Commentary: Blocked from entering the US, will asylum-seekers find a welcome mat in Mexico?
Every harsh move the Trump administration makes on the southwestern border is designed to deter Central Americans from traveling to the United States. It blocks them at legal ports of entry, holds others in indefinite detention and has drastically restricted who can even ask for asylum. But there is no evidence that the flow of migrants is slowing in response, nor are these people going home.
Turned-back migrants are piling up in privately operated shelters
