preventing the spread of covid19 many are quickly expelled without a chance to seek asylum but title 42 authority which a federal judge in louisiana has kept in place is applied unevenly by nationality in eagle pass texas one of the busiest spots for illegal crossings cubans freely wade through the rio grande and are released in the united states on humanitarian parole aided by cubas refusal to take them back on the flip side mexico has agreed to take back migrants expelled from honduras el salvador and guatemala as well as mexico cristian salgado of honduras hoped he would be treated as cubans he saw when he crossed illegally with his wife and 5yearold son about a month ago but us authorities turned him back to the mexican border city of piedras negras without allowing him to plead his case he remembers a border agent saying there is no asylum for honduras