translated from Spanish: Saturated migrants Ciudad Juarez | DISCUSSION

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (agency reform)-increasingly become more migrants to Ciudad Juarez, both deported Mexicans as Central Americans seeking to cross to States Unidos.Lee also: seek in the Valley of Juarez women desaparecidasDatos the National Institute of migration (INM) indicate that until July, they were deported across the border of 8 thousand six Mexican Chihuahua, of which 7 thousand 335 were adults and 671 children.

Migrants do not fear the “Trump wall” and insist on crossing to the United States. Photo: Agency reform the number of deportees in the first seven months of this year, surpassed the 5 thousand 804 registered in 2017, year in which fell the number compared to 2016, when there were 12 thousand 66 nationals returned to total city.the , 12 thousand 066 deported in 2016, a total of 10 thousand 551 were adults and a thousand 515 minor, while in 2017, the 5 thousand deportees 804, 4 thousand 833 were elderly and 971 minors.  The priest Francisco Javier Calvillo, director of the House of the migrant from Ciudad Juarez, recalled that in 2016 many people “threw it” to cross the border, but explains that this figure fell in 2017.
“And right now they again deportations and we see that there are between 80 and 100 a day,” says.

The migrants, who is a daily observer of the phenomenon in Juarez, they keep coming despite the border wall.
“I perceive that you as people in one way or another not has affected le both of the wall”, explained.

“Migrants commented ‘we don’t deter us the walls, we will continue along our walk’ and think that”, says. The Casa del Migrante statistics shows that in 2016 it attended to 9 thousand 511 people, including Mexican and Central American and the month where more people asked hostel was November, with thousand 472 people. 

While in 2017 the sum total was 5 thousand 549, almost 4 thousand less compared to 2016, where the month with more housed migrants was June, adding a total of 587.Hace a year, recalled the priest, there were days in which arrived five or 10 people a week , but that has changed.  On the other hand, this 2018 Calvillo said that it has picked up the number of people seeking refuge, since from January to August of this 2018 6 thousand were seen 490 people. Read also: “Whole families live under the bridge”: migrants in SaltilloLos Mexican deportees arrive at the Casa del Migrante through the Beta Group of the National Institute of migration, while they attend the town hall to ask for economic support and that way buy the ticket of bus that will return them to their places of origin. Central Americans, meanwhile, arrive on their own as they prepare to seek political asylum in an international crossing or to cross undocumented way. 

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