‘Thought we’d made it’: New Biden rule leaves asylum seekers in limbo 

Those migrating from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela dumped back in Mexico after being expelled at US border, writes Nina Lakhani in Mexico City

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and US President Joe Biden at the National Palace in Mexico City.  The US isn’t alone in making it virtually impossible to seek asylum in America. Mexico and other Latin American countries have also changed rules repeatedly without warning.

Héctor González left Cuba just before Christmas, hoping to claim asylum in the US. After flying to Nicaragua, González and his wife travelled overland through Mexico and crossed the Rio Grande with at least 200 other Cubans in the early hours of January 8.

Exhausted but relieved to have made it safely to the US, González and the others filled out the forms and had their fingerprints and photographs taken by border officials in Eagle Pass, Texas. As they waited inside an immigration detention centre, spirits were high.