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Mar 22, 2021

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A group of migrants protests in a camp set up near the border port of Chaparral, in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, 17 March 2021. Tension, despair and uncertainty are perceived along the Mexican border due to the increase in the flow of migrants and the new policies of the US government of Joe Biden, which denied that there is a migratory crisis . EFE Joebeth Terríquez Tension on the borders of Mexico due to migratory flow and US policies !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xJoebethxTerríquezx MEX7313 20210318-637516226009663440
February 24, 2021, Mission, Texas, USA: Migrant families are guided to a U.S. Border Patrol processing area by Hidalgo County Precinct 3 Constable deputies in an area known as DevilÃ¢â‚¬â ¢s Corner in Mission, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. As the sun set, smugglers known as coyotes, started crossing mostly Central American families across the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S.. The migrants surrendered to U.S. Border Patrol agents. Mission USA - ZUMAa27_ 20210224_znn_a27_016 Copyright: xSanxAntonioxExpress-Newsx
International Organization for Migrants staff crossed the first migrants who had been in Ciudad Juarez for two years through the Paso del Norte International Bridge towards El Paso, Texas, in Ciudad Juarez. Mexico, 26 February 2021. Tijuana, Matamoros and from this Friday, Ciudad Juarez, are the three Mexican border points from where migrants are already crossing into the United States for an immigration court to review their asylum cases. On February 12, the Government of Joe Biden announced the reopening as of February 19 of the cases of asylum seekers returned to Mexico by a program run by former President Donald Trump. EFE Luis Torres Migrants stranded at the Mexican border cross into the US from three cities !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONEL Copyright: xLuisxTorresx MEX5848 20210227-637499951119817016
Migrants are waiting for information about their entry into the United States at the El Chaparral checkpoint in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, 19 February 2021. Migrants stranded in the Mexican border city of Matamoros navigated this Friday amid joy and confusion as they waited for the reopening of asylum cases by the United States after the helm blow given by Democrat Joe Biden. Illusion and uncertainty about the reopening of asylum cases by the US !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xJoebethxTerriquezx MEX5323 20210220-637493785068770935
Dozens of Central American migrants with children cross the Rio Bravo to the United States, from the border of Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, 05 February 2021. With this action and the hope that from now on the administration of the new US president Joe Biden will soften immigration policies, they are venturing into a tumultuous exodus, but the reality is different; Many of them are being detained by the Border Patrol and returned to their country with no belongings other than what they are wearing. They are taking everything from us, said one of the returnees. EFE Luis Torres Exodus of Central American migrants at the northern border of Mexico !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xLuisxTorresx MEX4595 20210206-637481768793850630
News Bilder des Tages Dozens of Central American migrants with children cross the Rio Bravo to the United States, from the border of Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, 05 February 2021. With this action and the hope that from now on the administration of the new US president Joe Biden will soften immigration policies, they are venturing into a tumultuous exodus, but the reality is different; Many of them are being detained by the Border Patrol and returned to their country with no belongings other than what they are wearing. They are taking everything from us, said one of the returnees. EFE Luis Torres Exodus of Central American migrants at the northern border of Mexico !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xLuisxTorresx MEX4596 20210206-637481768785725580
Mexico: Migration Crisis Migrants of Cuban origin cross the Rio Bravo to surrender to the immigration authorities to try to request political asylum in the United States. Juarez Chihuahua Mexico Copyright: DavidxPeinado
A new group of approximately three thousand Honduran migrants arrives in Guatemala today, after crossing the border point of El Florido, in Camotan, Guatemala, 16 January 2021. This new group of walkers joins the nearly five thousand migrants who this Saturday already travel the Guatemalan roads to Mexico, with the ultimate goal of reaching the United States. Hondurans from the migrant caravan begin to cross Guatemala to the United States !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xEstebanxBibax AME9747 20210116-637464313075302835
A new group of approximately three thousand Honduran migrants arrives in Guatemala today, after crossing the border point of El Florido, in Camotan, Guatemala, 16 January 2021. This new group of walkers joins the nearly five thousand migrants who this Saturday already travel the Guatemalan roads to Mexico, with the ultimate goal of reaching the United States. Hondurans from the migrant caravan begin to cross Guatemala to the United States !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xEstebanxBibax AME9749 20210116-637464312443124222
January 15, 2020, San Pedro Sula, Honduras: Migrants walk towards the Guatemalan border at 4am on the first day of their journey to the U.S. border. .Migrants are fleeing from extreme poverty and gang violence, hoping to find a better life in the U.S. They must travel over 3,000 miles through Guatemala and Mexico, often times with nothing but the clothes on their back, to reach the border in Tijuana, Mexico where their fate is undecided. San Pedro Sula Honduras - ZUMAs197 20200115_zab_s197_040 Copyright: xSethxSidneyxBerryx
