Migrants rattled as deportations begin at southern U.S. border
Biden’s new rule to halt asylum kicks in, raising uncertainty
By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press
Published: June 6, 2024, 5:57pm
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Volunteer Karen Parker, right, helps escort Arelis Alonzo Lopez, a pregnant woman from Guatemala who is seeking asylum, as she walks with a Border Patrol agent towards a van to be processed, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in San Diego. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Photo Gallery
DULZURA, Calif. — Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn’t too late.
“I heard that they were going to do it or were about to do it,” Castillo, 35, said Wednesday as she and her son were escorted to a Border Patrol van with about two dozen others from Brazil, Ecuador and her village in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which she said she left because it was...
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