‘They’re playing with our lives’ say the first migrants returned under new Mexico policy

A crowd of Nicaraguans, Haitians and Hondurans gathered Wednesday around two young men who had just shuffled into the dusty courtyard of a small shelter in northeast Tijuana, a Mexican border city.

“Why are you back?” a Haitian woman with a baby on her hip asked.

“The gringos sent us to wait here,” one answered, visibly annoyed. “I don’t know why they picked us.”