January 15, 2020, San Pedro Sula, Honduras: Migrants march with a Honduran flag walking towards the Guatemalan border at 4am on the first day of their journey to the U.S. border. .Migrants are fleeing from extreme poverty and gang violence, hoping to find a better life in the U.S. They must travel over 3,000 miles through Guatemala and Mexico, often times with nothing but the clothes on their back, to reach the border in Tijuana, Mexico where their fate is undecided. San Pedro Sula Honduras - ZUMAs197 20200115_zab_s197_039 Copyright: xSethxSidneyxBerryx
Migrants climb the wall that divides Mexico from US Migrant walking at the beach of Tijuana in an area that is restricted by the COVID-19 contingency. Tijuana Chihuahua Mexico Copyright: DavidxPeinado
(200620) -- CIUDAD JUAREZ, June 20, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Honduran migrant Tania, carrying her son Erick in her arms, wanders around the border wall between Mexico and the United States in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 18, 2020. The U.S. administration led by President Donald Trump is taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to tighten the migration and asylum policies, said experts from Latin America. Tania, coming all the way from her home town in Honduras of Central America and hoping to enter the United States legally, now faces an unknown future. (Photo by David Peinado Xinhua) MEXICO-CIUDAD JUAREZ-COVID-19-MIGRANTS
(200121) -- MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Image provided by the daily La Jornada shows Mexican National Guards stationing along the bank of the Suchiate River to prevent Central American migrants from breaking through on Jan. 20, 2020. Hundreds of undocumented Central American migrants on Monday tried to force their way across Mexico s southern border with Guatemala. (Victor Camacho La Jornada Handout via Xinhua)- MEXICO OUT MEXICO-BORDER-CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS
(200121) -- MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Image provided by the daily La Jornada shows Mexican National Guards stationing along the bank of the Suchiate River to prevent Central American migrants from breaking through on Jan. 20, 2020. Hundreds of undocumented Central American migrants on Monday tried to force their way across Mexico s southern border with Guatemala. (Victor Camacho La Jornada Handout via Xinhua)- MEXICO OUT MEXICO-BORDER-CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS
January 20, 2020 EUM20200120NAC11 JPG TECÃöN UMÃN, Guatemala, MigrationMigracion Centroamericanos Dozens of migrants of Central American origin are trying to cross into Mexico via the Suchiate River, Monday, January 20, 2020 To enter Mexican territory, the migrants attacked elements of the National Guard that were securing the border with Guatemala Photo Agencia EL UNIVERSALEVZ - ZUMAu78_ 20200120_zaf_u78_021 Copyright: xElxUniversalx
Mexican military police watch over the border line while Central American migrants, mostly Hondurans, cross the Suchíate River that divides Mexico and Guatemala, from the city of Tecun Uman, Guatemala, 20 January 2020. Mexican immigration authorities denied on Monday the entry of hundreds of migrants who, according to Efe, began crossing the border along the Suchiate River. This group of migrants left last Wednesday towards the border with Guatemala, as part of a caravan that goes to the United States after a call in social networks. Migrants cross into Mexico along the Suchíate river after denial of entry !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xEstebanxBibax AME3602 20200120-637151477088566767
Hundreds of Central American migrants, mostly Hondurans, cross the Suchíate River that divides Mexico and Guatemala, from the city of Tecun Uman, Guatemala, 20 January 2020. Mexican immigration authorities denied on Monday the entry of hundreds of migrants who, according to Efe, began crossing the border along the Suchiate River. This group of migrants left last Wednesday towards the border with Guatemala, as part of a caravan that goes to the United States after a call in social networks. Migrants cross into Mexico along the Suchíate river after denial of entry !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xEstebanxBibax AME3542 20200120-637151431172490913
Migrants wait before crossing the bridge that allows the passage to Mexico, in Tecun Umam, Guatemala, 20 January 2020. Although his entry into Mexico was scheduled for Sunday, members of the migrant caravan on the border of Guatemala announced that they would postpone their crossing until Monday morning because they still wait for other partners, with whom they estimate to add between 5,000 and 8,000 people. Hundreds of migrants wait to cross border to Mexico !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xEstebanxBibax AME3473 20200120-637151343875623010
Photograph taken from a drone that shows the arrival of Honduran migrants to the border between Guatemala and Mexico, in Ciudad Hidalgo, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, 20 January 2020. Thousands of Central Americans from the migrant caravan arrived on Monday morning at the Rodolfo Robles border bridge, which connects the Guatemalan city of Tecun Uman with the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. New members of the migrant caravan crowd in the Guatemala-Mexico border !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xUlisesxAndradex MEX3314 20200120-637151340698850581
June 25, 2019, Sunland Park, New Mexico, USA: A Border Patrol SUV drives down a steep hill at the border fence or border wall along the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park, New Mexico which was built with funds from a GoFundMe account. Sunland Park USA - ZUMAga3_ 20190625_zap_ga3_001 Copyright: xJohnxGastaldox
August 19, 2019, Lukeville, Arizona, US: US Border Patrol along the border fence in Lukeville, Arizona. This two mile portion of the fence will be torn down starting this week and replaced by 30 foot tall steel Bollard wall. 38.6 miles of the existing vehicle barriers that runs along the border with Mexico in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refugee and Organ Pipe Cactus Monument will be replaced by a wall but the work has been postponed until October. Various environmental groups have sued to halt construction and matter is back before a Federal judge. The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use funds obtained through the budget of the DOD to replace existing fencing with a 30 foot wall in this sector Lukeville US - ZUMAb411 20190819_zap_b411_009 Copyright: xChristopherxBrownx
