Matamoras across from Brownsville, Texas swamped with migrants
AP:
Mexican border city struggles to find space for migrants even with a new shelter
At a massive encampment near an international bridge along the U.S.-Mexico border, migrants from Honduras, Haiti, Venezuela and elsewhere have turned scraps of plastic, poster board and rope into makeshift homes.
Mexico’s immigration agency and a Catholic aid group are offering what may be at least a partial solution to conditions in this and other camps just south of Brownsville, Texas, where thousands of people wait with the hope of eventually entering the U.S. Last week, they opened a temporary outdoor shelter in Matamoros for up to 850 people.
On the first day, 500 Haitians who were living at an old gas station and about 150 people who camped by the river moved in.
The outdoor shelter appears woefully inadequate to accommodate the thousands of migrants living in the city and the others who arrive each day, Mexican authorities say it may expand.
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Brownsville is at the southern tip of Texas and you can look across the river at Matamoras. Residents of Brownsville often would go across the bridge into Matamoras to eat at restaurants there and shop at the market. That was well before the mass migration that is now underway because of Biden's open borders policies.
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