Cuban migrants protest at Mexico border
A large number of Cubans protested in the U.S. border in the northern Mexican metropolis of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday night, demanding they be permitted to cross and say asylum in America.
U.S. authorities, including police in anti-riot gear, shut off the bridge that leads into El Paso, Texas, with a concrete barrier topped with barbed cable.A good recording blared from a loudspeaker caution that anybody who crossed could be arrested.
Late in to the evening, some 200 migrants who had walked best up to the barrier stayed set. Jonathan Castro, 25, said he has spent one year and eight months in Mexico after attempting to demand asylum in America, and is prepared to protest at the bridge through the entire night. Like a great many other Cubans, he was sent back across the border beneath the "Remain in Mexico" program - a key piece of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline policy to curb migration by producing asylum seekers hang on out their proceedings in Mexico.
"We're fed up waiting around," he stated, adding that the group possessed produced at the border after expression circulated that U.S. authorities were ready to let them cross.
Cuban migrant Rauvel Tejeda, who has spent practically as long in Mexico beneath the same circumstances, said he was sick and tired of poor treatment by Mexican police, and wanted "a small amount of help" from both Mexico and America.
