Posted on 04/09/2020 1:10:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn’t let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter fled Honduras and needed asylum, pointing to the coronavirus. It was just days after the Trump administration quietly empowered itself to shut down the nation’s asylum system.
“The agent told us about the virus and that we couldn’t go further, but she didn’t let us speak or anything,” said Reyes, 35, who was shuttled on March 24 to Reynosa, Mexico, a violent border city.
The Trump administration is relying on a seldom-used public health law to set aside decades-old national and international immigration laws. People seeking refuge in the U.S. are whisked to the nearest border crossing and returned to Mexico without a chance to apply for asylum.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday that nearly 10,000 Mexicans and Central Americans have been “expelled” to Mexico under the new rules, which took effect March 21. Mark Morgan, the agency’s acting commissioner, said the changes were “not about immigration.”
“What’s happening right now is a public health crisis driven by a global pandemic, which has resulted in a national emergency declared by this president to protect the health and safety of every American in this country,” he told reporters.
Mexico is again providing critical support for the immigration shift. It’s accepting not only Mexicans, but people from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras who accounted for well over half of all U.S. border arrests last year.
The Trump administration has offered little detail on the rules that have yet to be challenged in court. They got little attention when announced March 20, the same day Trump announced the southern border was closed to nonessential travel.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Add three more zeroes to that number, and you’ve got a good start.
To Ms. Reyes.....TFB
Now where did I put that tiny violin that I keep around for these instances? Can’t seem to find it, but I just moved to a new house. Must look for a box marked “non-essentials”.
Millions to go.
Exactly what I was going to say.
This needs to be made permanent.
The MSM is DANGEROUS.
The choice was what I posted, or “There goes 10,000 democrat voters.”
Here is one good thing coming from Dr. Doom having a big roll on stage.
I don’t expect that’s what he’d want though.
Anecdotal, but the El Rancho (a large grocery store chain that caters to Hispanic food in Texas) near us has a help wanted sign on the door -—— IN ENGLISH. They’ve even removed the requirement to speak Spanish. I asked the store manager about it. He said there are not enough applicants.
He didn’t come out and say it but the impression I got is that a significant percentage of illegals are going home.
The trigger words and bias in just the first paragraph make the rest of what is obviously a sob and anti Trump story unworth reading.
Once a great source for news, now
Associated Press...ignore.
That’s 10K less on both the census and voter rolls.
“The trigger words and bias in just the first paragraph make the rest of what is obviously a sob and anti Trump story unworth reading.”
I made it to “needed asylum” and stopped reading.
Sorry, non citizens have zero RIGHT to enter our country. None, nada, none at all.
We have laws and it is our responsibility to follow them outsiders have no right to assume we will wave them so they can enter.
That was Obama’s fantasy.
So they deserve a medal for dealing with the mess they helped create?
That’ll do for a start.
WINNING? I’m sorry, but how is this 35 year old woman a refugee exactly?
WINNING!!!!!!!!!!
I can't spare this man, he fights!
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