Mishpacha traveled to the Mexican border to put a human face on the crisis playing out just 500 feet from the US
On Site Report by Yochonon Donn, Tijuana, Mexico
Luis Morenas stared at me in disbelief when I asked why he left his homeland of Honduras to spend months in a Mexican shantytown waiting to cross the border into the United States.
“El presidente gave a promise on February 19 that this was going to be open,” he said simply, referring to President Joe Biden. “The president made a promise that he was going to help the immigrants. We are just waiting.”
During an extraordinary visit to Mexico to report on the crisis playing out just 500 feet from the United States, I got a firsthand view of that promise’s repercussions. Contrary to his administration’s denials, Biden’s liberalism, say the would-be immigrants themselves, has acted like a giant magnet drawing thousands to the Mexico-US border — and it’s unclear that the US has the resources to process these huddled masses seeking a better future. For now, they are waiting, in increasingly desperate conditions.
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