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A Haitian migrant who is taking part in Mexico’s largest migrant caravan to the United States is urging President Biden to keep his promise to allow them to stay once they reach the border.
“He promised the Haitian community that he would help them,” said the migrants, who were interviewed by Fox News Friday. “He will remember Title 42. He will help us get real refuge.”
The migrant is participating in a caravan that could become the largest to ever reach the southern border of the United States, with the current number of nearly 10,000 migrants expected to rise to about 15,000 before reaching the border.
The caravan left Tapachula on the border between Mexico and Guatemala on Monday. Migrants, who come mainly from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, will travel on what is known as a coastal route to reach the US border.
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The migrants are marching in a caravan heading to Mexico City, in Pijiapan, Mexico in 2021. The new caravan is expected to be the largest ever.
“We think we are about 9,500, 51/2 km are measured from start to finish, people keep joining, in the first police check there were about 100-150 National Guards, INM, state police and they released us,” said the organizer. of the Caravan Luis Villagran to Fox News on Monday.
The migrant’s comments come as the Biden administration continues to fight to end Title 42, a Trump-era rule that allows the United States to expel asylum seekers without the typical legal process. The policy was introduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to prevent the virus from spreading, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announcing earlier this year that it plans to revoke the order.
But a lawsuit filed by 24 states has at least temporarily halted plans to end the rule, with a U.S. Louisiana district judge ruling that the restrictions could remain in place until the case is resolved. The United States says removing the rule would lead to a “wave of illegal migration and drug trafficking.”
President Biden. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
Critics accuse the president of creating what has become a crisis at the southern border, arguing that Biden’s reversal of Trump-era immigration policies has spurred migrants to embark on a perilous journey through Mexico to the US border.
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The crisis has become a political challenge for the White House, which seems to change Biden’s mood when it comes to asylum seekers in the United States.
“Don’t leave your city, town or community,” Biden said in an interview with ABC last year. “We will make sure that we have facilities in these cities and towns managed by DHS departments, as well as access to HHS, health and human services, to say that you can apply for asylum from where you are. now.”
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehend migrant near US-Mexico border fence in Calexico, California, USA on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. The number of illegal immigrants detained while trying to cross the southern border is slightly lower than the last time a month was when the crossings were at a 21-year high, NBC News reported. Photographer: Eric Thayer / Bloomberg via Getty Images (Eric Thayer / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But the administration’s fight to end Title 42 seems to have sent a different message to the caravan’s migrants, who are urging Biden to allow them into the country. “
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“We need him to keep his promise now.” said the Haite migrant.
Fox News’s Griffin Jenkins contributed to this report.
Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee
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