February 17, 2021 Share
After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States.
“It seems the new president wants to help migrants,” Osorio said as he got ready to check in to a cheap hotel in downtown Tijuana before heading to the U.S. “They’re saying he is going to help, but I don’t know for sure how much is true or not.”
The 63-year-old is among thousands of people who have come to the U.S.-Mexico border with the hope they will be able to ask for asylum and make their way into the U.S. now that former President Donald Trump is no longer in office.
Biden has taken some major steps to reverse Trump s hardline immigration policies, but his administration hasn t lifted some of the most significant barriers to asylum-seekers.
The Biden administration hasn't ended a public health order former President Donald Trump issued at the start of the coronavirus pandemic that allows U.S.
US Customs and Border Protection which doesn't have capacity to hold families because of Covid-19, in recent weeks has released people into the US with instructions to appear in court later; that could become a new headache for Biden