Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico for their claims to be processed
By Globaltimes.cn, Published: 2019-07-16 17:03:15
A Central American migrant looks on from behind a fence of the Madre Assunta Institute, a shelter for migrant women and children in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on July 13, 2019. Photo: Eduardo Jaramillo Castro/VCG
Editor's Note:
Asylum seekers in the US are overflowing shelters in Mexico waiting for their claims to be processed. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency officers began a small-scale operation to expel illegal immigrants on July 14, 2019. The move left many illegal immigrants in a state of panic and even those who were not in the scope of the search were worried about being implicated, China News Service reported. Photos: VCG
Tents are piled up in a hangar at Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on July 13, 2019. Photo: Eduardo Jaramillo Castro/VCG 
A migrant with her daughter, who returned to Mexico from the United States for their court hearing for asylum, as part of the legal proceedings under a new policy established by the US government, rest outside the Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on July 14, 2019. Photo: Jose Luis Gonzalez/VCG 
An agent of the National Migration Institute and a member of Mexico's National Guard check the IDs of people who have crossed the Suchiate River on a raft from Tecun Uman, Guatemala, to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico on July 15, 2019. Photo: Jose Torres/VCG