(5 Nov 2024)
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Ciudad Juárez, Mexico – 4 November 2024
1. Aerial shot of border wall ++MUTE++
2. Migrants waiting for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) appointments
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Malby Peña, migrant from Venezuela:
"It is worrisome because suddenly that opportunity could be gone. It is a hope, it is a door that can close so we really don’t know. I don’t know much about politics and to say who I want to win, I don’t know. I can say that I hope God willing the best wins and that it can be a blessing for many people who need this opportunity."
4. Various of migrants walking on Paso del Norte International Bridge
5. Various of migrants getting help with their CBP One appointment at the State Population Council
6. SOUNDBITE (English) James Yong, UNHCR Head of Field Office in Ciudad Juárez:
"There are concerns, very grave concerns, about limiting access to asylum, putting more pressure on the asylum space and the asylum process, where people who aren’t asylum seekers are going to use the same channels, and that means you are just creating a bigger backlog and a bigger number of people trying to use the same process, get through the same door."
7. Family by the Paso del Norte International Bridge
8. Mother and son standing by a U.S. flag on the Paso del Norte International Bridge
9. Various of discarded clothes
STORYLINE:
On the riverbanks of Ciudad Juárez, there are no migrants in sight, but evidence of previous crossings still litters the ground and discarded clothes are entangled in razor wire by the wall.
Migrants are no longer sleeping overnight in large numbers on downtown streets either.
It’s a return to relative calm after an unprecedented surge of immigrants across the U.S. southern border in recent years.
As Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump make their final campaign push in elections that will come to an end in a matter of hours, migrants in Mexico are holding their breath.
“It’s a hope, a door that can be closed,” said Malby Peña, a migrant from Venezuela. “God willing the best wins.”
In the early hours of Monday, a short line of migrants from all over Latin America, papers in hand, waited to cross the border to El Paso, Texas and attend their long-awaited CBP One appointment.
It was a scene that surely contrasts with the images months earlier of migrants trying to break through or crawling under the razor wire.
Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico fell 7% in September to a more than four-year low. On top of that, Mexican authorities sharply increased enforcement within their borders in December. Plus, President Joe Biden introduced major asylum restrictions in June this year.
The Border Patrol made 53,858 arrests, down from 58,009 in August and the lowest tally since August 2020.
The White House touted the numbers as proof that severe asylum restrictions introduced in June were having the intended effect, and blamed congressional Republicans for opposing a border security bill that failed in February.
Vice President Kamala Harris has used that line of attack against Trump to try to blunt criticism that the Biden administration has been weak on immigration enforcement.
The Biden administration has promoted new and expanded legal pathways to enter the country in an effort to discourage illegal crossings.
In September, CBP allowed more than 44,600 people to enter with appointments on an online system called CBP One, bringing the total to 852,000 since it was introduced in January 2023.
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