While most migrants are now waiting weeks for processing at the United States border, which officials say has limited capacity, Ms. Joseph said the attention had made it impossible for Ms. Meza to continue waiting. It was nearly 10 p.m. when border officials came out with white plastic handcuffs and called for the Meza family to enter, lawyers said. Like many other migrants traveling from Central America, Ms. Meza is citing gang violence in Honduras as a basis for her asylum claim. Another policy still being considered would require asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind their way through the legal system. But there is a long backlog of asylum seekers at the Mexican border — roughly 8,800 migrants are in Tijuana now, including 2,800 who have been there for months, officials estimate. Around 8 a.m. Tuesday, the rest of the group was admitted for processing.
We talk of how horrible Hitler treated the Jews in concentration camps. However, we are treating these immigrants the same way. They fled their country to find new opportunitiy in America and this is how they are greeted. It is sad to say that this is our reality and that thewelcoming nature of our free country is nonexistent.
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