‘A storm is coming’: migrants stuck on US-Mexico border as temperatures plummet

Trump's pandemic-era immigration restrictions lock migrants on both sides of the border in perilous situations

Christmas was not uppermost in their minds. Bitter cold, uncertainty and urgency were.

Just after 1am at an intersection in downtown El Paso on Thursday, Arturo folded a backpack to make a pillow on the street. The 22-year-old Venezuelan wore a sweater underneath an oversized hoodie wrapped around his face as the temperature slid to the low-20s Fahrenheit, well below freezing.