Parents sending migrant children alone across border into South Texas
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Feb 23, 2023 / 05:57 PM CST
Updated: Feb 23, 2023 / 05:57 PM CST
Human rights group says CBP requires all asylum-seekers, including children, to have scheduled interviews via the CBP One app
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Several asylum-seeking families who are waiting in northern Mexican border towns have begun sending their children alone across international bridges into South Texas, and might not see their children again for months or even years, human rights groups told Border Report on Thursday.
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The children are crossing unaccompanied into McAllen and Brownsville, Texas, after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers last week began enforcing a rule that requires all asylum-seekers to have scheduled interviews via the CBP One app, the nonprofit Lawyers for Good Government told Border Report.
Priscilla Orta, a supervising attorney with Lawyers for Good Government, said the children are not being allowed to cross and attend the asylum interviews with their parents, leaving them with the “difficult decisions” of whether to send the children alone into the United States or cross without them and leaving them behind.
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/parents-sending-migrant-children-alone-across-border-into-south-texas/
