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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Valerie Gonzalez in Reynosa, Mexico, and McAllen, Texas

Migrants still being blocked by ‘really dangerous’ Trump-era Covid policy

A Haitian migrant boy at a shelter in Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, Mexico.
A Haitian migrant boy at a shelter in Reynosa, Tamaulipas state, Mexico. Photograph: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images

Feet away from a landfill and the largest migrant shelter in Reynosa, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, sits a woeful campsite thatched from blankets, tarps and tree trunks.

Inside, a family of four wait in the heat and danger of the border city, right across the river from Texas, for their chance to enter the US legally and claim asylum under international law.

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