Some migrants face additional delays from immigration judges who insist they find legal counsel before their cases can move forward. A Department of Homeland Security official said it was committed to ensuring migrants have legal assistance at no cost to the government. The agency also is not forcing migrants to return to Mexico who would “more likely than not” be persecuted or tortured there, the official said. “They’ve allowed these people to return, but cut the resources for migrants, which has led to chaos. Every day a shelter calls me and says, ‘I’ve run out of food.’”But many of the waiting migrants are determined to keep hope.

Source: New York Times April 05, 2019 17:37 UTC