By Robert Moore
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A pregnant Mexican woman suffering complications was told by immigration officers that they couldn’t process her family’s asylum claim at the U.S. border on Saturday before a U.S. senator intervened to persuade the officers to take the woman to a Texas hospital.
While visiting a migrant shelter Saturday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) grew concerned about a woman who was 38 weeks pregnant and suffering from preeclampsia and other complications. The senator and his staff decided to take the woman, her husband and 3-year-old son to a port of entry to make their asylum claim.
At the Paso del Norte Bridge linking Juárez and El Paso, the family approached two Customs and Border Protection officers, presented their identification and said they wanted to request asylum. They then heard the words that tens of thousands of asylum seekers have been told for more than a year at the U.S.-Mexico border: “We’re full,” a CBP officer told them.
Wyden, who had followed behind the family along with an entourage of staff members and friends from Oregon, then stepped forward and identified himself. He told the officers that Mexicans are exempt from the “metering” program CBP has used to strictly control the number of people allowed to request asylum at ports of entry. He also told the officers the woman was late term in her pregnancy and suffering complications.
The officers called a supervisor, who arrived minutes later, and allowed the family to go to the port of entry to make their asylum claim.
Wyden was clearly shaken by his two-day visit to the border, which included a tour of CBP holding cells and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. At the Juárez shelter, he met a 3-year-old boy who had stopped speaking after being held with his father by the U.S. Border Patrol and then sent back to Mexico.
Washington Post
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A pregnant Mexican woman suffering complications was told by immigration officers that they couldn’t process her family’s asylum claim at the U.S. border on Saturday before a U.S. senator intervened to persuade the officers to take the woman to a Texas hospital.
While visiting a migrant shelter Saturday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) grew concerned about a woman who was 38 weeks pregnant and suffering from preeclampsia and other complications. The senator and his staff decided to take the woman, her husband and 3-year-old son to a port of entry to make their asylum claim.
At the Paso del Norte Bridge linking Juárez and El Paso, the family approached two Customs and Border Protection officers, presented their identification and said they wanted to request asylum. They then heard the words that tens of thousands of asylum seekers have been told for more than a year at the U.S.-Mexico border: “We’re full,” a CBP officer told them.
Wyden, who had followed behind the family along with an entourage of staff members and friends from Oregon, then stepped forward and identified himself. He told the officers that Mexicans are exempt from the “metering” program CBP has used to strictly control the number of people allowed to request asylum at ports of entry. He also told the officers the woman was late term in her pregnancy and suffering complications.
The officers called a supervisor, who arrived minutes later, and allowed the family to go to the port of entry to make their asylum claim.
Wyden was clearly shaken by his two-day visit to the border, which included a tour of CBP holding cells and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. At the Juárez shelter, he met a 3-year-old boy who had stopped speaking after being held with his father by the U.S. Border Patrol and then sent back to Mexico.
Wyden spoke with families who were required to stay in Mexico for six months before their first U.S. immigration court hearing.
10 comments:
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
HOPEFULLY these immigrants MIGHT produce some positive side effects and possibly MAGA.
"Give me your sick and we'll give them free medical.Give me your tired and we'll give them a monthly welfare check. Give me your homeless and we'll give them free housing. Give me your hungry and we'll give them food stamps. And while we're at it we'll give you a free cell phone, we'll pay your utilities, we'll give you free education and we won't ask you for an ID if you want to vote (I wonder if they'll vote Republican or Democrat)."
thats BS
no one is above the law
that senator should be charged for harboring, smuggling, or abuse of authority/ official opression and HE needs to pay that woman's medical bills
NO MORE MOJADOS MAMONES FROM ANY SHIT HOLE THIRD WORLD COUNTRY....PERIOD!!
LET'S TAKE CARE AMERICAN HOMELESS AND POOR FIRST...PERIOD!!!!!!!
Today's homeless and poor are yesterday's immigrants, you imbecile! May God damn you.
Of course the homeless are gringos from cockroach europe all they want is:
they are all sick and we'll give them free medical.
They are all tired and we'll give them a monthly welfare check.
they are all homeless and we'll give them free housing.
they are all hungry and we'll give them food stamps.
And while we're at it we'll give you a free cell phone, we'll pay your utilities, we'll give you free education and we won't ask you for an ID if you want to vote (I wonder if they'll vote Republican )."
No one is above the LAW INDICT the pig president NOW!!!!!
OINK OINK OINK OINK OINK
You mean from cockroach europe the outhouse of the world...
@ July 28, 2019 at 8:01 PM :pendejo
imbecile! is very correct thank you....
Gadzooks!
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