JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) — It was a friendship born of need inside a cold government shelter in Juarez.

President Donald Trump had just taken office and shut down all avenues to asylum last January.

Newly arrived migrants found themselves staring at soldiers on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande. Asylum-seekers checking the status of their online appointment instead saw messages inviting them to return home.

While many of their peers have done just that in the past seven months, Yamilet, a Salvadoran woman, and Grisel Mendez, a Venezuelan mother of three, remain in Juarez hanging on to hope the U.S. will eventually reopen its doors to those fleeing poverty, political oppression and crime in their countries.

“We could not go to our appointment because they did away with it,” Mendez s

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