Minutes After Title 42 Expired, Scenes of Anxiety and Weariness Along the Border
Julia Hermosa Gamara and her husband and 13-year-old daughter raced through the reeds and bushes along the Mexican side of the border with Arizona, running as fast as they could to make it across the Colorado River and into the United States before Title 42 lifted.
They got to the border wall a few minutes late. As they stood waiting for a bus to take them and about five dozen other migrants into custody, Ms. Gamara, 49, worried that they had missed their window and would be sent back. The Biden administration has said anyone arriving without using a lawful pathway would be presumed ineligible for asylum.
“They’re going to deport us,” Ms. Gamara said, crying and holding her husband’s hand. “They’re not going to let us enter.”
The family said they were fleeing violence and death threats in the Peruvian city of Ayacucho, where security forces recently killed demonstrators. Ms. Gamara said her father had been killed by guerrillas in the 1980s, and she worried her family would be targeted if they were sent back to Peru.
Source: The New York Times
