Biden retains Trump's border rules for now, with migrants stuck in Mexico or facing expulsion

[DonViejo]

BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ

FEBRUARY 1, 2021 / 8:08 AM / CBS NEWS

Perla, 46, a Nicaraguan political dissident, has been living with her daughter and grandchildren in a squalid migrant tent camp in the Mexican border city of Matamoros for a year and half.

A former local councilwoman who was threatened for publicly opposing Daniel Ortega's regime, Perla is waiting for a U.S. immigration judge to adjudicate her asylum request, with her final court hearing postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"It's been really difficult. You don't know what can happen to you here," she told CBS News in Spanish. "We try to make the most of it, but we have to deal with the rain, the sun and the bathrooms that are not clean."

Perla said the encampment is not a place for children like her granddaughters, who are 10 and 7 years old. "Not a day goes by without me crying, without me saying, 'I want to leave,'" she said.

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[Celerity]

1. I will give Biden the benefit of a doubt on this. I am sure there is a good reason. nt

[secondwind]

2. Heartbreaking......

Trump left Biden a cesspool of problems, he can only do so much... I'm sure Biden will handle this, not ignore it.

[Wounded Bear]

3. It's not something that can be fixed overnight...

It's a sad story, but that's on the prior administration. It's gonna take some time to gather the resources together to implement a humane solution to this disaster.

[Turin_C3PO]

4. Biden's having to put

out so many fires started by the previous administration’s arsonists that it’s going to take a while to address every problem.

[Thekaspervote]

5. Texas trump appointed federal judge put a halt to Biden's EO on immigration