de M\u00e9xico arrived, thousands of people who had heard the rumors \u2014 by word of mouth or on WhatsApp or on Haitian social media \u2014 began traveling to Acu\u00f1a to cross into Del Rio.<\/p>\n

When I asked one Haitian man at a gas station in Del Rio, \u201cWhy did you choose to cross from Acun\u00e3 to Del Rio?\u201d he replied: \u201cWhere is that?\u201d Like many, he had probably simply followed others along what sounded like an opportunity to finally be accepted in the United States.<\/p>\n

But the stakes of following such a rumor only to be faced with the reality of a closed border are tragic: Most of the Haitians in Del Rio today left Haiti years ago. Now, after traveling thousands of miles with the hope that they could eventually gain asylum in the U.S., many are instead being returned to the very island they fled.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[268,449,26,25,232],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asylum","tag-border","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}