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Border Patrol leaves migrants stranded in San Diego as shelters reach capacity – Los Angeles Times

By Thomas A. Smith

SAN DIEGO   

After the migrants stepped off a bus in San Diego, Border Patrol agents ushered them across the street to a parking lot, then left.

The migrants stood there, asking questions: When were the agents coming back? Hadn t the agents promised them a hotel room for the night?

After arduous journeys from countries including Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Turkey, Cameroon, Guinea, Ghana and Burkina Faso, they were finally on U.S. soil, free to seek out friends and relatives around the country while their immigration cases were being adjudicated. But the joy they should have felt seemed absent, overtaken by their confusion about what to do next.

via www.latimes.com

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