Stranded in Tijuana, a group of asylum seekers from Cameroon, Uganda and Ethiopia banded together in a shared hotel room. The policy, known as “metering,” restricted how many asylum seekers ports of entry would process on a given day. Officials also detain asylum seekers and then put them on planes back to the countries that they fled. But asylum seekers who are expelled to their home countries are detained — and generally tested for the coronavirus — before being put on planes, according to the human rights report. And many asylum seekers report being targeted by Mexican police themselves.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 02, 2021 21:11 UTC