In Juárez, 'Remain In Mexico' Policy Casts Asylum-Seekers Back Into Uncertainty
NPRIn Juárez, 'Remain In Mexico' Policy Casts Asylum-Seekers Back Into Uncertainty Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR For thousands of migrants, their journey to the United States has been derailed in northern Mexico border cities under a U.S. program called Migrant Protection Protocols. Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR Since April, the U.S. government has sent more than 8,000 migrants from El Paso to Juárez to wait as their cases are decided by U.S. immigration courts. Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR The migrants are being sent to northern Mexico cities wracked by drug violence. Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR Juárez is home to the largest number of migrants sent back from the U.S. and is struggling to care for them.