Mexico sends asylum-seekers south — with no easy way to return for US court dates
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico - The exhausted passengers emerge from a sleek convoy of silver and red-streaked buses, looking confused and disoriented as they are deposited ignominiously in this tropical backwater in southernmost Mexico.
There is no greeter here to provide guidance on their pending immigration cases in the United States or on where to seek shelter in a teeming international frontier town packed with marooned, U.S.-bound migrants from across the globe.
The bus riders had made a long and perilous overland trek north to the Rio Grande only to be dispatched back south to Mexico's border with Central America - close to where many of them had begun their perilous journeys weeks and months earlier. At this point, some said, both their resources and sense of hope had been drained.
"We don't know what we're going to do next," said Maria de Los Angeles Flores Reyes, 39, a Honduran accompanied by her daughter, Cataren, 9, who appeared petrified after disembarking from one of the long-distance buses. "There's no information, nothing."
The two are among more than 50,000 migrants, mostly Central Americans, whom U.S.
