By the time the first hearing in Yesenia's case for asylum in the United St...
MEXICO CITY - By the time the first hearing in Yesenia’s case for asylum in the United States arrived last month, she was 1,300 miles from the courthouse.
Yesenia, who asked for her full name not to be published over safety fears, applied for U.S. asylum last year but was sent back across the border to wait for her case to advance under the Trump administration’s controversial “Remain in Mexico” program, formally known as Migrant Protection Protocols. Many migrants board the buses desperate to leave Mexico’s northern border, where they risk falling prey to gangs that target and kidnap migrants. But once in Chiapas, some have been unable to reach the United States for their hearings, advocates consulted by Reuters said.
Mexico’s National Migration Institute and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment. Some made their court appearances. Others did not, said Enrique Vidal, a coordinator for the group. Like Yesenia, many say they were never informed they would be taken so far away, he added.A spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said many of the migrants it interviewed who had taken the buses to Chiapas “lacked information about their situation.”
Yesenia said she and her husband asked Mexican immigration officials repeatedly where the bus was headed but were only told it would take them away from Nuevo Laredo.
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