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Added on the 26/09/2023 03:00:09 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Migrants in Mexico's Matamoros cross the Rio Grande in an attempt to enter the United States a day before the end of so-called Title 42, a set of pandemic-era restrictions that have forbidden virtually all asylum claims there in the last years. IMAGES
Migrants continue crossing between the United States and Mexico by wading through the Rio Bravo river (known as Rio Grande in the US), as the US struggles to stem a massive influx of undocumented people, many of them from Haiti. IMAGES
At least 10,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, are stranded in Necoclí, a port town on the Colombian coast near Panama. According to the local ombudsman, the migrants are held up waiting for boats to take them to the border with the Central American country, in the hope of eventually reaching the United States. IMAGES
The last, mostly Haitian migrants who camped illegally under a Texas bridge, sparking a major border crisis for President Joe Biden's administration, have left or been removed, US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas tells reporters at the White House. SOUNDBITE
Migrants cross between the United States and Mexico by wading through the Rio Bravo river (known as Rio Grande in the US), as the US struggles to stem a massive influx of undocumented people, many from Haiti. IMAGES