Please turn out the lights ?
I've posted a bit about my friend Dania and her two daughters and their journey north.
They finally arrived yesterday afternoon at the Yuma Gap, the punto du jour for migrant crossing.
https://www.borderreport.com/regions...five-day-span/
Dania sent me a pic of the border fence from her hotel room. More fortunate than most,, she and her daughters have stayed in hotels, warm and well fed during the journey.
They were supposed to present themselves to the border patrol this morning.
I haven't heard anything, which might mean that they were successful and are in "processing"
Cell phones are taken away during the detention period, which we hope is brief.
Nominally,, Remain in Mexico has returned,, and the plan was to bus the migrants,, after a Covid shot and some information taking,, to somewhere in Texas,, Juarez I believe, where facilities are waiting for them.
The sheer number of migrants passing through the Yuma Gap is overwhelming the Border Patrol,, which doesn't even have the resources to pick them up.
To load them in buses and ship them to Juarez a week before Christmas seems --at best, not doable.
I suspect, like the Haitians at the Del Rio bridge,, they will all be cut loose.
At least the families.
Biden is not going to risk a "Kids in Cages at Christmas" photo.
So,, with luck,, Dania will be on her way to Phoenix in a couple of days,, and from there, on to her husband in Connecticut. With a court date for her asylum hearing in ten years.
In six months she can apply for a work permit.
Dania said that the prior day,, six migrants from Condega crossed, but had to wait hours for a Border Patrol contact. The migrants are all connected via WhatsAPP, allowing communication between themselves,, and to family scattered over the world.
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