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Asylum-seekers camped out for months on the Mexican side of the border waiting to legally enter the US hope Joe Biden wins the election, or they fear they will never get in.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of migrants are enduring the muddy, smelly encampment in Matamoros while they wait, for how long they don't know, for appointments with Customs and Border Protection.
The tents are slick with mildew, stink from the portable toilets wafts through the air, mixing with the scent of chicken cooking on outdoor fires, with shoes ruined by the journey, discarded dolls, and assorted trash piled on the fringes.
Just over the Rio Grande is Brownsville, Texas, one of the biggest crossings, both controlled and irregular, along the southern border that is an ongoing flashpoint in the immigration crisis.
Unlike the up to 10,000 migrants swimming the river, scaling walls and clambering through razor wire to cross the border every day, the asylum-seekers in this camp applied through the CBP One app.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of migrants are enduring the muddy, smelly encampment in Matamoros while they wait for appointments with Customs and Border Protection
The tents are slick with mildew, stink from the portable toilets wafts through the air, mixing with the scent of chicken cooking on outdoor fires
Just over the Rio Grande is Brownsville, Texas , one of the biggest crossings, both controlled and irregular, along the southern border
The app allows them to claim asylum and wait for an interview at the border, after which they are released into the US pending a hearing to determine the validity of their claim.
Until they receive the email with their appointment time, they wait, in the vague hope their time will come and their months-long journey won't have been in vain.
But they all have one big worry totally out of their control. If they don't make it over the border by election day, they need Biden to prevail over Donald Trump.
'I want Biden to win,' Daniel Cortez, 45, a mechanic from Honduras told The Free Press.
His friend Richard Betancourt,
