Migrants still being blocked by ‘really dangerous’ Trump-era Covid policy

Public health experts say Title 42 is counterproductive, forcing people into unsafe and unsanitary conditions

Feet away from a landfill and the largest migrant shelter in Reynosa, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, sits a woeful campsite thatched from blankets, tarps and tree trunks.

Inside, a family of four wait in the heat and danger of the border city, right across the river from Texas, for their chance to enter the US legally and claim asylum under international law.