CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The first time Mari Marin Bastidas tried to claim asylum at the U.S. border, she was turned away by authorities who said a policy instituted to slow the spread of COVID-19 meant her case would not even get a hearing.
Dejected, she returned to her home in the state of Michoacán in western Mexico.
Two years later, she is back at the border to try again. Word has been spreading that the policy — known as Title 42 — is about to be lifted.
