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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lorena Figueroa in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and Amanda Ulrich in San Diego and Tijuana

Asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border worry about their next move: ‘We cannot return’

Five people, two of them children, sit in the dirt next to a tall fence made of vertical metal bars
People huddle in what little shade there is next to the border wall in Jacumba, California. Joe Biden has signed an executive order tightening restrictions on those seeking asylum into the US. Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA

Angel Ramos Girón was searching for a gap to breach the coils of concertina wire standing between him and the huge US fence near gate 36.

The port of entry divides the US from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, where he stood on Tuesday afternoon looking towards El Paso, its American sister city in Texas.

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