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For the first time, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is sending asylum seekers back to Nogales, Sonora, to wait for their cases to proceed through the U.S. asylum system. It’s part of the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the “Remain In Mexico” program.
On Thursday morning, the first group of 18 asylum seekers were sent back to Nogales, said CBP spokeswoman Meredith Mingledorff. She could not say how many would be sent back going forward.
“As people come through and are determined eligible for that program, that’s what will determine whether or not they are sent back,” she said.
Late last year, CBP announced asylum seekers apprehended in the Tucson Sector, which includes much of Arizona’s border with Mexico, would be sent back to wait in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Now, asylum seekers will also be sent to Mexico through the Nogales Port of Entry — the seventh port of entry to be included in the program, and the first in Arizona — according to a Department of Homeland Security news release.
The agency decided to expand the program because it believes migrants were crossing the border into Arizona to avoid being sent back to Mexico, Mingledorff said.
“So it was a factor in migration patterns. And they wanted to take that away and say, ‘OK, that’s not going to be an option here anymore. If you come here and you’re eligible, then you will be returned to Mexico,” she said.
More than 56,000 people have been sent back to border cities in Mexico since January 2019, through ports in and around San Diego, Calexico, El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville, and Eagle Pass, according to the DHS release. The agency called the “Remain In Mexico” program “a cornerstone” of its efforts to address an overburdened immigration system.
“MPP has been an extremely effective tool as the United States, under the leadership of President Trump, continues to address the ongoing humanitarian and security crisis at the border,” acting Secretary Chad Wolf was quoted as saying.
Migrant advocates, however, have said that the program puts vulnerable asylum seekers into dangerous situations in Mexico.
“The three major concerns are health, shelter and access to the support they need to continue their cases,” said Joanna Williams, education and advocacy director with the Kino Border Initiative, which works with migrants and asylum seekers on both sides of the border in Nogales. “It’s less than freezing every night here in Nogales. It’s particularly troubling as far as the humanitarian situation folks will be in, because they very well could be sleeping outside in below-freezing temperatures.”
Williams said there is a lack of planning and coordination in Nogales to provide asylum seekers with shelter and other resources they need as they wait for their court dates. And there are already thousands of people in Nogales waiting to ask for asylum at the port of entry. The wait for most is at least four months right now, Williams said.
“We’re not even sure where people are going to sleep at night,” she said. “And unfortunately, what we’ve seen in other border cities is that the longer MPP is around — the more many dozens and hundreds of people are returned — the more chaotic, dangerous and problematic the situation becomes.”
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has been in political exile since NBC fired her last year.
That all just changed.
And Megyn Kelly went public with this jaw-dropping admission about Brett Kavanaugh.
Megyn Kelly began to rest on thin ice at NBC when she began to question the accusations Christine Blasey Ford lobbed at Brett Kavanaugh about an alleged attempted sexual assault at a high school party.
Kelly expressed skepticism to the truthfulness of Blasey Ford’s claims.
But Kelly just went one step further and accused Blasey Ford of being part of a Democrat conspiracy to bring down Kavanaugh.
Kelly made her shocking comments in reference to the CIA spy filing a whistleblower complaint against President Trump over a July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian President.
The former Fox News anchor noticed some big time tells that the CIA so-called “whistleblower” was running the same partisan playbook as Christine Blasey Ford.
“So Schiff coordinated w/whistle-blower from the start. And Blasey-Ford ran to Democrat partisan lawyers/reps in Kavanaugh. And those who said, maybe politics is at play, get dismissed as Trump sycophants. Come on,” Kelly wrote.
In the Blasey Ford case, she initially sent her false claims of attempted sexual assault to Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Then Blasey Ford hired notoriously partisan Democrat lawyers.
That was exactly the script the CIA spy followed with their supposed “whistleblower” complaint.
In a subsequent social media post, Kelly went even further, questioning if the CIA spy was even truly a whistleblower.
“’Whistleblower’ is the label put out by Schiff (who – despite his false denial – had advance notice this was coming) & co to the press. Decide for yourself whether the label applies here,” Kelly wrote when she shared an article by left-wing journalist Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone that questioned if the CIA spy deserved the label.
Taibbi noted this so-called “whistleblower” was treated like a hero whereas past whistleblowers that exposed illegal government spying and other abuses faced jail time, financial ruin and were forced to flee the country and live their lives on the run.
“Americans who’ve blown the whistle over serious offenses by the federal government either spend the rest of their lives overseas, like Edward Snowden, end up in jail, like Chelsea Manning, get arrested and ruined financially, like former NSA official Thomas Drake, have their homes raided by FBI like disabled NSA vet William Binney, or get charged with espionage like ex-CIA exposer-of-torture John Kiriakou. It’s an insult to all of these people, and the suffering they’ve weathered, to frame the ballcarrier in the Beltway’s latest partisan power contest as a whistleblower,” Taibbi wrote.
Taibbi contends – as do many Trump supporters – that this fictitious Ukraine scandal is just an extension of past attempts to drive Donald Trump from office.
And Megyn Kelly is also picking up some similarities to previous Democrat character assassination operations.
Great American Daily will keep you up to date on any new developments in the Democrats’ impeachment coup against President Trump.