NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico In the large, open patio of the El Buen Samaritano shelter in this border city, migrants sat in plastic picnic chairs and formed a large semi-circle around Pastor Lorenzo Ortiz as he fielded questions about the latest changes in U.S. immigration policies.
Some of the migrants balanced babies on their knees, others coddled toddlers. A crumbling two-story concrete building stood nearby, where the migrants eat rice and refried beans with tortillas and sleep on cots or mattresses on the floor.
No, Ortiz told them, they haven’t opened the international bridge to asylum-seekers. Yes, the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP the controversial Trump administration-era policy that forced migrants to wait in Mexico until their hearing dates had been paused. But Ortiz didn’t know how U.S. officials planned to process them.
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