US border military and Mexican officers stop over 1000 migrants rushing to enter USA via El Paso bridge
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US border military and Mexican officers stop over 1000 migrants rushing to enter USA via El Paso bridge

On Sunday, heavily armed Mexican military and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers repelled a group of more than 1,000 migrants attempting to rush the El Paso border.

The group charged along the border road and pushed past the Mexican side of the Paso Del Norte bridge, forcing CBP to erect barricades of barbed wire and physical barriers to prevent any crossings.

The group was mostly made up of young men, but also included women and young children. CBP officers said they “implemented port hardening measures,” including the use of fencing and concrete barricades, temporarily preventing northbound traffic at the bridge.

Mexican National Guardsman stand guard on the Paso del Norte International Bridge after it was closed by Mexican and US authorities on March 12

According to one reporter on the ground, a portion of the group was able to be pushed by CBP officials, while another group decided to gather around smaller bridges, including the Stanton Bridge and the Bridge of the Americas, which also led to the use of barricades by CBP officials armed with batons and riot shields. Others attempted to cross the border into the US by crossing the river.

The incident followed a sharp drop in illegal border crossings since December, when US President Joe Biden announced that Mexico would take back Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans under a pandemic-era rule that denies migrants the right to seek asylum as part of an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

At the same time, the US agreed to admit up to 30,000 of those four nationalities on humanitarian parole if they apply online, enter at an airport, and find a financial sponsor.

The US administration has also proposed generally denying asylum to anyone who travels through another country on their way to the US without seeking protection there – effectively all non-Mexicans who appear at the US southern border.

Agents detained migrants more than 2.5 million times at the southern border in 2022, including more than 250,000 in December, the highest on record.

According to a US official who was not authorised to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, Border Patrol agents stopped migrants about 130,000 times in February, similar to January.


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