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Thousands of asylum seekers camp on the Mexico-US border
According to this article on The Yucatan Times, by Yucatan Times
“TIJUANA, México (AP) — Crowding and unsanitary conditions are getting worse at informal camps set up in northern Mexico by asylum seekers waiting to make asylum claims in the United States.
U.S. President Joe Biden has abandoned some of former President Donald Trump’s hardline policies, most notably one that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. Biden has also partly eased a pandemic-related ban on seeking legal asylum.
But more asylum seekers are heading to the border, and many of them still can’t cross. They have wound up at impromptu camps like the one in El Chaparral, near Tijuana, amid filth and a lack of services. The camp blocks pedestrian paths near one of the border crossings between Tijuana and San Diego.
Hundreds of families are living under plastic tarps, without bathrooms, and at the mercy of the elements and the vicious gangs that roam the area.”