MCALLEN, Texas – In the Texas town of McAllen, Central American asylum-seekers are being released and are dispersing across the U.S.
That is admittedly only one snapshot of the unsettled situation along the nation's southern border, where President Donald Trump's reversal on separating families has sown chaos and uncertainty and there has been little guidance from the administration.
Among those set free is Manuel Martinez, who says he fled Honduras because gangs were trying to recruit his 12-year-old son.
Martinez was prepared to be separated from his child after paying a smuggler to cross the Rio Grande by boat and getting arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol. But his worst fears never came true.
Father and son were reunited on Saturday, after five days apart, and were released into the U.S. while Martinez pursues asylum.
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