Posted on 03/22/2019 8:28:04 AM PDT by CedarDave
EL PASO – In a major shift, the Department of Homeland Security is about to begin sending asylum-seekers who crossed the border in the El Paso region back to Mexico, where they will wait for their cases to be heard.
The changes under the migrant protection protocols are set to start by the end of the week. Currently, families seeking asylum usually are released within days and allowed to remain in the United States for months, and sometimes years, for their cases to wind through the court system.
In recent weeks, several hundred asylum-seeking migrants a day have been crossing through the El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico. Most crossed illegally – often waiting for and waving down Border Patrol – while a few dozen of those waiting to cross at the border checkpoints were allowed in each day.
“It’s a crisis because we are not ready as a city,” Jorge Muñoz, migrant relief coordinator at a makeshift shelter in Ciudad Juárez, said of the change. The shelter lies just across the border from El Paso.
Authorities in Mexico were notified in meetings this week about the U.S. plan to expand the migrant protection protocols along this stretch of border.
Under the plan the Trump administration first called “Remain in Mexico,” asylum applicants will be sent south of the border to wait while their cases move through immigration courts in the U.S. The protocols are already in place in the Mexican border cities of Tijuana and Calexico and now have been expanded to include Ciudad Juárez.
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Thank you God! Thank you! Thank you!
Finally! I wondered what happen to Trump trying to make this change.
Wonderful news. They need to seek asylum in their home countries as IT should be done. Adios you third world trash.
*** By the end of the week, this will change. Most asylum-seekers will be sent back to Mexico as soon as they are processed.***
I am in TX. Hundreds of illegals are being dumped at the Laredo, TX Greyhound bus station this evening. The San Antonio Greyhound station put the word out days ago for the illegals to stop being dumped there by feds & aid agencies.
I think the Wait in Mexico Program is still only a pilot, and El Paso is the only place in Texas that I have heard about trying it so far.
It would be like a bomb for the Mexicans, if we just start dropping all those migrants back into their border cities, and they just built up there. By the second or third week they would be bursting at the seams.
I have not heard of the construction crews breaking ground yet on any of the new levee border wall around McAllen.
Have you?
I am assuming that they had to modify the contracts, after Congress made new restrictions in the appropriation. I’d guess the new start will be April or May.
Bury Mexico with them. Maybe they’ll do something then when the residents get tired of their towns being destroyed.
They do have their own federal government. They did have notice that the US intended to do this. So why didn’t they plan ahead and start building while there was time?
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