For thousands of asylum seekers, all they can do is wait

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For thousands of asylum seekers, all they can do is wait

Elliot Spagat, Nomaan Merchant and Patricio Espinoza, Associated Press Updated 11:27 pm CDT, Thursday, May 9, 2019

The Associated Press visited eight cities along the U.S.-Mexico border to see the impact of asylum limits. It found that 13,000 immigrants are on waiting lists to get into the country. (May 9)


CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — For thousands of asylum seekers, there are many ways to wait — and wait, and wait — at the threshold of the United States.

Parents and children sleep in tents next to bridges leading to Texas for weeks on end, desperately hoping their names and numbers are called so they can be let in.

Some immigrants complain of shakedowns and kidnappings by gangs and corrupt officials, particularly across the border in Texas. Others have paid to jump to the front of the line; the rest, determined to enter the country legally, wait patiently, even if it takes months.

https://www.lmtonline.com/news/texas/article/US-asylum-limits-spawn-mishmash-wait-systems-in-13832378.php

[Sanguine]

No, they have other options.  They can apply for asylum where they are, and they could even go home and clean up their own backyards.

[Fishrrman]

"For thousands ..., all they can do is wait"

Build 'em a new version of Casablanca in southern Mexico.