Thousands of asylum seekers left waiting at the US-Mexico border
- Written by Savitri Arvey, Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego
The U.S.-Mexico border, between San Diego and Calexico, California.Savitri Arvey, CC BY-SA
Over the past three months, the number of Central Americans arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has jumped exponentially, and total border crossings have reached levels last seen in 2006.
Yet, while the number of families arriving between official border...
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