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US Supreme Court decision preventing thousands of migrants from claiming asylum at the border threatens families as safety and health deteriorate for a suddenly immobile population, say immigration lawyers and activists.
The travellers, many with small children, are now rushing to find housing, food and medical care as they’re stuck in dangerous Mexican border cities for far longer than they or their hosts expected.
The latest blow to people fleeing violence and political unrest arrives amid President Donald Trump’s push to drive down border crossings. Those numbers have already plunged after he persuaded Mexico under threat of tariffs to send more than 25,000 national guard troops to its borders and to receive tens of thousands of asylum seekers awaiting court hearings in the US.
“This stay is a death sentence for asylum seekers at our southern border, and a disturbing endorsement of administration’s efforts to unilaterally rewrite asylum laws,†wrote Karlyn Kurichety, a lawyer for Al Otro Lado, a legal-aid organisation operating in Tijuana, where the group says more than 10,000 are seeking asylum.