A day after Angie Pina was expelled from the US for Mexico President Biden’s new rule for Venezuelan asylum seekersThe Post saw that she was illegally returned to the US again on Saturday.
Pina claims he first stepped onto US soil on Wednesday morning, before President Biden announced that Mexico had agreed to take on asylum-seekers Venezuelans who were rejected by the US.
Hoping to discourage illegal crossings at the border, the Biden administration announced that they would provide humanitarian entry to 24,000 Venezuelans if they apply online and arrive by air – rather than crossing the land border as hundreds of thousands do. are, with El Paso alone recorded 2,100 migrants in one day,
Pina was held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso for a day and a half before she learned she and dozens of other Venezuelan women would be in the same holding cell Sent back to Mexico.
“It was a crisis – we were all screaming and sobbing,” she said.
“A woman led us all in prayer, but that’s when the reality came out. They never told us why we were being sent back, but some Venezuelan men who passed behind us stopped. “
On Friday, Pina was taken to one of El Paso’s international bridges and released to Mexico, where a new world of uncertainty awaited.
“I am gay; I have a month to get here and I am afraid,” said the 33-year-old. “I have gone through a lot to get here. I am poor I try to keep my head up, but I feel like I’m losing the strength to move on. I feel like I can even step in front of the car.”
Pina and other expelled Venezuelans stood outside a Mexican immigration center where they receive basic services – such as a place to shower and charge their phones. On Saturday morning, she told The Post that she was considering trying to cross the border again.
“I would like to try again because I can’t go back to Venezuela,” she explained, adding that she is an engineer in her homeland.
“I don’t have money to go back. I left because I had a three-year-old daughter whom I was unable to raise because I was constantly discriminated against because of my sexual orientation. ,
Other Venezuelans agreed that they, too, would try to return to the US, even if it meant turning to dangerous people-smuggling cartels.
“If they don’t let us back in, we will go back, legally or illegally,” said another immigrant.
“No one is going to go back. Thousands of Venezuelans are on the way right now. They’re not going back.”
“I asked the Mexicans to deport me to Venezuela and they told me they couldn’t, so what should we do?” asked Pina.
Expelled Venezuelans who gathered in Juarez, Mexico, said they were left impoverished during their travels and could not pay to return to their country of origin.
By noon, Pina, her partner and another Venezuelan woman decided to try their luck again and drove from the Rio Grande to El Paso, where they again surrendered themselves to a Border Patrol agent.
She was then taken to another holding cell, where she would find out her fate – the one most likely to be exiled again.