![]() ![]() ![]() William Hill and Philip Weems, were seized in the middle of the night by this force. Beanes' posse successfully captured the soldiers and threw them into jail, but one escaped and returned with a larger group. When British troops began raiding American farms in the summer of 1814, Beanes assembled a local militia to retaliate. Snow reported from Phoenix.Beanes was a widely respected landowner and physician in Maryland. “We ask that God helps us,” Aguilar said.Īssociated Press journalists Gerardo Carrillo in Matamoros, Mexico María Verza in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Giovanna Dell’Orto in El Paso, Texas and Julie Watson and Suman Naishadham in Tijuana, Mexico, contributed to this report. The owner of a welding shop, Aguilera said he left his home once before in 2020 because of threats, but returned when things calmed down. For a payment, they will kill you,” Aguilera said with tears in his eyes. From Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Aguilera said he and his family fled after organized criminals started demanding he pay twice the extortion money he was already paying of 2,000 Honduran lempira (roughly $81) a week. with his three kids and wife to try to cross and ask for asylum. Gerson Aguilera, 41, got to Tijuana around 4 p.m. On a stretch of border wall in Tijuana, migrants asked passersby for blankets, food and water as the sun set over a steep hill. “It’s because of them” she and her husband decided to take the risk, Ybarra said. The couple left their three children behind. On Friday, they were waiting at the Sacred Heart shelter in El Paso hoping to raise the money necessary to get to North Carolina, where she has two brothers and a court date in two months. She was detained for three days and her husband for nine. Venezuelan Dayana Ybarra and her husband crossed two weeks ago through a gap in the wall near El Paso because they feared it would be much harder after Title 42 expired. “We are at a situation we’ve never been at before.” “The question keeps coming up: ‘What now?’ I’ve been asking that question for two years, with no answers,” Nicholls said. Nicholls said officials told him they would release 141 people in Yuma County on Friday. Most migrants are transported to shelters operated by nonprofit organizations farther away from the border, but border officials will release them into communities if enough transportation isn’t available. Mayor Doug Nicholls asked for the federal government to declare a national disaster so Federal Emergency Management Agency resources and National Guard troops could be rushed to his and other small border communities. They crossed the border Wednesday before the rules changed.Īuthorities in the remote desert community of Yuma, Arizona, expressed alarm after the average daily number of migrant arrivals grew this week from 300 to 1,000. Gloria Inigo of Peru said she hoped she, her husband and their daughters, ages 5 and 8, would be next. One woman yelled “Suerte!” or “Good luck!” as those chosen were loaded into a Border Patrol van. When some were selected, those left behind cheered. The hundreds of migrants, mostly families, sat in two dozen rows between the border walls while Border Patrol agents walked by and decided who would be processed. She feared deportation but wanted to stay optimistic. “We never expected all this,” said Rodas, who fled her homeland after her life was threatened. agents took away between 15 and 20 families with children under age 2 who had been among the hundreds sleeping under plastic tarps and blankets. The girls cried all night.Īt about 2 a.m. “I have my children’s birth certificates.”īueno set up camp for the night next to a bridge with about a dozen other men after they charged their cellphones from a connection in the street.ĭiana Rodas, an elementary school teacher from Colombia, spent the night shivering with her two daughters, ages 7 and 13, sleeping on the ground between two towering border walls dividing San Diego and Tijuana. “They didn’t have to split my family,” Bueno insisted. ![]()
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