January 23, 2020 — 0 A few photos from El Paso and Juárez From Tuesday and Wednesday. Outside the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso. Mount Cristo Rey, west of El Paso in the New Mexico desert, viewed at night. The Rio Grande, seen from the Paso del Norte border bridge. These tents on the Ciudad Juárez side of the border denote the area where asylum-seeking migrants get returned when subjected to the “Remain in Mexico” program, which requires them to await their hearing dates on Mexican soil. Kidnappers who prey on migrants often operate just outside this tent area, making them very vulnerable here. Caribe Queen, a Cuban restaurant in downtown Ciudad Juárez, founded within the past year by Cuban asylum seekers forced to “Remain in Mexico” pending their hearing dates in the United States. Mexican National Guardsmen in a playground along the Rio Grande (the area of green brush behind them). The border fence is in the background, set far back from the actual borderline—the elevated highway is actually in the United States, between the fence and the river. A Mexican National Guardsman reads his phone near the border fence. Graffiti on the fence in Anapra, west of Juárez. Central American children forced to “remain in Mexico” play at the Pan de Vida shelter in western Juárez. Only five of twelve lanes open at the Paso del Norte port of entry, where the wait to get back into the United States was about 45 minutes. The day ahead: January 23, 2020 The day ahead: January 24, 2020