A Cuban helps a Central American girl cross the Rio Grande and reach the United States

Images of migrants crossing the Rio Grande In recent months they have multiplied due to the growing number of foreigners waiting in northern Mexico for their turn to request political asylum at the United States border.

Álvaro, a Cuban who was waiting for his turn in Ciudad Juárez, starred this week in one of these dangerous crossings that have border authorities extremely worried.

The Cuban migrant arrived at the bank of the river that divides the United States from Mexico with another countryman just out of curiosity. Once there, he saw that a Central American woman was going into the water with a girl in her arms and he jumped in to help her, he reported. The newspaper.

In this way, he arrived at the American end with the approximately 8-year-old girl carried and handed himself over to the border patrol of this country.

“This morning he woke up with that idea, of jumping into the river… he became desperate, he was missing more than 2 thousand numbers,” said the friend who had arrived with him to the vicinity of the river.

This other Cuban returned with the rest of his compatriots in the northern city of Mexico to continue waiting for his turn, under the list coordinated by the State Council for Population and Attention to Migrants (COESPO).

The current of the international river has been particularly violent in recent days, after the opening of the floodgates of water coming from the Elephant Dam (United States), by the American authorities.

From October of last year until a week ago, around 16,700 migrants have been registered in Ciudad Juárez to apply for political asylum in the United States.

The Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has not stopped deporting Cuban migrants in its territory since the first mass deportation of this year that took place in March. This Friday, Mexico returned more than 70 Cubans to Havana.

Faced with constant deportations, Cuban immigrants fear returning to their country and look for any alternative, however dangerous it may be, to take them to the United States promptly.