REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: Most U.S. border towns, from Texas to California, thrive on a healthy relationship with their Mexican counterparts. But in the last decade, those relationships have been strained and tensions have grown.
ABC News' Mireya Villarreal speaks with children at the Matamoros camp.Most U.S. border towns, from Texas to California, thrive on a healthy relationship with their Mexican counterparts. Goods and labor flow back and forth, helping tourism and the economy on both sides. But in the last decade, those relationships have been strained and tensions have grown.
As the end of Title 42 creeps closer, a new camp has flourished in Matamoros. Over the last six months thousands have flocked to the Mexican border town, staging near the Rio Grande River and preparing to cross when the time is right. We traveled over the International Bridge into Matamorros, Mexico, with Pastor Abraham Barberi, a local minister associated with One Mission Ministries.
A mother and her young daughter from Venezuela have been in the Matamoros camp for five months. They are waiting for an appointment to request asylum.We soon found out that level of desperation and anxiety has seeped into every corner of the camp that holds thousands of migrants in Matamorros. Families are sleeping in make-shift tents made of old blankets and broken tree limbs. They are cooking over open fire pits, with portable toilets and piles of trash feet away. It's primitive.
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