The Briefing Room
General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: libertybele on November 27, 2019, 06:56:53 pm
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As Trump administration confronts migrant crisis, detention centers are clearing out
DONNA, Texas -- As the migrant crisis at the southern border hit its peak over the summer, media outlets were filled with stories of overcrowded detention centers, adults and children living in squalid conditions, and overworked and exhausted border agents. But now, the situation on the ground has changed significantly..........
Amid a series of sweeping actions from the Trump administration -- including the expansion of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) that return migrants to Mexico to await their immigration hearings, increased cooperation with countries south of the border like Guatemala, and new border wall -- apprehensions have declined dramatically by more than 70 percent since May............
“The number of people we were holding here in the summer was 9,000, and if you look through the entire sector now we only have 1,000 people in custody, so it shows how numbers have steadily declined, primarily because of the assistance we've received from Mexico, but also initiatives like MPP ... that have reduced the flow,†he said. In Donna, Karisch said roughly 400 people in custody are spread across three facilities..............
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-migrant-detention-centers (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-migrant-detention-centers)
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This is good news.