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By: Erin Sheridan January 13, 2020February 16, 2020
Articles, U.S./Mexico Border

Photos: Witness at the Border, January Rally

On Sunday, activists from over 30 states joined the Texas branches of the ACLU and the Children’s Defense Fund to demand an end to the U.S. Department of Justice’s tent court system, as well as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, ‘Remain in Mexico’ program).

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Deportees Flown Out Of Brownsville, Texas Airport. Deportees Flown Out Of Brownsville, Texas Airport. Feb. 14, 2020. Photos by @denisecatheyphoto for @brownsvilleherald.
CBP Returns Four Disabled Children To Mexico In Vi CBP Returns Four Disabled Children To Mexico In Violation Of MPP's 'Vulnerability Exception'
Attorney Charlene D’Cruz in her office at the Re Attorney Charlene D’Cruz in her office at the Resource Center in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico on Feb. 3, 2020. She spent the morning trying to parole a blind asylum seeker from Cuba who was returned to Mexico by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in violation of a ‘vulnerability exception’ for asylum seekers with known mental and physical health issues included in the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, ‘Remain in Mexico’ program). Yodalys, 52, has toxoplasmosis and epilepsy. She was paroled into the U.S. later that evening after five prior attempts to do so.
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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.”
“Within about 10 days of the date we started, as “Within about 10 days of the date we started, asylum seekers were shoved past the international line, into Mexico. It has been about a year and a half and nobody can get past.” New story on website.
“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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