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By: Erin Sheridan November 24, 2019December 3, 2019
Articles, U.S./Mexico Border

Matamoros, Mexico Mid-November

Photos from a visit to camps of refugees living near the Matamoros side of the Gateway International Bridge on November 18.

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Instagram post 2191175347889233408_12838680029 Multiple camp residents said that officials with Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (Instituto Nacional de Migración, INM), swept through the camp around 6 a.m. A young woman from Honduras played a video she took on her cell phone showing Mexican authorities dismantling tents. “I don’t know why they got rid of them,” she said.
Instagram post 2191174789652500738_12838680029 Both refugees and volunteers said that an estimated 60 families, all Mexican nationals, were granted permission by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to cross the bridge and begin processing in the middle of the night. Guidelines provided by CBP indicate that Mexican nationals are not subject to the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols, however, a significant number of asylum seekers in the camp appear to be from states in southern Mexico, including Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Instagram post 2191173321067325411_12838680029 Mexican immigration officials arrived at a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico early Tuesday morning bearing machetes used to destroy unoccupied tents left behind by Mexican asylum seekers, according to multiple camp residents who witnessed the event. Link in bio.
Instagram post 2186673259762965770_12838680029 Latest article was republished in today’s edition of Truthout. Link in bio. “A lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Brownsville, Texas, last Wednesday on the behalf of a 23-year-old woman who fled Honduras and was returned to the streets of Matamoros, Mexico, by U.S. immigration authorities in late July. The petition filed on the behalf of the woman (identified as X.E.G.M. under conditions of anonymity requested by two San Antonio-based attorneys with San Antonio Region Justice For Our Neighbors) was one of a series of writ of habeas corpus petitions filed on the behalf of migrants in removal proceedings in the Rio Grande Valley this month.”
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Instagram post 2184685860040335021_12838680029 New story. Link in bio. “In the petition filed on Wednesday, attorneys wrote that the woman appeared at multiple hearings in the tent court system and had yet to be granted a bond hearing or to have her case properly terminated by an immigration judge, unduly prolonging her homelessness. This is a common experience among asylum seekers in Matamoros, who say that judges are aware that they’re homeless, yet continue to schedule hearings months down the road. The dozens of refugees who cross the bridge to the tent courts are refused entry if they’re not adequately clean while being checked for lice and bruises.”
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Instagram post 2184678699692256666_12838680029 Fishing for food + washing laundry in the Rio Grande. Nov. 18.
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Instagram post 2184471179564466541_12838680029 1: A copy of a police report filed by camp residents whose seven and nine-year-old daughters were sexually assaulted at the entrance to the bridge (the man was never arrested). // 2: A boy walks through the camp nearest the bridge after dinner. // 3: Shoes, toys, and animal crackers soaked during a cold front. // 4: Broken rosary beads in the mud along the Rio Grande. // 5: A woman from Cuba shows the skin disease, caused by stress, that covers her entire body.
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Instagram post 2183219635783344821_12838680029 Recently deported men arrive in Matamoros.
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Instagram post 2182492552320963799_12838680029 In early November, an immigration official at Repatriación Humana in Matamoros attempted to take a table from volunteers feeding refugees and groups of deported men arriving from the U.S. near the camps. Enrique Maciel, Regional Delegate for the Tamaulipas Institute for Migrants, had given the group verbal permission. He had to return to the camp to de-escalate the situation. Residents of the camp nearest the building said that the official who tried to take the table regularly kicks refugees off the property in the morning.
Instagram post 2179605674953421558_12838680029 From a story published in The Brownsville Herald today: “The judge was fumbling with the papers like he didn’t even read them. They know that we’re living in these conditions. If you show up alone, they do whatever they want with you. If you have an attorney who knows the law, the judges don’t know what to do. It’s like they’re not even judges.” Link in bio.
Instagram post 2179570183289958234_12838680029 A collection of photographs from a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico at the entrance to the Gateway International Bridge from Oct. 27 – Nov. 14, 2019. Asylum seekers who arrive at ports of entry along the U.S/Mexico border are returned to the streets of Mexico while their cases are adjudicated in U.S. immigration courts as a result of the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, “Remain in Mexico” policy). MPP was announced in December 2018 and was officially implemented in late January 2019, although local volunteer networks say that groups of migrants fleeing violent conditions began waiting on the bridge as early as June of the previous year. Link in bio.
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