After surge and outcry, limbo for Central Americans

FILE - In this June 27, 2018 file photo, Buena Ventura Martin Godinez, from Guatemala, sits with her son Pedro during an interview in Homestead, Florida. Godinez, who worked as a nurse in Guatemala, said she and her husband decided to leave San Juan Atitan because masked men were demanding extortion payments from her husband's small business selling Internet access. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Godínez has a long wait before knowing if she will get asylum, with her next date at the immigration court set for 2022. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Honduran immigrant Delmi Funez, second from left, holds her 6-month-old son Ayden as she poses for a portrait with her sister Tania Rodriguez and Tania's husband Isaac Redondo, who holds Delmi's 3-year-old daughter Amber, in the small apartment they share in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Funez, 29, said she left her country in 2018 because she was raped there and threatened, and crossed the border in December of that year with Amber, then one-year-old. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

FILE - In this June 27, 2018 file photo, Pedro reaches for the ankle monitor on his mother, Buena Ventura Martin Godinez, from Guatemala, outside their home in Homestead, Florida. Godinez, who worked as a nurse in Guatemala, said she and her husband decided to leave San Juan Atitan, Guatemala because masked men were demanding extortion payments from her husband's small business selling Internet access. Due to the pandemic, the next hearing at immigration court for her and her two children will be in 2022. Her husband was deported. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)