U.S. shuts border to stop migrant rush from Mexico

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | March 1st, 2020 | Unattributed

[Mariner]

After an appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, a stand off at the US Mexico border.

U.S. authorities said they closed the busy Ciudad Juarez-El Paso border bridge after more than a hundred mostly Cuban migrants tried to cross in response to the court ruling.

Put in place just a year ago, the program - known as the Migrant Protection Protocols or MPP - has already forced nearly 60,000 people to be sent back to Mexico as they wait for hearings in immigration courts.

There, they are vulnerable to kidnapping, rape, robbery and other crimes while living in sometimes unsanitary conditions.

But the Trump administration went to the courts to request a pause in the temporary block, which was was granted, putting the policy back into effect as the administration appeals to the Supreme Court.

The policy suspension and then quick reversal caused whiplash among those who had hoped to escape Mexico.

[Mariner]

Oh, how grand it would be to foist upon these judges that which they force upon us.

[preacher]

L8r

[Rastus]

CUBAN migrants trying to escape MEXICO. Which, by the way, they thought was a perfectly fine country to pass through.

[Bernard]

How do we know that these border crossers don’t have coronavirus? Maybe we could them all sneeze on the judge to make sure

[Ciaphas Cain]

There, they are vulnerable to kidnapping, rape, robbery and other crimes while living in sometimes unsanitary conditions.

I don't care.

If personal safety is that big a concern, they should have stayed home.

They can fix their own problems. We have enough of our own to tend to.

[867V309]

They can fix their own problems. We have enough of our own to tend to.

exactly

let them cr@p on the streets of frisco, in front of pelosi's estate.

[sgt_lau]

Betcha not one of these law-breakers will contribute in any way to society. They bring their problems with them. Stay. In. Mexico.

[RArtfulogerDodger]

Reuters is a filthy leftist rag. Read them at your own risk.

[joma89]

Criminal judges...again.

JoMa

[BOBWADE]

The President should just close the US Mexico border to all migrants until this case is resolved. SCOTUS previously ruled has the authority to ban immigration by country of origin. Close the border completely until his policy is upheld. This is necessary to control the risk of the coronavirus pandemic and not just about preventing the freeloaders.

[nikos1121]

Can someone anyone here please tell me why Trump has to continually go to the supreme court to reverse these lower court rulings?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Escape Mexico? American tourists spend millions of dollars each year trying to get into Mexico. What the ….?

[billyboy15]

The answer is as you say to “close the border completely”, ALL of our borders and allow NO ONE entry (even our own citizens returning from abroad) before they are tested or the virus and quarantined or sent home if it is found.

This will pass, of course but until then it must be Americans here in America first and the rest of the world second.

[billyboy15]

Is there any other way? This is our system and until it is changed we must fight using the weapons we have available.

[the_daug]

They care about Cubans now they applauded the deportation Illian Gonzalas by Janet Reno.

[KarlInOhio]

Why are Cubans fleeing the best education and health care in the world? According to the Sandersnistas we should be fleeing to Cuba.

I do get a kick out of the fact that Obama ended the special handling Cubans had for decades.

[Moonman62]

CUBAN migrants trying to escape MEXICO. Which, by the way, they thought was a perfectly fine country to pass through.

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Exactly.

And Reuters is an enemy of America.

[sauropod]

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[RubinBoomer]

There, they are vulnerable to kidnapping, rape, robbery and other crimes

So we are not, here.

[jospehm20]

Yep.