Explosion of asylum claims driving the global migrant crisis

Border Patrol officers dealing with asylum-seeking migrants after the group crossed the US-Mexico border near Jacumba Hot Springs in California. (Image: AP)

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Sat, 13 Apr 2024

By David Luhnow, Alicia Caldwell and Juan Forero About a mile north of the US-Mexico border, a makeshift collection of multicoloured blankets and tarpaulins blooms in the Californian desert. The people waiting there are migrants from around the world, most of whom snuck through a gap where a 5.5-metre steel wall meets a rocky hill outside the desert town of Jacumba Hot Springs, about an hour east of San Diego. The camp has a name, hand-painted on a plywood sign and lit with a solar-powered light for people arriving at night: Campo de...

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