Border Patrol agents expelling unauthorized immigrants to reduce virus risk

[Elderberry]

The Monitor by Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro -March 25, 2020

In an effort to minimize risks and exposure to U.S. Border Patrol agents and detainees in detention facilities, agents are immediately expelling people apprehended between ports of entry.

During a call with media members, U.S. Border Patrol officials said this change in operations is meant to reduce the exposure its agents and those held in detention centers have to COVID-19.

Officials said agents encountering people attempting to enter the country illegally, between ports of entry, will process them at a mobile processing unit out in the field, and immediately expel them from the country through the nearest port of entry.

The only exception would be for anyone who has a prior aggravated criminal offense, and is deemed to be a “threat to the U.S. and or Mexico,” the officials said. Those people will be arrested, and taken in to be processed at a detention center.

More: https://www.themonitor.com/2020/03/25/border-patrol-agents-expelling-unauthorized-immigrants-reduce-virus-risk-2/

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
"Officials said agents encountering people attempting to enter the country illegally, between ports of entry, will process them at a mobile processing unit out in the field, and immediately expel them from the country through the nearest port of entry."

Ahem...
Why isn't this the standard policy ALL of the time...?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Am waiting for some renegade federal judge to declare this is unlawful - that we MUST allow the people safe passage here to plead their case for amnesty.