Asylum seekers with strong cases for protection have been sent back to danger, human rights report says

Stranded in Tijuana, a group of asylum seekers from Cameroon, Uganda and Ethiopia banded together in a shared hotel room. There, they would wait out Trump administration policies that had blocked their ability to request protection in the United States amid the pandemic.

The group has been harassed, threatened and extorted by Mexican officials since their arrival in the border city, an Ethiopian man told human rights researchers.

“The conditions are very horrible,” the man said of the hotel. “We have to buy everything like bed sheets and everything that...