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Mana Yegani

Three members of a caravan of migrants from Central America embrace and pray near the San Ysidro checkpoint after the first fellow migrants entered U.S. territory to seek asylum, at an improvised shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 30, 2018.

How does seeking asylum work at the US border?

After weeks of travel across Mexico by bus, freight train and foot, more than 150 migrants from Central America — part of a caravan that has gained international attention — await their turn to apply for asylum at the Southern US border. Just how does the process work?

People protest to call for a new DREAM Act to replace DACA in Los Angeles, California, Jan.17, 2018.

Fear, not ‘laziness’, is one reason some immigrants haven’t applied for DACA

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