Advocates are critical of the immigration policy’s reinstatement, while asylum seekers see the plan as better than nothing from the US
many asylum claims, those fleeing violence who hoped for political asylum were granted refuge in the US and allowed to join relatives in the country, who act as their sponsors, while their cases were heard.upon taking office but continued Title 42, summarily expelling migrants without a chance to make their case.
Dubon, a nurse from Guatemala City who has lived in this camp for almost six months, said newcomers are easy to recognize because US authorities remove their shoelaces before expelling them and because they are covered in dust. “Their guides who brought them come back and pick them up,” she said, referring to human smugglers. “I don’t know where they go.”
Some of those children’s parents in Reynosa told the Guardian they’ll wait as long as they must to reunite. On 31 October, Betancourt and her husband took the kids out for ice-cream, hugged them close all night then paid smugglers $500 per child the next morning to sneak them into the US, where they expected to be apprehended, and would give authorities the contact information for their aunt in Houston.
Yet the parents who stay behind at the border face a slim chance of achieving legal entry into the US.The camps at the border – and the surrounding shelters – are often overcrowded with people seeking asylum.Although Biden’s reboot lists new protections for enrolled migrants, it still isn’t clear exactly how the program will operate, said Alex Norman, a former paralegal who helps process emergency immigration parole cases at the camp in Reynosa.
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