Fifteen-month-old Matias Marin sits on the lap of his mother Naciel Marin, 23, of Nicaragua, as they wait for travel instructions to Wisconsin at a bus station in Brownsville, Texas, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. The Marin family left their native Nicaragua a month and half ago to seek asylum in the U.S. During their trek, Matias has become ill with a cold that his mother said still lingers. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem Tuesday but insisted it’s under control and said he won’t revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. An official says U.S. authorities encountered nearly double the number children traveling alone across the Mexican border in one day this week than on an average day last month. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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