Border Officials Preparing to Evict Immigrant Encampments Near Texas Ports of Entry

[rangerrebew]

Border Officials Preparing to Evict Immigrant Encampments Near Texas Ports of Entry

The plans come on the same day that the Trump administration claims power to deny asylum to those entering U.S. illegally.


By Robert Moore

November 8, 2018


Hours after the Trump administration invoked national security powers to change existing rules to deny asylum to anyone entering this country illegally, U.S. immigrant rights advocates in El Paso learned that immigration officials were going to start evicting migrants encamped on international bridges awaiting to legally apply for asylum.


U.S. and Mexican authorities have reached an agreement to remove hundreds of asylum seekers, including children, from international bridges linking El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union told Texas Monthly Thursday night. Mexican officials are still working to identify shelter space for the migrants as they wait for permission to make their asylum claim in the United States.


More than 450 would-be asylum seekers—mostly from Central America—are currently camped out on the Mexican side of three bridges linking the two cities, said Shaw Drake, an attorney for the ACLU’s Border Rights Center in El Paso. Overnight temperatures are expected to dip to near freezing early next week. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials reached an agreement with Mexican government officials and non-governmental agencies at a meeting on Thursday to begin removing the asylum seekers beginning next week, said Cynthia Pompa, the Border Rights Center office manager who has been in contact with the Mexican groups.
 

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[sneakypete]

No need to remove them. Get a couple of really big fans and some tear gas,and they will remove themselves.

[ConstitutionRose]

How long before someone takes this to court?

[XenaLee]

Border Officials Preparing to Evict Immigrant Encampments Near Texas Ports of Entry

The plans come on the same day that the Trump administration claims power to deny asylum to those entering U.S. illegally.


By Robert Moore

November 8, 2018


Hours after the Trump administration invoked national security powers to change existing rules to deny asylum to anyone entering this country illegally, U.S. immigrant rights advocates in El Paso learned that immigration officials were going to start evicting migrants encamped on international bridges awaiting to legally apply for asylum.


U.S. and Mexican authorities have reached an agreement to remove hundreds of asylum seekers, including children, from international bridges linking El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union told Texas Monthly Thursday night. Mexican officials are still working to identify shelter space for the migrants as they wait for permission to make their asylum claim in the United States.


More than 450 would-be asylum seekers—mostly from Central America—are currently camped out on the Mexican side of three bridges linking the two cities, said Shaw Drake, an attorney for the ACLU’s Border Rights Center in El Paso. Overnight temperatures are expected to dip to near freezing early next week. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials reached an agreement with Mexican government officials and non-governmental agencies at a meeting on Thursday to begin removing the asylum seekers beginning next week, said Cynthia Pompa, the Border Rights Center office manager who has been in contact with the Mexican groups.
 

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/tr...mpression=true

How nice of the Mexican officials to assist the "asylum seekers". 

Ironic, when you consider... if the Mexican officials were not so corrupt, themselves, those "asylum seekers" could just as well stay in Mexico.

[Fishrrman]

ALL border crossing bridges with Mexico should be like this one: