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NEW, from @Fer_Echavarri: Asylum seekers are being asked to show up at US ports of entry as early as 3:30 in the morning before their court dates in the United States—forcing some women and children to stay on the streets in dangerous Mexican border towns motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Mexican border cities have long been perilous places for Central American migrants and other asylum seekers—and now, thanks to the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico plan, some 42,000 people have been sent there to wait on their asylum hearings motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
By forcing these asylum seekers—many of them women with children—to show up at the border in the dead of night, the Trump administration is exposing an already vulnerable population to even greater risk motherjones.com/politics/2019/… 
.@Fer_Echavarri spoke to a woman we’ll call Diana who was asked to show up at the border at 3:30 with her daughter. They stayed in a dingy room in Tijuana without running water that night, and then hurried to the port of entry at 3. motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Even though Diana and around 70 other asylum seekers showed up between 3 and 4 in the morning, she said it wasn’t until 5:30 or 6 that US officials starting processing them to get ready for court in San Diego motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Meanwhile, Diana’s hearing didn’t lead to much in the way of a resolution. She’s back in Tijuana for the moment, and she’s got another court date in San Diego coming up soon. This time, her call time at the border is 4 a.m. Read more from @Fer_Echavarri: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
