‘Blocked And Broken’: Children Are Caught In An Asylum System Struggling To Reboot

By Texas Standard

Published March 18, 2021 at 1:19 PM CDT

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A young migrant in 2019 detained in an outside Border Patrol facility in El Paso. An Austin-based immigration attorney says the current overcrowding at Border Patrol facilities is the result of an asylum system halted by the Trump administration.

Lynda M. González for KUT

“We’re seeing an asylum system being put back online."