SAN DIEGO — When a 33-year-old man from Afghanistan who had worked for the U.S. Army as a translator crossed onto U.S. soil from Tijuana, he thought he'd finally made it to a place where he would be safe.
Instead, Obaidullah found himself trapped with more than 100 other asylum-seekers in what has become an open-air holding cell between the two layers of border wall. He said Border Patrol agents required them to wait there in custody with no shelter, no food and minimal water, the latest in what has become a pattern for the San Diego sector.
"There are no rights for humans now," he said from in between the walls Wednesday morning. "They treat us like dogs, like animals."
