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San Ysidro, California – When humanitarian relief workers decided to dismantle their complex preparation – which were built directly on the border wall – they did not see immigrants for a month.
A year ago, when the historical numbers of migrants reach the border, the American Friends Service Committee, a national organization from the establishment of human rights, came to help them. Ultimately, the group received enough donations to make three caliber, as it stored food, clothes and medical supplies.
However, the immigrant crossings slowed down soon, which led to a remarkable change to the scene along the far south of California.
The shelters that were received as soon as the migrants were closed and temporary camps where immigrants are waiting for treatment, and non -profit organizations began to convert their services to firm immigrants in the United States who face deportation, or migrants stuck in southern Mexico.
Meanwhile, the border patrol, with the help of 750 American military soldiers, has strengthened six miles of the border wall with Constina wires.
The Coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee, Adriana Jaco, fill out clothes, food, water and other supplies that were once provided to immigrants crossing to the United States in a region called Yousaki 8 in San Ysidro.
On another day at the relief station held by the Service Committee a few miles to the west from the border crossing in San Yisidero, only one remained an empty umbrella. Three relief workers wearing blue surgical gloves were worshiping boxes called “Children/Moisturizing”, “Tea and Coco Hot” and “Small Jacket”. They were not needed now.
The border patrol agents in the San Diego sector are now about 30 to 40 arrests per day, according to the agency. This fell from more than 1,200 a day during the height of migrant expatriates to the region in April.
Adriana Jaco, who coordinates the United States and Mexico, recalled the service committee, that the feverish time and assistance efforts in the group. “This was the first time that we took over this level of providing humanitarian aid,” said Jaco.
But these days, she said: “It is the closure of an experience – at the present time. Because life can be unexpected.”
In May 2023, the Biden administration ended a policy during the epidemic era, according to which immigrants refused the right to search for asylum and quickly returned to Mexico. Initially to change politics, immigrants came down to the border by thousands.
They are parallel to a large part of the border barrier near San Diego. The asylum seekers began to expand the scope of the fence closest to Mexico and hand over themselves to border patrol agents, who will ask them to wait there between the coins for treatment.
The days often passed before the agents returned to the area, known as the whiskey 8. Meanwhile, Gaso and its colleagues cleared the hot and fresh fruits and the back of the back through the holes in the fence.
The last time Jaco saw any migrants there was February 15-a group of 20 people mostly consisting of men from India and China.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is volunteering Emma Starki in an area called Yousaki 8 in San Ysidro. Starki said of the immigrants: “It has been around a month since we have seen anyone,” Starki said of the immigrants.
Then a storm came, which led to the removal of two curtains. Jaco and her team took this as a sign of the rest. The unpleasant smell of the polluted Tijuana River in the morning air, where Jasu moved the plastic shelves unit from the canopy.
Inside the umbrella, one of the last remaining elements was a stuffed mini mouse, and its shaded pink shoes in gray with dirt. A little girl handed her over to Jasu via the fence.
Jaco said, “The border patrol refused to allow it to take it,” Jaco said. “I promised her that I would take care of her and that someone would love her as she did.”
Just as Jaco was expressing in whiskey 8, the Batrol border held a press conference a few miles away.
It was parked on the border wall, the east of the San Ysidro Border crossing, the SANTROTIA, and the Green Humvee as a background to clarify the partnership between the internal security and defense departments.
A couple of American soldiers is looking forward to Tijuana located behind the border wall with a new CONESTEM wire along the borders of the United States and Mexico near San Ysidro.
A gate was opened in the barrier, and the borders of the Marines, and the officials of the army, showed how both walls were washed into the incoming wires.
Sustable music can be heard from Tijuana, where building workers were building a high way on the wall separating Mexico from the United States
The forces created “Aqaba’s design” by welding metal bars at the top of the fence, indicating to Mexico, and connecting more layers of wires to it.
Jeffrey Stalker, Acting Chairman of the Patrol in the San Diego sector, said the additional wires, which have been installed since the arrival of the forces on January 23, have slowed illegal entries.
Stalker said that federal prosecutors in San Diego had accepted more than 1,000 border criminal cases this fiscal year. After Trump’s introductory threats, Mexico pledged to send it 10,000 National Guard soldiers To its northern borders. Stalnker said that these forces are now meeting with US agents several times a week and are conducting simultaneous patrols on their sides of the border.
