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Some migrants huddled in tents provided by local volunteers. Others slept on the desert floor, facing fire pits burning rubbish. The camp, which in 2023 sprang up outside Jacumba Hot Springs, a town in San Diego County, California, was encircled by mountains, highways and the border wall. When Border Patrol agents came to take people for processing, they had to resort to nonverbal communication. “Sit if you have a passport.” “Step forward if you are travelling with children.” If the migrants were from Mexico and Central America, as most used to be, Spanish would suffice. Yet among those who had just walked across from Mexico were people from China, India and Turkey.
At a break in the border wall – one of many large gaps in southeast San Diego County – the group files into a line, pushing past branches and razor wire to step into the United States. For many, those steps mark the transition into a new life.
This scene has played out countless times over the past few months, as this remote stretch of the border has become an unofficial gateway for migrants desperate to enter the U.S.
The migrants find their way to gaps in the wall from Mexico then cross into the U.S. and look for Border Patrol who will eventually document, process and release the migrants into the country with an immigration court date often years into the future.
But before that happens, Border Patrol agents tell the migrants to wait hours – sometimes days – at makeshift holding areas in the open high desert with little food, water or shelter from the elements. The agency has said capacity and personnel restraints at their facilities cause the delays in processing.
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