Asylum claims from Central America have been the fastest growing segment of immigration across the southern border.Central American asylum seekers
Rights groups are simultaneously suing the US government to try to close down the program, which plaintiffs says breaks the law and endangers refugees. “I have nowhere to go and no money for me or for my children. I’m afraid of being in Mexico, the crime here is like back home,” Chavez said at the Madre Asunta shelter, where she is waiting with three of her children for an immigration hearing in San Diego on 27 March.
“If it increases, there will be serious difficulties, more than anything for the shelters because the border towns are already saturated,” Guillen said. Late on Friday, the INM said in a statement that it had closed the migrant holding centres in the cities of Morelia, Acapulco, Nogales, Tuxpan and Reynosa because they could not meet the minimum conditions required for shelters.