SAN DIEGO — Days before he was scheduled to go to the San Ysidro Port of Entry with his family to request asylum, a 7-year-old boy died in Tijuana.
The child was a client of Al Otro Lado, a legal services nonprofit that supports asylum-seekers in Tijuana. He and his family were waiting to receive exemptions to Title 42, which will soon be ending after a federal judge ordered it vacated last week.
The boy is one among many who have died waiting for it to end, said Erika Pinheiro, the organization's executive director. She said the judge's order would save lives.
