Karen came to the United States in 2019, with her 9 year old daughter. But after her daughter returned to Guatemala, immigration enforcement officials approached and detained Karen, holding her in New Jersey's Elizabeth Detention Center. Today, she is fighting her deportation, while working to support herself in New York.

AFSC's Pedro Rios reports from the U.S. – Mexico border in Tijuana.

At the start of the pandemic, the Trump administration closed the southern border to asylum seekers, deporting many back to dangerous conditions—against the advice of public health experts who found there was no public health justification for the decision.