Overview

• About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Texas this week.
• The camp houses about 2,000 people, mostly from Venezuela, Haiti, and Mexico.
• Criminal groups often prey upon migrants in the area and demand money in return for permission to pass through their territory.
• The fires were allegedly set by a group of migrants frustrated with a U.S. government mobile app that assigns turns for people to show up at the border and claim asylum.
• The U.S. government is increasingly turning to Mexico while preparing to end pandemic-era asylum restrictions on May 11.