webfact Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Migrants being held in Texas enclosure as surge overwhelms El Paso By Jose Luis Gonzalez FILE PHOTO: Central American migrants are seen inside an enclosure where they are being held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States illegally and turning themselves in to request asylum, in El Paso, Texas, March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants are being held in a chain-link enclosure in El Paso, Texas, as the number of families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the city overwhelms U.S. Border Patrol facilities, the agency said on Thursday. The enclosure holds migrants crossing the border illegally in metropolitan El Paso as they wait to be processed at a nearby Border Patrol station, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ramiro Cordero said by phone. How long they remain in the enclosure, set up late last month below the city's Paso del Norte International Bridge to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, depends on how many migrants cross the border, he said. "It could be a couple of hours, it could be more than that, it could be overnight, I can't tell you, it's just too many people for me to tell you an exact time or time frame," Cordero said. He said migrants are now crossing at an average of 570 people per day in the area, the highest rate in more than a decade, according to the Border Patrol. Migrants at the enclosure are given thermal blankets and can get shelter, food, water and a medical evaluation, officials said. A Reuters photographer saw children sleeping outside in the enclosed area on Sunday night, when the low was around 47 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius). "This is an inhumane and inexcusable way to treat people," Taylor Levy, legal coordinator for El Paso migrant shelter Annunciation House, said by phone as she visited the enclosure on Thursday night. She said migrants inside told her they had been there for between one and four days. She said she saw toddlers sleeping on the dirt and gravel beneath the bridge. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told an El Paso news briefing on Wednesday the agency planned to set up temporary buildings to house migrant families, before a planned $192 million processing facility is built. Those buildings have yet to be put up, according to Cordero. More than 1,000 migrants were arrested in the El Paso sector on Monday, bringing the total number in CBP custody - including the enclosure - to almost 3,500 on Wednesday. The migrants are in facilities built for far fewer people and designed for single adults who once formed the bulk of arrests, McAleenan said. Families and children now form the majority of apprehensions across the Southwest border, with a record 55,000 family units apprehended or encountered in March, McAleenan said. El Paso migrant shelters are receiving around 700 people a day from immigration authorities, compared with a previous high of 2,000 a week in late 2018, said Dylan Corbett, director of El Paso's Hope Border Institute which advocates for migrant rights. "It’s not sustainable right now, that’s why everyone is really nervous, because this just can’t last,” Corbett said by phone. (Reporting by Jose Luis Gonzalez in El Paso, Texas; Additional reporting and writing by Andrew Hay in New Mexico; Editing by Julie Marquis and G Crosse) -- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lucius verus Posted March 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2019 Trump is right about some things but a wall won't work. The Mexicans will dig tunnels, put custom built ladders over it and even oxy cut their way through. Americans will never get a pay rise while there is a steady flood of illegals over the border. Its that simple. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cereal Posted March 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2019 They are illegal. Do the bleeding heart liberals not get that? They are illegal. If they followed the law, they wouldn't be locked up like animals. 100% zero sympathy here. I'm an immigrant. A Canadian living in Laos without hassle. Why? I follow the law! 10 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alex8912 Posted March 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2019 Why doesn’t Taylor Levy offer to house a dozen or so at her house since this current place is so bad? I know a couple of hard working Brazilians near where I live in the states for six months of the year. They have been trying to get legal short term visas for some relatives for a very long time. They are trying to do everything by law. They have not been successful for quite some time now. They don’t understand how just busting in at the southern border can often get you “in” by waiting just a few days. We have to send the message out loud and strong that illegal immigration will not be tolerated. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post brenton Posted March 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2019 Close the border to all traffic.Mexico has done nothing but inform us that its our problem.The other countries such as honduras,El salvador and Guatemala do nothing but hold out the begging bowl 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peasandmash Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 in some countries these folks would be taken on a short one-way trip where they would die of sudden lead poisoning. In America, they'll be given housing, food, health care, representation in domestic politics, preferential treatment for employment, and accolades from prominent social figures. America with all it's faults and all the rhetoric about the inequality of the free market system it employees remains the is the greatest country in the world, the envy of all other nations and the preferred home to nearly all the people the world. God bless America and God bless President Donald Trump. I'd write more but I need to deposit my social security check, my dividend payments from the securities I hold in the New York Stock Exchange, and my pension check. Wooo Hooo! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post from the home of CC Posted March 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2019 I guess folks are figuring they better get over now since Trump now has a chance for another term, the figurative wall could be even higher soon. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVENKEEL Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 This is insane. Let's forget about Trump and deal with this "National Emergency" JHC this is getting ridiculous. These people are being released into the USA just because they say the magic word...…"Asylum" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post howbri Posted March 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2019 Close the border Donald. Close the dang border and build the wall 50 feet high to keep out the invasion. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven100 Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 8 minutes ago, howbri said: Close the border Donald. Close the dang border and build the wall 50 feet high to keep out the invasion. god damn invasion .... we gotta keep em out !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckThai Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Wow. One way or another, it looks like someone is making sure the States is distracted and paying. Be it a wall and border security, or social benefits and stressing domestic resources (schools, hospitals, police, immigration, etc). An interesting method of attack (and money maker for the connected). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tug Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 They are applying for asylum what they are doing is leagle we need to change the law that means Donald has to negotiate with the dems as he has proven time and time again that is something he doesent know how to do this crises is manufactured by Donald 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
