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| US expands return of asylum seekers to Mexico to new ports of entry |
| 2019-03-13 |
| [AlAhram] The United States is expanding its program to send asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait out their U.S. court proceedings and so far has returned 240 people since starting the program in January, U.S. officials told news hounds on Tuesday. The officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the policy, which was rolled out at the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego earlier this year, has been expanded to the Calexico port, which is also in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on the U.S.-Mexico border. In addition, One official said border authorities had only started turning back people who crossed between ports this past week. He said that "a very low number" of people who crossed illegally have been returned so far, while the vast majority of those who were sent back presented themselves at legal ports of entry to claim asylum. The policy is the latest effort by the Trump administration to try to curb a sharp increase in the number of Central American families that are arriving at the border and claiming asylum. Administration officials say even though many of the asylum claims are ultimately denied, applicants end up living in the United States for years while their court cases are processed. But immigration advocates say that returning vulnerable President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , whose administration has worked to limit both legal and illegal immigration, said in an interview with the website Breitbart published on Tuesday that Mexican narco mobs should be considered terrorist organizations. He highlighted the danger of Mexican cities close to the U.S. border and said Mexico is "considered one of the most unsafe countries in the world." U.S. officials have previously argued that their policy of making asylum seekers wait in Mexico does not put them at any greater risk, and refer to the return policy as the "Migrant Protection Protocols." DHS officials said the U.S. government is working closely with Mexican authorities to clear the expansion plans. "We're not going to open a location if the Mexicans aren't ready and able to process and provide the humanitarian protections that they agreed to," one official said. But some Mexican officials have warned that the country's border cities would struggle to look after asylum seekers for long periods of time. DHS said the return policy does not apply to Mexican citizens, unaccompanied minors or people with serious medical conditions or disabilities but families with children are being returned. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Back during the Eisenhower administration, Ike had a problem with the left over Immigration weasels letting illegals across the border. Ike reassigned the weasels to the far North and sent the illegals to a port on the Yucatan Peninsula. At the time the it was a long haul back to the border and the natives of the Yucatan didn't like Mexicans to start with. Things settled down within a year. |
| Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 2019-03-13 13:24 |
| #1 One simple rule change is all that is needed: Applicants must submit their applications at the US embassy in their country of origin. If apprehended in the US without following this procedure, they are permanently ineligible to apply to immigrate to the US. If apprehended in the US after filing an application, they are permanently ineligible to immigrate to the US. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-13 09:29 |