is director, U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee. He lives in Chula Vista.
Last month, I spoke with a mother of two teenage boys at the Chaparral migrant encampment in Tijuana, who I’ll call Julia. Julia left her hometown in Mexico because a gang threatened her boys and disabled her husband when he defended them. When she and her family arrived in Tijuana, she discovered that people connected to the gang in her hometown were in Tijuana, and she was strongly considering having her boys cross without her to the United States. Julia had heard that if she crossed with them, Border Patrol would return her family to Mexico under a Trump-era order known as Title 42, which President Joe Biden uses to remove thousands from the United States. This would have compromised her boys’ safety.
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