A group of Central American migrants dodged the Mexican National Guard located on the border of Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua, and crossed the Rio Grande that separates Mexico with the United States, then they were arrested by the Border Patrol. July 25, 2019. JairxCabreraxTorresx xLexPictorium LePictorium_0212307
A group of Central American migrants dodged the Mexican National Guard located on the border of Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua, and crossed the Rio Grande that separates Mexico with the United States, then they were arrested by the Border Patrol. July 25, 2019. JairxCabreraxTorresx xLexPictorium LePictorium_0212306
July 3, 2019 - Nogales, Arizona, US - 4th of July parade in Nogales, Arizona. The parade passes by the border wall between Mexico and Arizona that has been fortified with barbed wire by the US Army. Nogales US - ZUMAb411 20190703_zap_b411_038 Copyright: xChristopherxBrownx
A view of U.S. Border Patrol officers as they rescue migrants from the Rio Bravo s sewers, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 01 May 2019. Dozens turn themselves to the US Border Patrol agents daily to undergo a process of admission to the country. US Border Patrol officers rescue migrants at the Rio Bravo s sewers !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xDavidxPeinadox MEX1029 20190501-636923379896901700
Dozens of Central American citizens get on the train La Bestia (The Beast) , in the municipality of Arriaga, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, 25 April 2019. The train goes to the center of Mexico, where de groups of people follow its journey to the US border. Migrants continue their passage through Mexico despite immigration checkpoints !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xCarlosxLopezx MEX604 20190425-636918133976851639
Migrants wait at the El Paso bridge over Bravo river in Ciudad Juarez at the border between Mexico and US, 16 April 2019. Daily in Ciudad Juarez dozens of Central American migrants cross the Bravo river to try get political asylum from US authorities. Migrants crossing the Bravo river in Ciudad Juarez !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xDavidxPeinadox MEX097 20190416-636910421237683282
April 14, 2019 - Juarez-El Paso, Mexico - Man rests under the wall that divides Mexico from United States on the side of the international bridge..at the border City Juarez-El paso Texas on 14 April 2019. Juarez-El Paso Mexico - ZUMAn230 20190414_zaa_n230_871 Copyright: xDavidxPeinadox
Mexico: Army of USA arrived at the border between Juarez and El Paso Soldiers from the United States, arrived at the border between Juarez and El Paso, Texas, United States, to take care of the frontier border, of the migrants, installed barbed wire near the wall that divides both countries Juarez Chihuahua Mexico DavidxPeinado
Mexico: Army of USA arrived at the border between Juarez and El Paso Soldiers from the United States, arrived at the border between Juarez and El Paso, Texas, United States, to take care of the frontier border, of the migrants, installed barbed wire near the wall that divides both countries Juarez Chihuahua Mexico DavidxPeinado
USA, Zoll- und Grenzschutzkommissar Kevin K. McAleenan besucht Grenze zu Mexiko in El Paso Migrants are shown being held for processing under the Paso del Norte Bridge in El Paso on March 27, 2019. Nearby, United States Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan addressed the dramatic increase in illegal crossings that continues along the Southwest border at a press conference in El Paso, Texas on Wednesday March 27, 2019. He appealed to lawmakers for more resources to handle the unprecedented migration surge. ELP2019032734611 JUSTINxHAMEL
Dozens of migrants try to enter the United States illegally from the Playas Tijuana area in the Mexican state of Baja California, Mexico, 19 March 2019. Around 16.00 local time (23.00 GMT), the migrants, almost a hundred according to the witnesses, arrived at the seashore in the Mexican town to try to jump the metal fence that in this area delimits the border between the two countries. Migrants climb the wall in northwest Mexico and illegally cross into the US !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG! Copyright: xJoebethxTerriquezx AME9163 20190320-636886561186415301
March 13, 2019 - Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico - Kids are seen playing near the diving border wall between the United States and Mexico where many asylum seekers have crossed. In February 2019, around 76,000 fled from the southern border into the United states in order to find a better live. Tijuana Mexico - ZUMAs197 20190313_zaa_s197_197 Copyright: xMeganxJelingerx
Mexico: Migrants cross the border Migrants cross the Rio Grande to the United States, in front of the construction of the wall that divides the border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and the United States. On December 11, the President of the United States went to Texas to promote the construction of the wall as part of his re-election campaign Juarez chihuahua United States juarez DavidxPeinado
USA: Migrant containment exercises Migration agents from the United States carry out simulation of migrant containment in the border of Ciudad Juarez in the Sunland Park area. This drill was observed in the Anapra colony near the mesh that divides Mexico from the United States. helicopter, explosives and paint guns were used. El Paso Texas United States DavidxPeinado
The view of the border wall in Jacumba, California that separates the United States and Mexico on January 3, 2019. The new U.S. House of Representatives approved a legislative package aimed at ending the partial government shutdown by funding Homeland Security at current levels but no money to expand the wall and fencing that presently exists. JAC2019010303 ARIANAxDREHSLER
A border patrol agent stands near the border fence that divides the United States and Mexico at Border Field State Park in San Diego, California on December 10, 2018. SDP2018121045 ARIANAxDREHSLER
Migrants traveling with a caravan look through the border fence into the United States at Playas de Tijuana in Tijuana, Mexico on November 28, 2018. TIJ20181128209 ARIANAxDREHSLER

