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Central American migrants stand in line before entering a temporary shelter, after illegally crossing the border between Mexico and the U.S., in Deming, New Mexico, on May 16, 2019.

Supreme Court’s asylum decision is a ‘recipe for chaos,’ experts say

Immigration

Lawyers in the US and Mexico say the decision to temporarily allow a new Trump administration asylum ban to go into effect could overwhelm Mexico’s asylum system and encourage asylum seekers to take more covert routes into the US.

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