He said he wanted to enter the United States while the restrictions were still in effect, because he heard it would be more difficult after Thursday.Īgents in the U.S. He fled Colombia because frequent robbery and extortion made it difficult to live. About 100 people - mostly from Colombia - came across the border before dawn Tuesday and walked nearly two hours through remote, boulder-strewn mountains east of San Diego to a sandy plateau where Border Patrol agents watched over them.Īndres Barra, 39, left Colombia on Friday, flew to Tijuana, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $300 to guide him to a mountain peak near the agents, to whom they surrendered. Mexico shares a 1,951-mile border with the United States, so the nation is key to the success of any plans by the United States to control immigration at the southern border. Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke for roughly an hour Tuesday to discuss the border.
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