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Border Dispatch: Tijuana's Asylum Line Grows To More Than 9,000 | Kate Morrissey

Episode Summary

The wait list for migrants in Tijuana to request asylum in the United States has grown to the longest it has ever been, even longer than the line that grew right after a large caravan arrived in November. About 9,150 names are pending on the list, according to data documented by volunteers with Al Otro Lado, a legal services nonprofit that supports migrants in Tijuana. The people to whom those names belong have been waiting upwards of three months in many cases for their turn to ask the U.S. for protection at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2019-07-09/tijuana-asylum-notebook-reaches-highest-count-on-record-migrants-in-line-protest-long-waits

Episode Notes

The wait list for migrants in Tijuana to request asylum in the United States has grown to the longest it has ever been, even longer than the line that grew right after a large caravan arrived in November.
About 9,150 names are pending on the list, according to data documented by volunteers with Al Otro Lado, a legal services nonprofit that supports migrants in Tijuana. The people to whom those names belong have been waiting upwards of three months in many cases for their turn to ask the U.S. for protection at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
Story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2019-07-09/tijuana-asylum-notebook-reaches-highest-count-on-record-migrants-in-line-protest-long-waits