A makeshift refugee camp in the Mexican city of Tijuana, on the US-Mexico border, marks a rapid increase in arrivals from Ukraine, with President Biden saying the United States would receive up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. Reuters reports that about 600 people are camping near the border checkpoint and about 500 are staying in nearby hotels. Ukrainians who recently arrived in Mexico are camping to try to enter the US at the port of San Ysidro at the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico REUTERS / Jorge Duenes The website also states that Ukrainian refugees arriving at the camp wait about a day to pass, from being listed on a handwritten list of volunteers – including U.S. citizens from Ukraine or speaking Russian – to crossing the border. borders in US. —President Biden (@POTUS) March 24, 2022 Enrique Lucero, Tijuana’s director of immigration affairs, told Reuters that about 40% of the refugees arriving in Tijuana are children. “I could not cry in Ukraine. Thank you even for my tears,” he said. “For this place, this food and the dream of life up [Ukraine’s] win”. Ukrainians living in a refugee camp in Tijuana, Mexico, are distracted by a child living there. REUTERS / Jorge Dunes Photos from the camp show people crammed into blankets, carrying Ukrainian flags and being surrounded by their luggage. You do not have access to running water, Reuters said. Valentina Shymanveska, a 56-year-old refugee from the besieged city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, said she was relieved to arrive in Tijuana. “I could not cry in Ukraine. Thank you even for my tears,” he said. “For this place, this food and the dream of life until victory,” he told Reuters. Ukrainians who have fled their city are waiting in a refugee camp on the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico. REUTERS / Jorge Dunes The United Nations says 10.5 million people have been displaced by the Russian invasion, including those still inside the war-torn country and those who have fled. After visiting Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said, “the needs here in Ukraine are growing and the international community must continue to stand by the Ukrainians in need.”
