Asylum seekers face decision to split up families or wait indefinitely under new border policy

They weren’t worried though — they had heard about families in similar situations being waved through by border officials. AdvertisementNow many families like Jeyson’s have found themselves confronted with a seemingly impossible decision: Wait indefinitely for enough appointments for the whole family, or split up. Now the only government-sanctioned way to request humanitarian protection at the border, it requires all members of a family to have confirmed appointments. But under a pandemic-era public health policy called Title 42, migrants are prevented from seeking asylum at the border. Jeyson said he watched as the children walked up to a border agent and were taken into custody.