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  • MATAMOROS, MEXICO - DECEMBER 09: A Mexican asylum seeker, L, waits with his family on the international bridge from Mexico to the United States on December 09, 2019 next to the border town of Matamoros, Mexico. They were hoping to be taken across by U.S. officials to an immigration court hearing in Brownsville, Texas. More than 1,000 Central American and Mexican asylum seekers have been staying, many for months, in a squalid camp, located next to the bridge in Matamoros, Mexico. Immigrant families seeking asylum are now required by the U.S. government to stay in Mexico as part of the Trump Administration's "Remain in Mexico" process for people legally seeking political asylum in the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)