Migrants face freezing Christmas at US-Mexico border

Migrants, mostly from Venezuela, rest during a night of low temperatures in downtown El Paso, Texas [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]

Hundreds of migrants are camping in the cold at Mexico’s northern border over Christmas, hoping for a swift reversal in restrictions imposed by the United States as they endure the bite of a winter storm ravaging the region.

After the US Supreme Court this week ruled that restrictions known as Title 42 could stay in place temporarily, many migrants are facing a Christmas weekend in what Mexico’s weather service called a “mass of Arctic air.”