US: ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program Harming Children

Expand A Salvadoran family stays at the Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in June 2019 while they wait for their asylum cases to be heard in US immigration court. Like the dozens of other families in the shelter, they sleep on mats in between pews in the chapel.  © 2019 AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio (Washington, DC) – A United States government program exposes children, as well as their parents, seeking asylum to serious risk of assault, mistreatment, and trauma while waiting for their cases to be heard, Human Rights Watch said today in a joint investigation report. Human Rights…

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