Posted on 04/09/2020 6:38:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN DIEGO - A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn’t let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter needed asylum, pointing to the coronavirus. That confrontation in Texas came just days after the Trump administration quietly shut down the nation’s asylum system for the first time in decades in the name of public health.
“The agent told us about the virus and that we couldn’t go further, but she didn’t let us speak or anything,” said Reyes, 35, who was shuttled to a crossing March 24 in Reynosa, Mexico, a violent border city.
She tried to get home to crime-ridden Honduras despite learning her brother had been killed there and her mother and 7-year-old daughter had fled to the Nicaraguan border. But she was stuck in Mexico as the virus closed borders in Central America.
The U.S. government used an obscure public health law to justify one of its most aggressive border crackdowns ever. People fleeing violence and poverty to seek refuge in the U.S. are whisked to the nearest border crossing and returned to Mexico without a chance to apply for asylum. It eclipses President Donald Trump’s other policies to curtail immigration — which often rely on help from Mexico - by setting aside decades-old national and international laws.
Mexico is again providing critical support. It’s accepting not only Mexicans, but people from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras who accounted for well over half of all U.S. border arrests last year.
The Trump administration has offered little detail on the rules that, unlike its other immigration policies, have yet to be challenged in court. The secrecy means the rules got little attention as they took effect March 20, the same day Trump announced the southern border was closed to nonessential travel.
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Byebye now.
We should be doing this anyway.
A good way to get the media to end its hysteria campaign about the virus.
Journalism With a Snarl
They should seek asylum through an embassy.
They should seek asylum in a neighboring country (Mexico).
Showing up at the border should be a no-go.
Never let a crisis go to waste. hehe
I agree. Trump should point out every day that our borders are closed.
Sounds like a great idea too me.Keep the borders locked down.
Can’t wait to see how they’ll spin this one.
Associated Press? No Sale!
She “...was shuttled to the border....”. Shuttled by whom? In a luxury limousine? On a luxury helicopter ride? From Honduras? At whose expense? FU AP, the Commie mouth-piece bastards...
The largest portion of the people who died in NYC didn’t speak English.
It took a writer and two political minders to write this propaganda
All should be stood against a wall and shot
Where’s Liberty Valence when we need him?
And saw a report on OANN this morning saying Illinois can track over 350 cases directly to prisoners they released...you know....for safety...
Good.
Now deport all illegals. No exceptions.
Goodbye and good luck.
BUH BYE
We need to eventually find out how much of this panicvirus was caused by these illegals. Any coincidence with the tens of thousands of illegal border jumpers weekly coming here two or three years ago and the increasing number of virus cases here?
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