Hundreds of migrants have been sent back to Mexico as part of experimental program that is subject to court action.
The experimental U.S. policy requires migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed. Homeland Security officials said the measure will soon expand to multiple border cities and apply to migrant families. EL PASO — While a federal appeals court weighs the Trump administration’s policy of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico to await court hearings in the United States, the government appears to be ignoring its own protocols for who it should send back across the border.
The 31-year-old woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she fears for her safety, said the family fled Honduras because criminals who had killed two of her husband’s cousins threatened to kill her family to keep them from going to police.[Burgeoning court backlog of more than 850,000 cases undercuts Trump immigration agenda]
A security guard closes a gate at an immigration detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Saturday. Some migrants seeking asylum in the United States have been sent back to Mexico to await their hearings in U.S. courts. A federal judge in San Francisco issued an injunction on April 8 that temporarily blocked the MPP program, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit stayed the injunction four days later.
“What happened to her and her daughters is absolutely heartbreaking, and it is an example of DHS ignoring policies that are supposed to protect vulnerable populations,” said U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar , who has been following the case. “The Migrant Protection Protocols program, like many other Trump administration policies, does not deter asylum seekers, and instead only promotes cruelty and, in some cases, outright human rights violations.
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