The new family separation: Migrant parents stranded on border send kids across alone
More than 100 have showed up at the border alone after being sent back under the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico program
By Molly Hennessy-FiskeHouston Bureau Chief
Nov. 27, 2019
2:58 PM
MATAMOROS, Mexico —
When 10-year-old Honduran asylum seeker Jose Lopez approached U.S. customs officers on the border bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville this month, they allowed him to enter Texas as an unaccompanied minor.
In fact, Jose had arrived at the border with his father Aug. 18 and requested asylum, but both of them had been sent back across the border under the Trump administration program known as Remain in Mexico. On Nov. 1, a U.S. immigration judge at a tent court near the bridge ordered them deported, his father, Delmer Lopez, said last week.
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