Posted on 09/11/2019 6:53:04 PM PDT by Mariner
HOUSTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that new immigration courts in tents on the Texas border with Mexico will be closed to legal observers, the media and the public.
Immigration lawyers condemned the restrictions as a violation of the due process rights of asylum-seekers.
Federal contractors built the two massive tents along the Rio Grande in the cities of Brownsville and Laredo this summer at a cost of $25 million.
The so-called “port courts” were designed to host hearings for the more than 42,000 asylum-seekers who were returned to Mexico while their cases proceed under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program that started in January, according to acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan.
Immigration judges in San Antonio will hear those cases over a video link, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.
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In addition to them not being able to claim asylum if they passed through another country, we have increased our adjudication capacity to thousands per day.
And the commies don't get to go to those facilities to incite riot. They have to watch the proceedings via CC TV.
A great day indeed.
Did I mention they have to stay in Mexico until we send them back to Mexico?
They get a bus ride to the tent, a 10min hearing and then a bus ride back.
And no recourse.
Good! But frankly since when does the fake news need to actually witness or investigate anything anyway, they just make up whatever they want from wherever...
12 mil per TENT. :\
“They get a bus ride to the tent, a 10min hearing and then a bus ride back.”
Adding insult to injury.
I love it.
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Cheap at 10X the price.
” Immigration lawyers”
Their livelihood depends on tying up this simple adjudication in the regular courts.
“Lupe, how did you get to your point of surrender or apprehension”?
Next.
This is how it works in a lot of Az jails. Initial arraignment is by video court to a judge from jail. So why not? they are not even citizens.
“Federal contractors built the two massive tents along the Rio Grande in the cities of Brownsville and Laredo this summer at a cost of $25 million.”
I would like to know what goes into a 12.5 million dollar tent.
Info on the tents.
Also, they have a lot of traffic to manage, as people move through, and don't want anyone caught underfoot.
I presume that includes facility operations and maintenance for some period of time.
The tents appear to a be very efficient way to humanely process these illegals back to Central America. They’re modular and look like they could knock them down and transport them to the next hot spot very easily. This flexibility will serve Trump well as he begins to get real results on the border.
Only the federal government could spend $25 million putting up a few tents. They should have hired the local fleamarket or circus.
IAC, since the new transporters are only 12% successful at present, using them for a few hundred thousand migrant invaders will provide the data to get them redesigned...
“Info on the tents”
Thank you. Most of the 12.5 million dollars can be packed up and reused somewhere elce. Can the army have it when we get the border fixed?
“The new vinyl structures are 400 feet long and 100 feet wide, and they can hold 500 people at a time. The tents come with modern amenities and are climate-controlled to withstand the 100-degree temperatures South Texas sees during the summer months.
The facilities have separate areas inside for eating, sleeping, recreation, and bathrooms. Those areas include showers, chemical toilets instead of outhouses, sinks, laundry machines, sleeping mats, kitchen equipment, and storage for personal items. Migrants in custody receive “mats, blankest, hot meals and snacks, drinking water, diapers, wipes, clothing sets, and hygiene kits,” the agency said.”
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