US border clampdown forces Venezuelan teen into Mexico alone
(WorldNews Mexico)

HOUSTON (AP) - A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence, even after they accepted the same claims from her father. The teenager, who is being identified by only her first name, Branyerly, is living alone in Matamoros, Mexico, across from Brownsville. U.S. border agents on Monday denied her request not to be sent back under the Trump administration’s so-called `Remain in Mexico` program for migrants. Branyerly and her father could not request asylum under another Trump policy, a ban on...