'Praying that Biden wins': Asylum seekers hold their breath as U.S. votes


  • World
  • Wednesday, 04 Nov 2020

A Cuban migrant, under the "Remain in Mexico" program, works at a market while awaiting for his immigration hearing in the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico November 3, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - In a makeshift refugee camp just across the border from Brownsville, Texas, Oscar Borjas and a few friends are planning to gather on Tuesday night to watch anxiously as results from the U.S. presidential election roll in.

Borjas, a Honduran asylum seeker who has spent the last year living in a cold and unsanitary encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, is not a U.S. voter.

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