Posted on 12/24/2019 11:30:54 AM PST by bgill
Freezing overnight temperatures and growing frustration over long waits to get an initial interview with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in El Paso are to blame, Mexican officials and activists told Border Report.
The camps fashioned out of blue tarps and black plastic sheets sprung up in September south of the Paso del Norte and Zaragoza international bridges, as well as in a park near the Bridge of the Americas. The camps at one point held up to 3,000 people, mostly families, but as of Monday, only about 600 remained, according to Juarez police.
Activists in El Paso who have been visiting the camps in Juarez said they are saddened but not surprised that many asylum seekers are giving up.
“It was very obvious that this Administration did not intend to help these asylum seekers or even take their petitions,” said Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights.
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That's ok, many will just hop in their cousin's car on the way back from grandma's for the holidays and be in the US no problemo.
“many asylum seekers are giving up”
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hey Senor Garcia. Tough sh!t cabron. The American taxpayer isn’t responsible for paying your way to a better life. Fix your own damn country.
Feliz Navidad, adios!
I mean, that was the whole point.
Why not help get their own countries straight? Hundreds of thousands have died trying to get American right, safe and free. There are still things in America that are not right, safe or perfect but we don't run to other countries demanding they take us in. Do the good people in Mexico not outnumber the bad guys? They do, so why don't they fight to make their country right? Or is it really all about taking the easy way out and grabbing the freebies in the U.S?
It’s a big world. There are many lovely places to relocate. Besides, everyone knows what a crummy place the US is.
Maybe Dr Jill should bring them to their mansion.
Article tries to make it sound like this is a bad thing.
this Administration did not intend to help these asylum seekers or even take their petitions
U.S. asylum laws were written for Soviet chess players and gymnasts who wanted to defect from oppressive Communist regimes on an individual basis, not armies of "economic refugees" fleeing the gang warfare they partook in and the abusive boyfriends they procreated with.
At last! They finally went home!
We have an old saying back in Vancouver on why mexicans dont immigrate to canada...it’s too cold.
Yup. This climate change crap actually helped!
And I really hope they do.
They can’t come here illegally because OUR forefathers died to fix our own country.
And becoming part of the USA is a privilege, not a right.
YES, many mexicans will likely have to die to fix their country.
That’s a shame but it’s just the truth so get to it because there is no time like the present.
Still not tired of winning! While I sincerely hope that Mexico and other countries will get their act together, their failure do not entitle them to come here.
We really should be helping all these poor people:
Mr President,
please begin massive roundups and deportations of the Illegal Alien Population in the United States, you can start here in Mexifornia, their Countrymen Need them .
Mexico has iissues especially with border areas but the whole dang country is not a hell hole. There many nice livable areas in Mexico. They can’t go there? Well of course they can but they won’t get all the free stuff or have victum/minority status.
Winning
Mexican laws actively discourage illegal immigration,it’s a felony punishable by prison time.
Julian Resendiz wants us to feel sorry for illegals...
Maybe his next article can be about some poor thief who is afraid to break into a home because the security system will call the police and he'll get caught.
Julian Resendiz doesn't get it... we're not gullible anymore. We know almost all of the 'seekers' are lying to get into the United States. They want to live here because our country is better, freer, wealthier, and has the rule of law. Rather than do the work to make their own countries free, they come here, vote for democrats and put our country at risk of becoming a hellhole.
We need to reject all of them...
Awwwaah!
Use the front door next time.
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