Late at night, the US is expelling migrants back into dangerous Mexico border cities Dianne Solis and Alfredo Corchado
REYNOSA, Mexico Juan Felipe Rodriguez slouched with his back against the wall of the Mexican government building at the international bridge across the Rio Grande. His 7-year-old son still slumbered under a Mylar blanket on the cement next to him.
After traveling north from Guatemala, they crossed into the United States only to soon find themselves rapidly expelled back into Mexico. They arrived at this point of misery at 1 a.m., he said, in a border city he didn’t know, save for its reputation for danger.
Late at night, the U.S. is expelling migrants back into dangerous Mexico border cities
“These people are deliberately put in harm’s way,” says a Mexican shelter director.
A migrant woman brushes her hair as she and other expelled migrants sit at a plaza near the international bridge leading into the Mexican border city of Reynosa on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The U.S. continues to expel migrants under Title 42 a pandemic-related public order still in place and left over from the Trump administration.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
REYNOSA, Mexico Juan Felipe Rodriguez slouched with his back against the wall of the Mexican government building at the international bridge across the Rio Grande. His 7-year-old son still slumbered under a Mylar blanket on the cement next to him.