Hundreds of asylum seekers from Africa have been flooding Mexican cities that border the U.S. in a bid to get to Texas and California to try to get asylum in the U.S., and Mexico has given them a special permit to allow them to do so.
The influx of immigrants from African nations that have been illegally entering Mexico has been climbing for some weeks, with hundreds continuing to arrive, mainly in Mexicali, so they can then cross into California to pursue asylum. People say they have seen Immigration authorities in Mexico taking the immigrants from plazas and shelters to international bridges that cross into the U.S.
The immigration authorities in Mexico have been largely keeping silent about the influx of immigrants from Africa into their nation via their southern border and then heading over to the border with the U.S. in an attempt to gain asylum. Some of the cities they are primarily interested in are Calexico, California; El Paso, Texas; and San Ysidro, California. Mexican newspaper El Universal claims the African immigrants have been coming into the country and then handing themselves over to National Immigration Institute (INM) agents almost immediately.
INM then gives the immigrants a special pass that allows them to move freely around the country for 20 days, facilitating them to reach the U.S. border and leave the country of their own accord. In just one week in late August, 424 African immigrants gave themselves up to INM agents in Tapachula, Chiapas.