The owner of a bar located on the southern border in Texas says migrants are hiding in their bathrooms and trucks as they try to escape from the authorities – the latest sign of an increase on the southern border.
“When I go in the morning, sometimes I go to work, there are people in the bathroom; hides in the bathrooms, ”said Lupe Cabrera, owner of“ Cabrera’s Bar ”to the National Review. “My brother and I also have a truck company. They will hide in the trucks.”
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The outlet reports that the situation of the bar in Granjeno, along the Rio Grande, has already become an almost daily occurrence. His bar is close to the border wall – the construction of which President Biden has interrupted – and there is an unfinished section near Cabrera’s bar.
Cabrera told the agency that he has seen an increase in the number of migrants in recent weeks, although this is a destination for migrants who pass through there.
“Most of the people I see are harmless,” Cabrera told National Review, “but you never know what the hell is going on, who is crossing or what.”
The border has seen a dramatic increase in the number of migrants in recent weeks – particularly unaccompanied children and family units.
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CBP found 100,441 individuals in February, an increase of 28 percent over January, the agency said. Of these, 19,246 individuals belonged to family units; 9,457 were unaccompanied children (UACs) and 71,598 were single adults.
So far, meetings in fiscal year 2021 so far are 97 percent higher than in fiscal 2020 and 24 percent higher than in fiscal year 2019 – when there was a crisis at the border. In fiscal year 2021 through February, authorities found 29,792 UACs and single minors – more than 3,000 of these children are under 12 and 26,850 are between 13 and 17.
Republicans linked the increase to Biden’s policies – which include the end of the Protective Migrant Protocols and the limitation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prisons – and described the situation as a crisis.
The government rejected this statement and called it a “challenge”, but not a crisis, as it seeks to reverse what it describes as cruel policies of the Trump era.
“You know, I think … I’m not trying to be cute here, but I think the fact of the matter is: we have to do what we do regardless of what someone calls the situation,” Roberta Jacobson, coordinator for the southern border, said in a press conference on Wednesday.
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“And the fact is that we are all focused on improving the situation, on moving to a more humane and efficient system. And whatever you call it, it wouldn’t change what we’re doing because we have an urgent need, from the president down, to fix our system and make sure we’re dealing better with the hopes and dreams of these migrants in their home country, Is it over there.