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2023-09-28 Caribbean-Latin America
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Video shows migrant mom and baby crying as they cross under razor wire into El Paso just to be sent back the same way: Costa Rica declares a state of emergency amid huge influx of migrants at the US southern border
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The video - taken in Juarez on the Mexico side of the border - sees the group of Venezuelans placing cardboard on their backs to avoid being cut
- After multiple close calls during which the toddler can be heard crying, the family made it to the other side - only to be sent back by Texas National Guard border agents
- At Mexican's southern border shared with Guatemala footage shows just how far-flung the effects of migrants' efforts to enter the US is
Footage shows the migrants then going back through the perilous route from which they came - only to then head to another area of the nearly 2,000 mile long boundary to attempt another entry elsewhere.
They are part of a continuing surge of arrivals impacting towns and cities in both Mexico and the US, as well others further south like Costa Rica, whose president on Tuesday ordered a state of emergency, citing a surge of migrants crossing through the country toward the United States.
'The people that arrive are passing across Costa Rica trying to get to the United States, basically,' President Rodrigo Chaves told a press conference Tuesday.
Such obstacles have proved fruitless in recent years as the migrant crisis has continued to worsen with the rescinding of Donald Trump's Title 42 in May - a move that has made it easier for migrants to seek asylum and circumvent border laws.
The country's system of freight trains - long used as an alternative to other options like the Rio Grande - have also fueled rising numbers, spurring Mexico's railroad Ferromex last week to announce it would be halting 60 of its trains for the foreseeable future.
The rationale behind the decision, the firm said, was that so many migrants were hitching rides on the trains that it became unsafe - citing at least a 'half dozen regrettable cases of injuries or deaths' in a span of just a few days.
Just days after that warning was issued - after mayors of both Eagle Pass and El Paso claimed their cities have reached capacity - the Mexican government announced a new agreement with the US to deport migrants from cities like Juárez, Chihuahuato, and Piedras Negras their home countries.
The deal will also take several actions to deter migrants from traveling by rails, as part of a new effort to combat the recent surge in border crossings.
Despite violence from drug cartels and the dangers that come with riding atop the train cars, such freight trains still remain popular.
The closures temporarily cut off one of the most transited migratory routes in the country at a time of surging migration.
It also further underscores the historic numbers of people heading north in search of a new life in the US, and the dilemma it poses for nations in Central and South America - as they also struggle to cope with the amounts of migrants traversing their territories.
Stateside, matters are even worse after more than three years of thousands of illegal entries a day - leaving states like Texas, and more recently New York, at a loss.
The Biden Administration, even after its rescinding of Title 42, has failed to address the crisis, and is actually turning a lower percentage of border-crossing migrants back into Mexico than his predecessor, statistics show.
According to federal data an average of 1,000 people have been sent back across the border each month since Title 42 ended, compared with nearly 3,000 the month before.
In August, the U.S. Border Patrol made 181,509 arrests at the Mexican border, up 37 percent from July but little changed from August 2022 and well below the high of more than 220,000 in December, according to figures released Friday.
It reversed a plunge in the numbers after new asylum restrictions were introduced in May. That comes after years of steadily rising migration levels produced by economic crisis and political and social turmoil in many of the countries people are fleeing.
Once, just dozens of migrants from Central American countries would pass through Irapuato by train each day, said Marta Ponce, a 73-year-old from who has spent more than a decade providing aid to those who travel the tracks running through her town.
Now, that number often reaches the thousands. 
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