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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Migrants hopeful, suspicious at US reopening to asylum

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

More than a dozen migrants excitedly ran out of their dormitory at the Good Samaritan shelter here at the mere mention that the Biden administration may lift a rule that expels people at the border before they can request a chance at humanitarian protection in the United States.

They quizzed a reporter they'd overheard speak of the expected change in a rule that for the past two years has forced asylum seekers to wait at shelters in in Mexican border cities terrorized by organized crime.

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