As The Line Into America Slows, Communities Form, And Wait, On The Mexican Side
U.S. border officials strictly limit the number of asylum seekers they allow to legally cross ports of entry every day, creating an enormous backlog of migrants in places like Matamoros.
Thousands of asylum-seekers from Central America, Cuba and elsewhere have massed in Mexican border cities, waiting and hoping to be granted legal entry to the United States. They have created a humanitarian crisis, and they're growing impatient.
Responding to that crisis, the Trump administration threatened last week to impose tariffs to pressure Mexico to block the streams of migrants who are crossing its southern border bound for the United States.
In a , President Trump warned that the U.S. would begin imposing a tariff on June 10, "until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP." If the problem is not
