‘Tale of two borders’: how a US Covid-era rule shapes fate of migrants
by Nina Lakhani and agency from US news | The Guardian on (#63BGZ)
Title 42 bans all migrants from entering the country over spread of Covid - but the rule is largely enforced against Mexicans and people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
As hundreds of migrants line up along an Arizona border barrier around 4am, agents try to separate them into groups by nationality.
Anyone from Russia or Bangladesh? I need somebody else from Russia here," an agent shouts and then says quietly, almost to himself: These are Romanian."
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