The Trump administration has cracked down on adult asylum seekers and families, many of them Central American in 2019. They issued an asylum ban for those from countries other than Mexico and created the Remain in Mexico program, officially dubbed Migrant Protection Protocols. The program requires almost 54,000 migrants to stay south of the border until U.S. immigration judges rule on their asylum claims, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Hundreds of migrants seeking asylum are held in a temporary transition area under the Paso Del Norte bridge in El Paso, Texas. Migrants, including young children and babies, have been held for as many as four days and have been forced to sleep outside on bare gravel with only thin Mylar blankets to protect them from the cold desert nights.
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera, of the Rio Grande Valley Sector, gets assistance from air support looking for immigrants trying to evade Border Patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border in La Joya, Texas.
Hundreds of migrants seeking asylum are held in a temporary transition area under the Paso Del Norte bridge in El Paso.
Migrants from Central America and Mexico await the outcome of their U.S. immigration court cases in a tent encampment near the Gateway International Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Migrant children play in an encampment near the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico. Asylum seekers are being turned away from Remain in Mexico hearings on the border, including at temporary immigration tent courts, for being sick.
Women from Guatemala prepare pupusas for sale at a migrant encampment in Matamoros, Mexico.
Edwin Vaquiz, 42, of Chinda, Honduras, bathes in the Rio Bravo under the Gateway International Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros, Mexico.
Crosses placed along the Rio Grande with migrant’s names who have drowned while trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico in Matamoros.
Dilia Riz Ruiz, 8, right, of Guatemala, plays under drying laundry as she along with other Central American migrants wait for their political asylum hearings at El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Silvia Lazaro, 32, fled Guerrero, Mexico, with her family of five after an armed gang tried to make her husband work for them. They are camping on the street with their children, 8, 5 and 2 years old, near the Paso del Norte international port of entry bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Dilcia Sabillon Aceituno, 40, of Naco, Honduras, with her son Anthony Leiva Sabillon, 12, cross the Paso del Norte international port of entry bridge around 4:30 a.m. in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico for their asylum hearing in El Paso. Dilcia had to flee Honduras when gangs tried to recruit her twin sons to distribute drugs.
Hundreds of migrants seeking asylum are held in a temporary transition area under the Paso Del Norte bridge in El Paso.
Merlin Avila Amador, 27, of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with children Leonel Moya Avila, 8, and Jonathan Moya Avila, 11, at the Casa Del Migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Amador has been living 28 days in the shelter awaiting her number to be called to present herself and two children to U.S. Border Patrol to seek asylum in the United States. Genoveva's husband was kidnapped and killed Nov. 2016.
U.S. Border Patrol agents, of El Centro Sector, apprehend illegal immigrants from India along the U.S.-Mexico border, in Imperial, CA.
The border wall fortified with concertina wire at Playas Tijuana along the U.S. - Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico
A young boy along with hundreds of migrants seeking asylum are held in a temporary transition area under the Paso Del Norte bridge in El Paso, Texas.
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