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US Migrants-Title 42
HEADLINE: Migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, Disappointed With US Title 42 Ruling
TEASER: Judge's decision has blocked the lifting of the measure that was planned for Monday
PUBLISHED AT: 05/23/2022 at
BYLINE: Mike O’Sullivan
CONTRIBUTOR: Vicente Calderon, Aline Barros
DATELINE: Tijuana
VIDEOGRAPHER: Mike O’Sullivan
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((INTRODUCTION))
[[Migrants who have been waiting in Mexico say they are disappointed with a U.S. court ruling Friday that extends Title 42, a public measure that U.S. authorities have used to prevent most asylum hopefuls from entering the United States since March 2020. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Tijuana, Mexico.]]
((SHOW MARCHERS WITH SIGNS))
((NARRATOR))
Mexicans, Central Americans and Haitians, migrants waiting in [[Tijuana?]] Mexico with no foreseeable relief.
((NATS UP – MARCHERS CHANTING))
((SHOW WOMAN DISPLAYING PHOTO OF MAN))
This woman says her brother disappeared more than two years ago in the Mexican state of Michoacan, a probable cartel victim.
((SHOW WOMAN SHOWING FILE))
She has documented death threats against her.
((SHOW CHILDREN RUNNING WITH CANDY))
Things are safer in this migrant shelter, like the one where she has been staying. For the children, a rare moment of levity.
((SHOW WOMAN PREPARING FOOD, SHOWING CELLPHONE VIDEO OF DAMAGED HOME IN HONDURAS))
This shelter resident lost her home when two successive hurricanes swept through Honduras in November 2020. She’s still waiting in Tijuana for the opening of the border, now stalled by the courts.
((Ana Morazan, Displaced Honduran)) ((Female Speaking Spanish))
"Well, my hope every day diminishes a bit more. Because, imagine that they haven't revoked Title 42. We don't know when (they will revoke it). And I've been here for a year."
((SHOW PEOPLE IN CHURCH SERVICE))
A Pentecostal church runs this shelter, and Sunday, residents heard good news from several people who have been granted temporary admission to the United States under what is called humanitarian parole. They include this young mother from violent Michoacan.
((Yazbeth Marin Mata, Mexican Migrant)) ((Female Speaking Spanish))
“I was in my house. It was last year. I was with my son and no one else in a house that belonged to his grandfather. It was there they killed him."
((FADE AUDIO, COTINUE SHOWING WOMAN))
((NARRATION))
Four to five years ago, cartel members killed her father-in-law. Last year, they returned with guns and threatened her.
((SHOW PASTOR POINTING OUR BULLET HOLES OUTSIDE AND INSIDE SHELTER))
((NARRATOR))
But this part of Tijuana is also torn by violence. Nearby, warring cartels recently held gunfights on three successive days, and bullets entered the shelter.
((SHOW CELLPHONE VIDEO))
((COURTESY: Albert Rivera))
((NARRATOR))
A migrant was struck in the neck but survived.
((SHOW WORKERS DOINGS INTRODUCTION))
The shelter now holds 600 migrants and is expanding to hold another 600. The pastor who runs it hopes the United States will settle its migrant policy once and for all.
((Albert Rivera, Agape Mision Mundial President)) [[when I google - I don’t see that he’s the president?]] ((Speaking English))
“We just want to do the things right. But the United States don’t make up their mind. The judge doesn’t make up their mind. Congress doesn’t make up their mind. There’s no political will.”
((SHOW PASTOR WITH KIDS, OTHER CHILDREN IN SHELTER))
((NARRATOR))
Even when Title 42 is finally lifted at the border, only those with a strong case for asylum or humanitarian assistance will qualify to enter and remain in the United States.
((Mike O’Sullivan, VOA News, Tijuana, Mexico.)
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