Migrant Families Block Bridge on US-Mexico Border

Asylum seekers occupied a bridge from Matamoros, Mexico to Brownsville, Texas, Thursday, October 10, leading to the closure of the border crossing.
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READ MORE: Migrants, returned to Mexico to await their U.S. asylum hearings, block the Puerta Mexico international border crossing bridge to demand a faster asylum process, in Matamoros, Mexico, Oct. 10, 2019.

U.S. border officials shut down two bridges between the United States and Mexico early Thursday after hundreds of mostly Central American migrants protested at the ports of entry.

The demonstration occurred in Matamoros, the Mexican city across from Brownsville, Texas.
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