Migrant health care workers operating in the border cities of Juarez, Matamoros and Tijuana say conditions for migrants stalled there are a 'disaster in the making' amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"There's a lot of frustration and a lot of lack of hope," she said.
, immigrants with hearing dates before June 22 should present themselves at a port of entry one month after the date most recently given to them. And even then, they don't know what will happen next."They won't give them any paperwork. It's a ridiculous thing to explain to people," Levy said.
And public health workers who had been visiting shelters holding asylum seekers are blocked from access under the Mexican government's stay-at-home orders.Instead, the organizations now try to give medical advice through remote consultations with shelters, said Phil Canete, a co-director of Refugee Health Alliance.
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