As a controversial Covid-era immigration policy undergoes review, many asylees languish in limbo in Mexico
ntil 2015, the small Mexican town of Sonoyta, Sonora, scarcely figured in the migration landscape of theIn March 2020, when former US president Donald Trump implemented the, citing the pandemic as reasoning for shutting down ports of entry to asylum requests at the border, more families began to arrive in the small agricultural town of 17,000 with nowhere to go.
Since it began in 2020, Title 42 has been used more than 2.5 million times to expel asylum seekers from the US – many repeatedly. Withby the US supreme court on Monday, at the request of several Republican-led states including Arizona and Texas, the 21 December deadline to end Title 42 has once again been extended.
Even when Title 42 does finally end, Flores said, he doesn’t believe that the growing pace of migration will stop any time soon, driven by growing wealth gaps, increasing political instability in some countries and a heating planet. A week before Christmas, the center celebrated its first year with a feast of tamales and piñatas and toys for the children. Dozens of families, mostly from
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