Officials stationed U.S. customs officers at the midpoints of border bridges, forcing migrants to wait to apply for asylum. Marili, a Honduran asylum seeker, sent her children, ages 5 and 3, to cross into the U.S. alone. She has been waiting at a camp in Matamoros, Mexico, since August for a U.S. judge to hear her family’s asylum case. At least 50 children from the Matamoros camp have presented themselves on the bridge as unaccompanied minors, migrant advocates estimated. Deportees from the U.S. walk past an encampment where asylum seekers live in Matamoros, Mexico.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 27, 2019 23:37 UTC