Asylum seekers are finding themselves stuck in squalid camps in Mexico as they try to use a new Customs and Border Patrol app to enter the United States.
. Instead, many can now apply from their home country and show up the date of their appointment.
Two weeks after being sent back to the Sidewalk School, Carlos said her once hopeful student still doesn’t have a new appointment. The child’s name is being withheld by The Washington Post out of concerns for his safety.A perilous hunt for WiFi WiFi service in northern Mexico is spotty at best and at worst, nonexistent. The signal may be strong enough to log on but the low bandwidth falters the deeper into the app one goes. Migrants say the signal drops completely when taking a photo or uploading information.Twenty-year-old Oliver of Honduras is hoping to reunite with his mother across the U.S. border. But when he got to Reynosa, he was kidnapped. His mother paid several thousand dollars in ransom to the cartels to secure his release.
Nearby, a collection of tall glass candles bearing the image of La Santa Muerte, a grim-reaper like Mexican folk saint worshiped by narcos, have been placed in a circle drawn into the sand. Haitians are frequently targeted by petty thieves and heavily armed drug dealers. Volunteer doctors with nonprofit Global Response Medicine have treated strange rashes, severe respiratory infections and at least one case of cholera“The reason these camps exist is because they are waiting to legally cross,” said Felicia Rangel-Samponaro, founder of Sidewalk School, which has two locations.
But the vibrant scene belies the perils Alcazar faces. The transphobia and discrimination that propelled her flight from Venezuela are more virulent in Mexico, the second most dangerous place in the world to be transgender after Brazil.At the Matamoros school, more teary-eyed children arrive each day.
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