When Fernando and his family arrived in Texas after a harrowing journey from El Salvador, they cried with relief. They’d left home when gang members had threatened them after a family member had disappeared, and they’d had to pack quickly. “I left behind my job as a banker where I was making a good living, our house, our vehicle, our life.” En route to the U.S. border, the family was kidnapped in Mexico and held captive in a dark, crowded, foul-smelling room for two days until their relatives managed to pay the ransom. Fernando s traumatized daughters, ages three and six, nearly drowned crossing the Rio Grande. But in March 2021, they made it to the United States. At last, Fernando believed, his family would be safe and could begin the asylum process.
The so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers expanded to another Mexican border city with the arrival of a first group of migrants to Nuevo Laredo on Tuesday. The approximately 10 migrants had crossed the border to seek U.S. asylum on Monday and will now have to wait in Mexico as their applications are processed. Lucía Ascencio of. Mexico Jul 10, 2019
The so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers expanded to another Mexican border city with the arrival of a first group of migrants to Nuevo Laredo on Tuesday. The approximately 10 migrants had crossed the border to seek U.S. asylum on Monday and will now have to wait in Mexico as their applications are processed. Lucía Ascencio of.
Fox’s purported “straight news” division claimed on Wednesday that President Joe Biden was reversing course on his actions to stop construction of former President Donald Trump’s wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. “Biden resumes wall construction after promising to halt it,” the Fox headline originally ran.
First of all, the story was not true. The actual problem being addressed was that in the course of building Trump’s border wall, engineers had to dig out existing water control systems which are now left exposed. Local officials have sounded the alarm on this complication, and so the federal government has set to restoring those levees before the seasonal floods begin again.