The program sends certain migrants who ask for asylum at the southern border back to Mexico while they wait for their immigration court cases to be called.
Karen, who is from Honduras, is staying at a Tijuana shelter with her three children. She requested asylum in the U.S. and told border officials she was afraid to be in Mexico, but was sent back to Tijuana without seeing an asylum officer.
Others returned under the program said that they had not been able to express their fear to Border Patrol officials during processing because of the way officials conducted their intake interviews. Karen, a 28-year-old woman from Honduras who came with her three children, similarly told Border Patrol that she was afraid of being in Mexico. She had fled her country because of domestic violence and said she was afraid that the man who had abused her would find her in Mexico. He’d already been able to find her when she tried to change cities within her country, and she’d heard that he again knew her whereabouts.
Department of Homeland Security officials said that a question at the end of the Border Patrol interviews asking if the asylum seeker has anything else he or she would like to say should serve as an opportunity for people to discuss any safety concerns they might have. “Everyone’s trained to take very seriously our commitments under international treaties,” said a senior DHS official speaking on background. “We will never send someone back to a country where it’s more likely than not that they will be harmed or tortured.”
Brasil Últimas Notícias, Brasil Manchetes
Similar News:Você também pode ler notícias semelhantes a esta que coletamos de outras fontes de notícias.
Border patrol announces 4th in-custody death of migrant since DecemberImmigration officials say a Mexican migrant died after his arrest near an urban border crossing. He died at an El Paso hospital after receiving treatment for flu-like symptoms and liver and kidney failure.
Consulte Mais informação »
Border Patrol says detention centers are full, starts releasing apprehended migrantsThe Border Patrol released 50 recently apprehended migrants, the first of several hundred border-crossers who officials say will soon be freed because there is no room to hold them. More from mollyhf and mollymotoole:
Consulte Mais informação »
Trump administration accused of ignoring U.N. human rights expert's request to visit U.S.-Mexico borderThe Trump administration's apparent dismissal of human rights monitors 'puts the United States squarely in the company of some of the worst human rights abusers around the world.'
Consulte Mais informação »
Investigators are scrambling to solve a mystery just miles from the US-Mexico borderMasked gunmen barged onto a bus in northern Mexico, carrying a list of names. They left without firing a single shot, taking at least 19 passengers with them as they sped away from the scene. And so far, they seem to have vanished without a trace.
Consulte Mais informação »
More lawyers, reporter questioned at border by U.S. border agentsUPDATE: At least 1 journalist and 4 American immigration attorneys have been stopped and questioned at border stations in Arizona and Texas in recent months, according to their interviews with nbcnews.
Consulte Mais informação »
Pentagon sends Congress list of projects that could be cut to pay for Trump's border wallThe Pentagon has sent Congress a list of projects that could be impacted by President Donald Trump's decision to declare a national emergency and repurpose military construction funds to pay for his sought-after border wall with Mexico.
Consulte Mais informação »