Asylum seekers dropped off in towns that have few resources get help from nonprofits
Taylor OâConnor/Cronkite Borderlands Project
By: Taylor OâConnor - Cronkite Borderlands Project
Posted at 5:07 PM, May 04, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-04 20:09:17-04
SOMERTON â After two years of waiting in Mexico and four days of detention in the U.S., Indira Diaz Cortina, 22, an asylum seeker from Cuba, found herself in a parking lot last month, waiting for COVID-19 test results.
She and 37 others were dropped off by Customs and Border Protection agents at a makeshift testing clinic. She had no change of clothes, no shoelaces, no money and no way to contact family members or friends with whom she hopes to reunite.