Posted on 04/04/2020 1:14:11 PM PDT by BeauBo
President Donald Trump has used emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic to implement the kind of strict enforcement regime at the U.S. southern border he has long wanted, suspending laws that protect minors and asylum seekers so that the U.S. government can immediately deport them or turn them away.
Citing the threat of “mass, uncontrolled cross-border movement,” the president has shelved safeguards intended to protect trafficking victims and persecuted groups, implementing an expulsion order that sends migrants of all ages back to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes. U.S. Border Patrol agents do not perform medical checks when they encounter people crossing into the country...
The most immediate impacts are that migrants who illegally cross the U.S. border are no longer taken to border stations where they would have the chance to file a claim for humanitarian protection and access to U.S. immigration courts; and some unaccompanied minors who typically would receive protection and shelter also are being turned away...
In the past 10 days, illegal crossings along the Mexico border have plunged nearly 40%, returning to the lowest levels of Trump’s presidency... The migrants taken into custody now are tallied as “encounters” rather than “apprehensions,” and they are “expelled” from the country rather than formally deported.
CBP officials say their marching orders are to turn migrants around as fast as possible to minimize the risk of exposure to the virus. After running quick background checks on criminal records, agents gather the migrants’ biometric info at open-air field stations before loading them into vans and taking them to Mexico...
Under Trump’s emergency orders, minors are being swiftly removed from the country, some of them flown back to Central America...
On Thursday, CBP did not refer any children to shelters.
(Excerpt) Read more at pressdemocrat.com ...
CBP officials and border agents say they fear a rush on the border if Mexican hospitals are overwhelmed, especially in the large border cities such as Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana that are home to millions of people...
Mexico is accepting the return of adults and families from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador who are “expelled.”
The Mexican government... in practice, are taking back virtually everyone from those three nations in addition to Mexican nationals, CBP officials say. The four countries account for more than 85% of unlawful border-crossers...
Mexican nationals and those expelled from the United States in recent days have been quickly loaded on to buses and taken to other Mexican states...
Juarez’s shelters are at high risk for spreading the coronavirus... the conditions and tight quarters will make stopping the spread nearly impossible. The shelter spaces are difficult to keep clean, residents might not have regular access to showers, and space for quarantining high-risk migrants is limited. The local Mexican health system also is taxed.
Another problem that’s easy to solve once someone just simply decides to do it.
American Law gives President Trump the authority to lock down the border.
No law has been suspended.
Mexico is running the Swedish “experiment” too.
No bias in that article, by golly.
I hope this is true.
No more squawking from obamajudges?
Maybe not so strange -
Polio-like illnesses called a ‘rare phenomenon
https://www.ksl.com/article/28826050/polio-like-illnesses-called-a-rare-phenomenon
“sends migrants of all ages back to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes.”
Should be SOP
“sends migrants of all ages back to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes”
It shouldn’t take 96 minutes to obtain fingerprints and a DNA sample. Why so long?/s
If there are no illegals, who will vote for democrats?
Sweet!
Now, keep it closed for 25 years.
Deport, viently if necessary, all Illegals.
Absorb LEGAL aliens, help them to become Americans, if not, throw them out too.
Part of the border, anyway.
The way all these left-wing articles and communications are written, stands as proof, their readers are the most illiterate, naive, gullible, brainwashed, airheads in the Western Hemisphere.
The raw data is just stupid.
#1. POTUS 45 did NOT suspend any laws!
#2. What’s wrong with this phrase — “...migrants who cross the border illegally...”?
Erc, etc, etc...
Some backwater liberal judge is sure to challenge it.
If nobody comes in, then he destroyed the market for human trafficking. That’s good. Take the victory you can win now, and work on the others later instead of complaining incessantly.
Are we still building one mile of wall every day?
Does anyone know. We see we need walls more than ever.
Washington ComPost agitprop printed in another paper.
Partisan Media Shills update.
The DNC and their allies in the liberal media are going to start squawking “IMPEACH!” all over again.
Tell you what ARELIS R. HERNÁNDEZ, go F yourself.
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