How a reboot of Trump’s Remain in Mexico plan isn’t the solution migrants are hoping for
by Dylan Baddour in Reynosa, Mexico from US news | The Guardian on (#5T6X2)
Advocates are critical of the immigration policy's reinstatement, while asylum seekers see the plan as better than nothing from the US
Every day feels like a bad dream to Timoty Correas. He spent five months in a jam-packed tent camp before moving weeks ago to a roach-infested hotel full of migrant families in a neighborhood, blocks from the US border where, he said, during the night local crime cartels would load crowds of smuggled people in and out of houses used as hiding places.
Like thousands of other people here, Correas and his eight-year-old son are stranded at the US border, always hoping that hardline pandemic-related restrictions will cease and the processing of asylum seekers by the US will resume.
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