Posted on 03/06/2019 6:20:00 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press that reveal some inner workings of a top government priority to address the burgeoning number of Central Americans arriving in the country.
The Trump administration launched the program in late January in what marks a potentially seismic shift on how the U.S. handles the cases of immigrants seeking asylum and fleeing persecution in their homeland. The program initially applied only to those who turned themselves in at official border crossings, but a memo from a division chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector says it expanded Friday to include people who cross the border illegally.
The guidance includes instruction about various groups of immigrants who are not to be sent back to Mexico and instead go through the traditional asylum process in the U.S. immigration court system. They include pregnant women, LGBT migrants and people suffering medical issues. Authorities said previously that Mexican asylum seekers are excluded, as are children traveling alone.
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The instructions say Mexican officials insist that no more than 20 asylum seekers are returned each day from San Diego to Tijuana, Mexico, on Monday through Saturday, underscoring challenges that the U.S. faces in trying to quickly ramp up one of its top border enforcement priorities and most significant changes to the U.S. immigration system of Donald Trump's presidency. Authorities said Tuesday that more than 76,000 were stopped or apprehended at the Mexican border in February, more than double the same period last year.
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We welcome the Arabic speaking illegals to come on through?
Immigration advocates call on legislators to end ICE county jail contracts
Why is our border open? I swore Trump was going to close it. Where are the thousands of troops with barbed wire and tented holding areas we heard about before the mid terms? Where is the money Trump said he could move without the declaration of emergency? Does anybody know what is going on? This is National Suicide
May answer some of your very pertinent questions. Trump needs to step up to the plate asap.
yes and while this crap is going on the US is still getting jihadis to populate no go zones freshly built with our tax dollars. What the hell is going on?
Cynical answer is those were words and props for votes.
what is going on is, federal courts trying to legislate from the bench are blocking every move, ACLU and those that profit off human trafficking are suing from every direction on behalf of the foreign nationals they profit off of, with all lawsuits designed to drag out to the Supremes, Democrats have gone bat-hanging in the belfry crazy, and, in spite of all this, work is moving forward as it can be accomplished, with, obviously at least 76,000 apprehensions last month by a Border Patrol that are dodging disease and bullets while working their butts off with not even so much as a hat-tip from the Dems. The Border Patrol is not giving up and neither is Trump. Clearer now?
nope. Not one injunction. Why the delay?
Trump was supposed to fix this. It's actually getting WORSE. It's not all his fault, but so far, he has FAILED. His advisors are stupid backstabbers, and his lack of time on our Conservative side (to establish some semblance of a working knowledge base of all the problems and solutions needed) are obstacles which, currently, remain insurmountable.
All the "trust the plan" BULLSHIT better be right. There still is time. The only thing that is going to fix this is RETROACTIVE REVOCATION of citizenship. Going back to the date of 9/11/01 would work to tie into a previous national emergency. Anything short of that will keep the country on its current, fatal course
.. “answer is those were words and props for votes.” I’m beginning to think you are right and it is very disconcerting.
if you knew who Judge Sabraw was, you wouldn’t say what you just did, my new FRiend.
She’s handling one of the 45, wait, 46 lawsuits that Calif alone has filed against the admin (they lost the DACA one, the environmental laws waiver one, the one to block building of prototypes in San Diego; still working on the detention thing).
Sabraw is responsible for the current catch and release fiasco, and by imposing time limits under Flores, despite the avalanche of illegals hitting the border each night, has handicapped DNA testing to determine child/parent relationship. Her rulings likely encouraged more child endangerment, as adults learned they get out of detention in 20 days or less if they have a kid on their hip.Sabraw effectively countering the admin’s zero tolerance policy.
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