'It gives us hope': migrants stranded in Mexico buoyed by prospect of Biden reform

The president-elect has promised to do away with Remain in Mexico' policy, raising hopes that asylum seekers claims will be treated seriously

Selma Lopez, 31, has spent nearly a year holed up in a two-room house not far from Mexico's border with the US, along with her 11-year-old son Darikson and another woman who also made the long journey from Honduras in search of a new life.

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