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    Fear, Confusion And Separation As Trump Administration Sends Migrants Back To Mexico

    The "Remain in Mexico" program is a key part of the Trump administration's plan to turn back a crush of migrants at the southern border, and it's a historic shift in how the asylum system works.
    by Joel Rose Jul 01, 2019 6 minutes
    Genero, a migrant from Guatemala, walks through the pedestrian entrance at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on his way to immigration court in El Paso, Texas.

    Several dozen Central American migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border again, this time escorted by federal agents to an El Paso, Texas, courtroom, as part of an unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to control migration.

    One by one, the judge asked if the migrants had a lawyer during a hearing last week. Nearly all of them said, "No."

    That's not unusual. More than 6,000 migrants who came to the United States to ask for asylum have been sent back to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, to wait for their day in U.S. immigration court under the "Remain in Mexico" program. But only about 20 of them have lawyers, according to human rights groups and attorneys who work with the migrants.

    Remain in Mexico is a key part of the Trump administration's plan to turn back a crush of migrants at the southern border, and it's a historic shift in how the asylum system works.

    The administration says the program will help

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