Posted on 01/21/2019 1:09:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. - They crossed just before dawn. And there was little to stop them.
At around 5 a.m. last Monday, a group of 84 migrants hurried off a large tour bus on a Mexican highway, crawled under a small fence and walked into the United States.
Customs and Border Protection videotaped the migrants, all families from Central America, crossing the border in Quitobaquito Springs in Arizonas Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, a four-hour drive from Tucson.
Border agents used a mobile surveillance capability truck to capture images of the crossing.
Fernando Grijalva, CBPs patrol agent in charge of the area where the migrants were dropped off, said his agents use the cameras to monitor larger expanses of the border.
He saw a bus stop on the Mexican side of the border, Grijalva said. The bus driver got out, opened the doors and then proceeded to have approximately 80 people exit the bus and cross into the United States illegally.
Grijalva, who has worked with CBP for over 30 years, says this incident highlights what he calls a crisis on the southern border unlike anything hes seen before.
Whats changed is the dynamics of the groups, Grijalva said. Now its a lot of unaccompanied children or family groups.
In the past, he said, border agents apprehended Mexican males crossing the border to find seasonal work.
Whether this amounts to a crisis has become a central issue in the partial government shutdown, now entering its fifth week.
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They are brought into detention and fingerprinted. After that it is determined what there status is that is whether or not they will be prosecuted or just returned to their country of origin. It is in detention that they can also claim asylum, if someone claims asylum the agent fills out the paper work and the rest is left up to the judge.
No the military can not stop or arrest anyone. When the military was first deployed they were told that they could not protect an agent even if we were being shot at they could not shoot back to defend agents. They changed that rule but they are forbidden from doing any immigration enforcement.
Maybe we should only offer asylum papers in Swedish? It wouldn’t be our fault if that can’t fill them out. *bada*boom*kisk*
But seriously, written in legalese and must be filled out in exacting legalese.
Even the Swedes could read Swedish....
I knew they would start showing up at Organ Pipe.
Fellow Arizonian here. Thank you for your service Sir. To be highly appreciated.
Here they come... and there they go.
Turning cameras off and moving surveillance trucks because they see to many illegals who are not caught already happens. We only have so much man power and it is bad for management if we dont catch everything that we see.
98charlie wrote: “if someone claims asylum the agent fills out the paper work and the rest is left up to the judge.”
What happens while they wait on the judge to decide? Are they released or they kept in custody?
Remember those BS stories of all the disappointed immigrants leaving tijuana and going home?
Say.....You don’t think...................
I dont know what happens once they leave our facility. After we do the paperwork they are put on a bus and taken to another station or taken to the port to be returned to mexico.
Now that seems a contradiction in terms worth a chuckle.
They will bargain for anything in place of permanent barriers, simply because permanent barriers will delay their near-term goals.
Those goals are easily discerned by simply looking at their political record for the past few decades. They qualify for many titles but at the core they are anti-MAGA (see the sidewalks in SF for example).
98charlie wrote: “I dont know what happens once they leave our facility. After we do the paperwork they are put on a bus and taken to another station or taken to the port to be returned to mexico.”
Or, since they can’t be detained, they are released into the general population pending the adjudication of their asylum request. Of course, they have to ‘pinky promise’ to return for the court date in two or three years.
The gofund me money should be given to the border patrol ...as a gift!
They are not released from station. They have to go to another station after ours. They might be released from there but I dont know for sure.
10 Billion additional taxpayer dollars recently rewarded to Mexico n central America buys nice things. Anyone who has taken a 5 year old to Disney knows they didn’t walk. 10 Billion dollars to them and not even half of that for the wall.
Yep, Mexico is really paying.
Militarize ICE, put them and the coasties in the DOD budget and keep them paid and active.
To do otherwise is downright stupid. Of course that fits with this nation. A ship of fools.
Posse comitatus doesn’t have a thing to do with protecting our borders and sovereignty.
It’s like the TV commercial. “Oh, I’m not a security guard. I’m a security MONITOR.”
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