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Facing Trump’s asylum limits, refugees from as far as Africa languish in a Mexican camp
A group of roughly 100 Haitians, Africans and South Americans cross the Rio Grande, just shallow enough for adults to wade despite an overnight storm.
As they wait on the muddy bank near Del Rio, Texas, to surrender themselves to the Border Patrol, the voices of children in the group carry across the river to the Mexican side.
- By Moly O’Toole and Carolyn Cole
- Los Angeles Times
There, in the city of Ciudad Acuña, hundreds of migrants have formed an impromptu refugee camp in an ecological park bound on one side by the river.
Just outside the park, the official port of entry to the United States sits at the end of a short bridge.
They’ve crossed thousands…