The border has been functionally closed for anyone seeking asylum or trying to immigrate to the United States since last month, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pedro Rios, the director of U.S.-Mexico Border Program at the American Friends Service Committee, says that further restrictions or stigma of immigrants on both sides of the border is the opposite of what’s needed right now.
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The border has been functionally closed for anyone seeking asylum or trying to immigrate to the United States since last month, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pedro Rios, the director of U.S.-Mexico Border Program at the American Friends Service Committee, says that further restrictions or stigma of immigrants on both sides of the border is the opposite of what’s needed right now.