Sleeping on the ground and in tents, just steps from the border town of San Isidro, about 150 Central American refugees—almost half of them women and children—await their turn to request political asylum in the United States. Although the Trump administration threatened to detain and deport migrants crossing the border, two dozen have managed to process their application with support from lawyers and human rights advocates from both sides of the border. Our reporter Jessica Bedolla has this story from the refugee camp in Tijuana.
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