Asylum seekers marched towards the Tijuana-San Diego border in a demonstration against a border policy that has kept thousands from being able to request protection in the United States.
The demonstrators chanted “we are migrants, we are not criminals,” as they walked from a nearby migrant shelter to a pedestrian bridge near the border entry.
Thousands of migrants have waited for months in northern Mexico to enter the United States to apply for protection. Yesterday was supposed to mark the moment when the U.S. government finally dropped a pandemic-era policy that had largely prevented them from seeking asylum in the United States.
However, a Louisiana court said on Friday (May 20) that U.S. authorities were unable to immediately proceed with plans to lift restrictions that empowered U.S. agents at the Mexico-U.S. border to turn back migrants without a chance to seek asylum
