Nearly 1,500 Gujaratis are waiting to enter US from Mexico as the pandemic-era border policy imposed by the Trump administration has come to an end recently. The Title 42, which ended recently, allowed the US to promptly deport illegal immigrants without asylum hearings, because of Covid-19.
Numerous residents of the north Gujarat region are reportedly housed in tents at the US-Mexico border with residents of other nations in an effort to enter the US illegally and seek asylum, according to sources. “A majority of the Indians wanting asylum in the US are from north Gujarat and Charotar region of central Gujarat. They are mostly from Gandhinagar and Mehsana while some of them are from Kheda,” said a Gujarat police officer .
On May 10, the day before the pandemic-related asylum limits expired, the US Border Patrol had 28,717 persons in detention, which was twice the number from the previous two weeks. Videos of Gujaratis in makeshift encampments on the Mexico border have gone viral now, and some people in these videos can be heard saying that more than 5,000 people from Gujarat are likely to queue up on the southern border of America to try their luck. One piece of footage shows people put up in thatched tents propped up by the ‘Trump wall’.