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In Tijuana, they build the City of God, the largest shelter in Mexico for migrants who often go to the United States. “Venezuelans are afraid to surrender to the Mexican authorities because they think they are going to be deported,” says Gustavo Banda, leader of the project and who has witnessed the passage of Latin Americans for years.
Ciudad de Dios is a hostel that is being built in Tijuana, a city on the border with the United States. There, on the grounds of a church, Pastor Gustavo Banda began sheltering Haitian migrants who began arriving in 2016.
Today, a large complex is nearing completion, which includes a school, kitchen, synthetic field, sports area and even a clinic. “From being a church, it became a small community of diverse nationalities to which we give everything we can: food, clothing, lodging, education and health care,” explains Gustavo Banda to RFI.
Some of the 1,500 migrants who currently benefit from this transit home work in construction. “We think that in two months it will be at least half finished and in March of the following year it will be completely finished and will include a clinic,” says the pastor.
There are migrants of many nationalities. “Haitians, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans and also Michoacans, people from our country who are being displaced,” adds Banda, who underlines the growing number of Venezuelans who stay in the shelter for a long time.
“Before, Venezuelans arrived and immediately went to the United States, but now with the change in regulations, they are arriving, not only at my shelter, but at the other shelters, and that is the only thing left for them: to arrive and wait for good news because they are afraid. to turn themselves in to the Mexican authorities because they think they are going to be deported,” he explains.
The White House recently announced a plan to grant humanitarian entry to up to 24,000 Venezuelans by air with the aim of deterring border crossings from Mexico. Well, those who decide to do so can be returned to the neighboring country, something that has caused many of them to be stranded in Mexico or decide to embark on a return route to Venezuela.
