Asylum seekers have set up a camp outside the San Ysidro Port of Entry to wait for policies to change so they can request asylum. When the pandemic began, ports of entry stopped taking asylum seekers altogether, and the waitlist shut down, too. Historically, that part of Texas has also been a common crossing place for asylum seekers in recent years. That statistic is even lower for groups that are often used as an approximation for measuring asylum seekers’ movements. San Diego Border Patrol agents are also processing border crossers from Yuma.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2021 18:51 UTC