from the home of CC Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) Whatever the cause I hope it's sorted soon because once over the border some of them are taking a look around and then heading to Canada. We had a whack of em out west a winter ago that lost fingers and toes to frostbite, I think they got to stay, something to do with the appendage lost on foreign property law. Luckily though, most head to Quebec. Edited March 29, 2019 by from the home of CC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryingdick Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Nothing to see here everything is A-okay it seems just like the dems said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Treat them humanely. What's the problem with that? Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusarelus Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 1 hour ago, steven100 said: god damn invasion .... we gotta keep em out !!! America needs a marketing guy to convince them of the virtues of Latin America. Nice climate, good health care, inexpensive, safe living environment. Why would anyone want to leave? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khaeng Mak Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 33 minutes ago, Jingthing said: Treat them humanely. What's the problem with that? Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Oh the irony. JT (an American) started a thread on alternative retirement destinations in Latin America and here we have tens of thousand of Latinos trying to illegally retire in America. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 America needs a marketing guy to convince them of the virtues of Latin America. Nice climate, good health care, inexpensive, safe living environment. Why would anyone want to leave? I don't find that funny. Obviously many of the people are literally fleeing for their lives. Please don't put all of Latin America in the same bag. There are advanced nations like Chile and also basket cases like Honduras. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 god damn invasion .... we gotta keep em out !!!Not an invasion. Invasion is a military attack. This isn't that. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Nothing to see here everything is A-okay it seems just like the dems said.Said nobody actually. Sent from my Lenovo A7020a48 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post usviphotography Posted March 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2019 What Trump needs to do is build tent city detention centers. You do that, the problem ends almost immediately. That is essentially the policy Australia implemented in successfully ending the boat people problem. You detain everyone in a humane but uncomfortable and thoroughly unpleasant detention center and keep them there till their "asylum" hearing and then you kick them out. Once the invaders know the gig is up, they stop coming, as we saw in Australia. But to get things rolling Trump really needs to sort out the problems in his own administration. Kristjen Nielsen NEEDS to be replaced, stat. She is disloyal, incompetent, and serves the Globalists rather than her President. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryingdick Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 21 minutes ago, marcusarelus said: America needs a marketing guy to convince them of the virtues of Latin America. Nice climate, good health care, inexpensive, safe living environment. Why would anyone want to leave? Yeah our own Thaivisa has boots on the ground over there. He lasted what a week in Colombia? lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryingdick Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, usviphotography said: What Trump needs to do is build tent city detention centers. You do that, the problem ends almost immediately. That is essentially the policy Australia implemented in successfully ending the boat people problem. You detain everyone in a humane but uncomfortable and thoroughly unpleasant detention center and keep them there till their "asylum" hearing and then you kick them out. Once the invaders know the gig is up, they stop coming, as we saw in Australia. But to get things rolling Trump really needs to sort out the problems in his own administration. Kristjen Nielsen NEEDS to be replaced, stat. She is disloyal, incompetent, and serves the Globalists rather than her President. A sheriff in Arizona already does it to US citizens. Our troops in the in places like Iraq live in the same conditions. Edited March 29, 2019 by Cryingdick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryingdick Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 The dems have this problem solved easily. It's a 6 step plan. 1. Completely open the border 2. Abolish ICE 3. Make picture ID unnecessary when voting 4. Nobody is allowed to ask if you are a citizen when voting 5. Lower the voting age to 16 although without pic ID being a requirement this is somewhat unenforceable 6. Get rid of the electoral college Bonus points for wanting to add extra judges to the SCOTUS Doesn't sound insane at all does it? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 16 minutes ago, Khaeng Mak said: Oh the irony. JT (an American) started a thread on alternative retirement destinations in Latin America and here we have tens of thousand of Latinos trying to illegally retire in America. Not the same sort of migration, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, Cryingdick said: The dems have this problem solved easily. It's a 6 step plan. 1. Completely open the border 2. Abolish ICE 3. Make picture ID unnecessary when voting 4. Nobody is allowed to ask if you are a citizen when voting 5. Lower the voting age to 16 although without pic ID being a requirement this is somewhat unenforceable 6. Get rid of the electoral college Bonus points for wanting to add extra judges to the SCOTUS Doesn't sound insane at all does it? Nobody wants to completely open the border. Expanding voting of citizens and fighting racist voter suppression? Absolutely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 10 minutes ago, Cryingdick said: Yeah our own Thaivisa has boots on the ground over there. He lasted what a week in Colombia? lol No such person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryingdick Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Jingthing said: Nobody wants to completely open the border. Expanding voting of citizens and fighting racist voter suppression? Absolutely! Citizens being the keyword. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryingdick Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Just now, Jingthing said: No such person. Captainjack wasn't posting from Colombia? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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