Exclusive: Asylum seekers returned to Mexico rarely win bids to wait in U.S

Central American migrants, who are waiting for their court hearing for asylum seekers that returned to Mexico to await their legal proceedings under a new policy established by the U.S. government, are seen at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 10, 2019.. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

(Reuters) - Over two hours on June 1, a Honduran teenager named Tania pleaded with a U.S. official not to be returned to Mexico.

Immigration authorities had allowed her mother and younger sisters into the United States two months earlier to pursue claims for asylum in U.S. immigration court. But they sent Tania back to Tijuana on her own, with no money and no place to stay.