MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) – For a couple of valuable hours, Luz thought she would quickly see her children once again.
FILE PHOTO: Migrant women, asylum seekers sent back to Mexico from the U.S. under the “Remain in Mexico” program formally called Migrant Defense Protocols (MPP), are seen playing at a provisional campground near the Rio Bravo in Matamoros, Mexico February 27,2020 REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
The 42- year-old Peruvian is one of about 2,000 migrants, mainly seeking asylum in the United States, who are residing in a sea of tents on the banks of the Rio Grande in Mexico, within view of the frontier fence.
On Friday afternoon, a U.S. court obstructed the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that has forced them to wait south of the border as their cases continue.
The policy is main to President Donald Trump’s quest to lower the number of individuals given entry to the United States. If the judgment is upheld, it would be a blow to Trump, a Republican politician, as he runs for a second term in workplace, with hardline migration policy central to his project.
As word of the court’s ruling raced through the camp in the Mexican border town of Matamoros, few were more e