The number of asylum seekers crossing into the United States is expanding as the Biden administration has eased restrictions on migrations.
MIREYA VILLARREAL: Riding on this bus in South Texas are the results of President Biden’s first steps to reform the country’s immigration system. Met with cheers, these 27 migrants were waiting in Mexico under what the Trump administration called its Migrant Protection Protocols Program or MPP, now one step closer to having their asylum cases heard. The Trump administration’s policy forced more than 70,000 people to remain in Mexico, many setting up camp here in Matamoros waiting for their cases, some for nearly two years, the riverbank now a playground for hundreds of kids in limbo.
SAM BISHOP: These are not the people you need to be worried about you know.
MIREYA VILLARREAL: Sam Bishop is a veteran who says these migrants deserve a fair shot….