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Mexico: Migration Crisis Migrants of Cuban origin cross the Rio Bravo to surrender to the immigration authorities to try to request political asylum in the United States. Juarez Chihuahua Mexico Copyright: DavidxPeinado

Migrants climb the wall that divides Mexico from US Migrant walking at the beach of Tijuana in an area that is restricted by the COVID-19 contingency. Tijuana Chihuahua Mexico Copyright: DavidxPeinado

July 3, 2019 - Nogales, Arizona, US - 4th of July parade in Nogales, Arizona. The parade passes by the border wall between Mexico and Arizona that has been fortified with barbed wire by the US Army. Nogales US - ZUMAb411 20190703_zap_b411_038 Copyright: xChristopherxBrownx

April 14, 2019 - Juarez-El Paso, Mexico - Man rests under the wall that divides Mexico from United States on the side of the international bridge..at the border City Juarez-El paso Texas on 14 April 2019. Juarez-El Paso Mexico - ZUMAn230 20190414_zaa_n230_871 Copyright: xDavidxPeinadox

A border patrol agent stands near the border fence that divides the United States and Mexico at Border Field State Park in San Diego, California on December 10, 2018. SDP2018121045 ARIANAxDREHSLER

Migrants traveling with a caravan look through the border fence into the United States at Playas de Tijuana in Tijuana, Mexico on November 28, 2018. TIJ20181128209 ARIANAxDREHSLER