The experimental U.S. policy requires migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed. Homeland Security officials said the measure will soon expand to multiple border cities and apply to migrant families. EL PASO — While a federal appeals court weighs the Trump administration’s policy of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico to await court hearings in the United States, the government appears to be ignoring its own protocols for who it should send back across the border.
The 31-year-old woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she fears for her safety, said the family fled Honduras because criminals who had killed two of her husband’s cousins threatened to kill her family to keep them from going to police.[Burgeoning court backlog of more than 850,000 cases undercuts Trump immigration agenda]
A security guard closes a gate at an immigration detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Saturday. Some migrants seeking asylum in the United States have been sent back to Mexico to await their hearings in U.S. courts. A federal judge in San Francisco issued an injunction on April 8 that temporarily blocked the MPP program, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit stayed the injunction four days later.
“What happened to her and her daughters is absolutely heartbreaking, and it is an example of DHS ignoring policies that are supposed to protect vulnerable populations,” said U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar , who has been following the case. “The Migrant Protection Protocols program, like many other Trump administration policies, does not deter asylum seekers, and instead only promotes cruelty and, in some cases, outright human rights violations.
I believe the onslaught of people are from their hearing trump saying things like he was closing the border and the fact that he cut off aid to the countries they are from. That makes no sense at all,he made it even harder for them to stay? He doesn’t want any coming in,no asylum
“Protocols” are policies, not law. Policies can change.
Maybe they should go to sanctuary cities We all know the point of mass migration was to change the demographics of red and rural America voters Democrats should either admit this truth or choke on their own demands for open immigration Then voters won't feel as progressive
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These supposed asylum seekers are in violation of international law by not seeking asylum in the first country they enter, ie Mexico. smh
Good something needs to be done. We are dying as a nation. We are 20 trillion in debt. If we keep this up. In a few decades we won't have a nation. Then the Democrats will have Destroyed our country. Do they not see or even care. Trump2020
Keep them all in Mexico!
great ,people go there for vacation
Why don't we send all the Illegal Invaders to WAPO. Better yet why not send them all to JeffBezos
Mexico 🇲🇽 is a beautiful country with wonderful people...... asylum there would be awesome
I'm not surprised to hear that Trump is breaking the law...again and again.
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