FILE PHOTO: A migrant child touches her face inside a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico April 6, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
TIJUANA, Mexico/SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - On Tuesday, seven Central American families living temporarily in Mexico appeared in a San Diego immigration court to plead for asylum in the United States.
Mindful of a federal court ruling the day before that halted the Trump administration's policy of making asylum seekers wait in Mexico, the judge repeatedly asked the U.S. government lawyer what would happen to these families now.
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