Red Cross donated water and food for almost 300 migrants on the border between the United States and Mexico

The International Red Cross intervened for the first time in the migration crisis occurring on the border between the United States and Mexico by donating food to 300 migrants.

Help came to asylum seekers who are on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and who in the last week have been attacked by the National Guard and by criminals in Mexico, who sometimes prevent them from obtaining food and water supplies.

The immigrants, who arrived by train, crossed a narrow river bank and a razor wire barricade after receiving food to join a camp of about 500 people that was formed between the river and the border wall, where they wait to be legally processed by immigration officials.

“Well, we are worried about the people who have just arrived and there is no place where they can settle and have a way to have food,” said María Teresa Moncayo, representative of the Veterans group, which is assigned to care for refugees and migrants from the Red Cross. International.

Moncayo recalled that the migrants drank water from the canal, which caused concern to the Red Cross and prompted them to provide them with water and food to alleviate hunger and thirst.

“There are too many people, we are not so prepared for all these people en masse that are arriving in Ciudad Juárez,” he added.

In this sense, migrants stranded on the country’s northern border waited for several days to achieve the “American dream,” sometimes without drinking water or without eating anything.

“We have not eaten since yesterday afternoon, we have been waiting in line for two days to try to get from that side to fulfill our dream. We haven’t eaten for almost a day, we are all dehydrated,” said Yovel González, a Venezuelan who arrived in the border city of Ciudad Juárez on Thursday.

With information from EFE

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