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Some asylum aspirants pin hopes on Trump-era policy

FILE - A pair of migrant families from Brazil seeking asylum walk through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., June 10, 2021. Despite the appearance of asylum being virtually banned, U.S. authorities process about six of every 10 people who cross illegally under immigration laws, which include the right to seek asylum. Nearly all of them, about 100,000 in December 2021 alone, are released or detained in the U.S. while judges consider their cases. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File) FILE- Migrants sleep under a gazebo at a park in Reynosa, Mexico, March 27, 2021. Migrants have seen asylum shut down under U.S. restrictions that deny humanitarian protections on grounds of preventing spread of the coronavirus, a Trump-era policy that the Biden administration supports. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File) FILE - Migrants mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua seeking asylum sit in line after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, in La Joya, Texas, May 17, 2021. The U.S. returned its first asylum-seekers under its “Migrant Protection Protocols” policy in the last week of January 2022 in Brownsville, Texas, the latest step in a slow-moving rollout across the border to make asylum hearings available to migrants who wait in Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)