Building workers in Tijuana are the top of the border wall, which includes a new wire along the borders of the United States and Mexico near San Ysidro.
He said: “What we see behind us here is the result of a real effort for the government, starting with the marine infantry that puts miles of wire wire along the border infrastructure, to the soldiers who run our domain trucks and video surveillance cameras from a distance.”
Only border patrol agents can arrest immigrants who are entering the country illegally, but Stalnker said that the use of military individuals to discover migrants had released agents to spend more time in this field.
Last April, San Diego became the upper area along the border for migrant expatriates for the first time in decades. Stalker said that there is a 70 % decrease in migrant arrests so far in this fiscal year, compared to the same period last year.
“The saying that there was a dramatic change would be low,” he said.
But Stalkker noticed that the limits of borders expect an increase in migrant attempts to enter California by boat “as we continue to close and secure the border here.”
In the far east, Jacumba was hot springs Once an additional outdoor camps siteWhere hundreds of immigrants sleep on plastic hemp fabric (or in tents, if they are lucky) and gather around the fire of the brush camps to stay warm.
Sam Shultz is approaching the Moon camp, where the immigrants were resting and dreamer after crossing the borders of the United States/Mexico near the hot city of Jacumba. “It is difficult to continue the matter if you don’t see anyone at all,” Schultz said of his efforts to continue to bring food and water to migrants in the region.
The water -filled tank for migrants, and tires to sit on the sandbags, which were used for the weight of the tents, are all that remains in the moon camp near the hot city of Jacumba.
Sam Schultz, a retired international relief worker who lived near Jacumba for a period of nine years, once a daily delivery of water, hot meals and blankets to immigrants there. When the camps emerged a few miles from his home, he felt that he had to help.
The tents that covered the camp site once disappeared off the old highway 80. Ibn Shultz recently pulled them away because they did not need.
Schultz still visits three sites several times a week to check if the water used for immigrants needs to be renewed.
“The water has not been touched,” he said.
Legal assistance and humanitarian organizations that helped migrants change their operations away from the border.
The Immigrant Defender Center, based in Los Angeles, served the migrants who were setting out there from the border by the governor of Texas; The group also provided legal assistance to those who are waiting for Tijuana for appointments with customs and border protection. After his inauguration, President Trump quickly eliminated the current dates and ended the use of the phone’s request used by the Biden administration to make its date.
The co -founder of the Center for Law and CEO, said Lindsay Tuckslovsky, the co -founder of the Law Center and Executive Director, said that since the detention of immigration agents across Los Angeles has increased, the organization began to focus on defending immigrants recently detained from deportation.
Oscar Mendoza, the right, his peers from his tent with his daughters, Melina, 15 years old, Dolores, 12, Introduction, in the Movinto Joventud 2000 shelter in Tijuana. Mendoza and his family fled Morelos, Mexico, for the borders due to all violence as his family was threatened.
AL otro Lado, the AL OTRO LADO, said that many who have been deported to Mexico are sent beyond the south, so there are not many people stuck in Tijuana. She said that the organization brought the employees to Mexico City and to Tabesola, which borders Guatemala.
Pinhahero said that the San Yisidero-based organization has recently expanded a project that supports non-spoken immigrants in Mexico-refugees who cannot now search for asylum in the United States but they cannot also return safely to their country of origin.
The American Friends Service Committee also turned its work to focus on providing “Knowing your rights” offers in schools, churches and community centers.
But again in the whiskey 8, Jasu said that the organization will continue to provide direct humanitarian aid to immigrants to move forward.
The border patrol agent rides along the United States/Mexico border wall near an area called Al -Waska 8, where immigrants used to receive water and food in San Ysidro.
I remembered learning three immigrants He died earlier this month In the Outai Mountain wilderness after inviting assistance during a storm that brought temperatures close to freezing to the harsh terrain.
While migrants are now unable to search for legal ways to enter the United States through the refugee process, defenders expect that more will begin to risk their lives by trying to enter illegally through more remote and dangerous terrain. Some miserable enough to jump over all the newly installed Constina wire.
