Citing a provision of the public health code known as Title 42 and the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has largely barred the entry of immigrants and asylum-seekers into the country. Some exceptions are made when they allow some children under the age of seven years old to be processed after they have crossed the border illegally. Usually the rest of the asylum seekers who cross illegally are sent back to Mexico or their home countries.
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Kevin, 28, an asylum seeker from Honduras, carries his 4-year-old son as he tries to help his wife that fell in the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas.
Asylum seekers wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents in Roma, Texas.
Asylum seekers pray after having just crossed the Rio Grande in a prayer lead by pastor Luis Silva, not pictured in Roma, Texas.
Asylum seekers get off a raft that they used to travel from Miguel Aleman, Mexico through the Rio Grande into Roma, Texas.
A Border Patrol agent hands a face mask to a Nicaraguan mother as her and her 9-year-old son, right, start to get processed after having crossed the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas.
.A Border Patrol agent collects important belongings from asylum seekers that will be later returned to them in Roma, Texas.
A Central American mother and her son are being processed by a Border Patrol agent after having crossed the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas.
Kevin, 28, center, an asylum seeker from Honduras, carries his 4-year-old son as him and his wife, left, wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas.
Asylum seekers are seen in Miguel Aleman, Mexico, waiting to cross the Rio Grande into Roma, Texas.
Asylum seekers wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents after having crossed the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas.