- Title: Mass unites Mexicans, Americans separated by border fence
- Date: 27th February 2019
- Summary: CUCUTA, COLOMBIA (FEBRUARY 27, 2019) (REUTERS) YOUNG GIRL LAUGHING IN LINE AFTER RECEIVING FOOD AT SHELTER VARIOUS, PEOPLE - MOSTLY VENEZUELANS - IN LINE, RECEIVING FOOD AT SHELTER ELDERLY VENEZUELAN WOMAN, ELENA GOMEZ, EATING CLOSE, PLATE OF FOOD GOMEZ NEXT TO TABLE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) VENEZUELAN WOMAN WHO CAME TO COLOMBIA TO FIND MEDICINE AND MEDICAL TREATMENT, ELENA G
- Embargoed: 13th March 2019 03:53
- Keywords: border fence Central America mass Chihuahua U.S.A. caravan Ciudad Juarez Mexico President Donald Trump migrants
- Location: CIUDAD JUAREZ, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO
- City: CIUDAD JUAREZ, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001A3CXSUF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Mexican and American Catholics came together at the border fence separating the two countries for mass on Tuesday (February 26), in a show of unity against President Donald Trump's border wall push for the entire border.
Dozens of faithful from the two neighbouring countries joined priests and bishops in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez and Texas' El Paso for the service, braving the brown haze and strong sun of this dry area of the border.
Millions of migrants living in the U.S. face an uncertain future amidst Trump's push against undocumented migrants and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, programme.
On the Mexican side in the state of Chihuahua, at least 1,000 Central American migrants are in limbo hopeful of a chance at working in the U.S. to escape poverty and violence back home.
Trump has sent thousands of additional military troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to support border agents and thwart what he described as "the tremendous onslaught" of U.S.-bound migrants.
Asylum seekers have traditionally been granted the right to stay in the United States while their cases were decided by a U.S. immigration judge, but a backlog of more than 800,000 cases means the process can take years.
The Trump administration announced a policy on Dec. 20 that the United States will return non-Mexican migrants who cross the border back to Mexico while their asylum requests are processed.
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