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In Nuevo Laredo asylum seekers wait weeks to approach Laredo’s port of entry. Even when called from the ‘list’ they wait on a bridge. Right now 50+ people are waiting in the wet & cold for up to 3 days. CBP let in only 10-15 daily in the past days. Some days no one is accepted.
We visited a shelter in Nuevo Laredo overflowing with asylum seekers waiting bc of CBP metering in danger. The shelter director told us many of the asylum seekers there had been victims of kidnapping & extortion by organized criminal groups.
Because of these dangers asylum seekers take refuge in the shelters. But at more than 3x capacity, pregnant women and women with newborns sleep on the floor of the shelter we visited. Others sleep in corridors and the concrete courtyard.
Asylum seekers at the shelter come from: Angola, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, DRC, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, among other countries.
