{"id":631142,"date":"2018-10-03T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=631142"},"modified":"2018-10-01T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T00:23:29","slug":"critics-say-new-barriers-on-border-bridge-are-meant-to-deter-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/10\/critics-say-new-barriers-on-border-bridge-are-meant-to-deter-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics say new barriers on border bridge are meant to deter asylum-seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ver\u00f3nica G. C\u00e1rdenas \/ for The Texas Tribune<\/p>

Immigration attorney Jodi Goodwin, center, talks to Nicaraguan asylum-seekers while they wait for Customs and Border Protection agents on the U.S. side of the international bridge in Hidalgo on Sept. 15.<\/p><\/div>\n

REYNOSA, Mexico \u2014 Juliana Gonzales is a close observer of migrant foot traffic on the Texas-Mexico border; she makes a living washing cars as they wait to cross the international bridge into the United States.<\/p>\n

And lately, she’s noticed a change: a big booth perched at the bridge’s halfway point, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are stopping and turning away asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n

“They cross running really fast, but then they get stopped,” she said. And then they wait.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes they stay there [on the bridge] sleeping,” Gonzales added.<\/p>\n