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By: Erin Sheridan July 18, 2019July 18, 2019
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“‘We’ve been waiting 40, 50 minutes for a su “‘We’ve been waiting 40, 50 minutes for a supervisor,’ he said. ‘He’s hiding in that room down there because he doesn’t even want to come down here and talk to the head of the Hispanic Caucus, much less give a damn about the mothers here with three babies who have every legal right to be in this country.’”
“D’Cruz later confirmed that the Salvadoran fa “D’Cruz later confirmed that the Salvadoran family had been paroled to family sponsors in the United States. As of press time, she was still waiting to hear from the three other families, who were taken into the checkpoint for processing. ‘I don’t trust CBP, so we’ll see what happens,’ she said.”
“The group waited an hour for a supervisor to sh “The group waited an hour for a supervisor to show up. Port Director Tater Ortiz, who D’Cruz said she hasn’t been able to contact in recent weeks, showed up no less than three minutes after U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, began pressuring officials.”
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“This is a mess. The only way to undo the mess i “This is a mess. The only way to undo the mess is to do each single thing over and over again until we make a dent. And really, we have to pull out all the stops. We’re getting hit with everything in the government’s arsenal. We’re such few lawyers.” Link in bio.
“They’ve placed us in a position where we have “They’ve placed us in a position where we have to be strategic about who we present at the bridge and when we call the media to put pressure on CBP. Why is it that my patient with ovarian cancer gets to cross, but my patient with stomach cancer can’t? It’s heart-wrenching.”
“It’s cases like that where someone would have “It’s cases like that where someone would have died and it would have made the news and all of these things would be happening. We get to mitigate that on the spot because we have the infrastructure right here.”
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