Consider sharing this is July 30, 2026, report from NPR Morning Edition‘s Ximena Bustillo with friends and relatives who say immigrants should do it the legal way.
“There are more than 1 million pending asylum applications at USCIS, and another couple million at immigration courts. The agency paused the review of all applications for several months over the winter, leaving thousands of applicants in limbo. Lawyers said they had clients detained while attending their asylum interviews at USCIS.”
Photo: Asylum seekers queue at the entrance of Mexico’s Refugee Help Commission and UNHCR offices in Tijuana, Mexico on January 24, 2025. Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images
Madhuri Shukla, Detention Watch Network, via JustSeeds.org