Last modified on Wed 14 Apr 2021 09.12 EDT
Groups of men, women and children stepped off small boats and on to Mexican soil without showing their documents to anyone.
Drivers quickly bundled them into taxis which sped past an immigration office to a nearby crossroad, where the travelers climbed into a vans for the next leg of their journey toward the US border.
Mexico has announced it is imposing new travel restrictions on its southern border, because of the coronavirus â its first such restrictions since the pandemic began. It has also deployed police, national guard members and immigration officers to its southern states to slow the flow of migrants from Central America.
Extra-Continental Migrants throughout the Americas Marching and Clashing Their Way Toward New Biden Border meforum.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from meforum.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A world of aspiring immigrants has now fully absorbed the welcoming words of President Joe Biden – that he will grant all comers unobstructed “catch-and-release” illegal entry over the American southern border to live and work without fear of ICE deportation. So now they are coming, in rivulets and tributaries in South America that form a river by Mexico and, always troubling to homeland security practitioners, from a diversity of nations that would surprise many Americans.
Recently, at a Peru-Brazil river border crossing, in but one emblematic instance, Peruvian police and army forces repulsed repeated violent push-through attempts by a U.S.-bound migrant caravan of 400 or so immigrants from Africa’s Ivory Coast, Sierra Leon, Senegal, and Haiti but also Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.