A gay man from Guatemala who the Trump administration forced to pursue his asylum case in Mexico arrived in the U.S. on Wednesday.
Estuardo Cifuentes — who had lived in the Mexican border city of Matamoros since his enrollment in the Migrant Protection Protocols program in June 2019 — and a group of other asylum seekers with active MPP cases were tested for the coronavirus before they boarded a bus that drove them over the Gateway International Bridge.
Cifuentes and the asylum seekers disembarked at the main bus station in Brownsville, Texas, which is two blocks from the port of entry.
Cifuentes shortly before 9 p.m. EST sent the Washington Blade a picture of himself standing in front of a sign outside of the port of entry that reads,