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Supreme Court weighs policy for migrants to wait in Mexico
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) —
When a woman gashed her
leg in mountains inhabited
by snakes and scorpions,
she told Joel Úbeda to take
her 5-year-old daughter.
Úbeda refused to let the
mother die, despite the ad-
vice of their smuggler and
another migrant in a group
of seven, and helped carry
her to safety by shining a
mirror in sunlight to flag a
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection helicopter near
San Diego.
The motorcycle mechanic,
who used his house in Nic-
aragua as collateral for a
$6,500 smuggling fee, says
the worst day of his life was
yet to come.
Arrested after the encoun-
ter with U.S. agents, Úbeda
learned two days later that
he could not pursue asylum
in the United States while liv-
ing with a cousin in Miami.
Instead, he would have to A man from Nicaragua sits at a shelter for migrants Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico.
wait in the Mexican border Associated Press
city of Tijuana for hearings
in U.S. immigration court the “Remain in Mexico” March, making little impact at a Tijuana shelter, had who enrolled about 70,000
under a Trump-era policy policy his first day in office. during a period when au- never heard of the policy, migrants after launching
that will be argued Tuesday A judge forced him to re- thorities stopped migrants officially called “Migrant it in 2019 and making it a
before the U.S. Supreme instate it in December, but about 700,000 times at the Protection Protocols.” It centerpiece of efforts to
Court. barely 3,000 migrants were border. was widely known under deter asylum-seekers.
President Joe Biden halted enrolled by the end of Úbeda, like many migrants President Donald Trump, Continued on next page