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In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, photo, migrant Justina holds her daughter, Samantha, at a refugee camp where she lives in Matamoros, Mexico. Shortly after they entered the U.S. to seek asylum in September, Justina and Samantha were taken to a type of Border Patrol station that migrants refer to as the “hielera,” or icebox. Samantha started having a fever and a cough. Eventually, her illness developed into pneumonia. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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The camp is an outgrowth of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which has sent more than 55,000 migrants south of the border to wait and pursue their asylum cases.
