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"content": "\u003cp>Several dozen Central American migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border again, this time escorted by federal agents to an El Paso, Texas, courtroom, as part of an unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to control migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One by one, the judge asked if the migrants had a lawyer during a hearing last week. Nearly all of them said, \"No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not unusual. More than 6,000 migrants who came to the United States to ask for asylum have been sent back to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, to wait for their day in U.S. immigration court under the \"Remain in Mexico\" program. But only about 20 of them have lawyers, according to human rights groups and attorneys who work with the migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remain in Mexico is a key part of the Trump administration's plan to turn back a crush of migrants at the southern border, and it's a historic shift in how the asylum system works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758532\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-800x266.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-1200x400.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Belongings of asylum-seekers sit on a desk in a church shelter in Ciudad Juárez. Right: Giovanni, 44, his son, Jonathan, 8, and his twin daughters, Catherine and Carl,a were sent back under the program known as \"Remain in Mexico\" to await their immigration court dates. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the program will help restore a \"safe and orderly immigration process\" and prevent migrants from gaming the system by asking for asylum and then never turning up for court and disappearing in the interior of the United States. In June, the U.S. and Mexico announced plans to expand the program widely along their shared border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Remain in Mexico is drawing widespread criticism. Immigrant advocates, lawyers and former U.S. officials say the country is turning its back on asylum-seekers — vulnerable people who are allowed under U.S. law to seek sanctuary here. Instead, these migrants travel thousands of miles, only to get stopped on the doorstep of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758513\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Levy, an El Paso immigration attorney, speaks with a Guatemalan migrant named Genero at the Paso del Norte International Bridge. In practice, lawyers say, few migrants in Juarez have access to legal counsel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union that represents U.S. asylum officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736461700/asylum-officers-trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-is-against-moral-fabric-of-u-s\">filed a brief in federal court last week \u003c/a>as part of a lawsuit seeking to block the program, arguing it is \"fundamentally contrary to the moral fabric of our nation.\" In a separate brief, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, among others, argued the program runs afoul of international commitments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Remain in Mexico program in El Paso is one of the largest in the nation. And it offers a case study in how the program is working: Many migrants are confused about the legal process and fearful for their safety in dangerous Mexican border towns. Moreover, advocates and lawyers say more migrant families are being separated under the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a complete farce,\" said Taylor Levy, an immigration lawyer in El Paso, noting that the Trump administration now calls the program Migrant Protection Protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked with asylum-seekers for 10 years,\" Levy said. \"I have never seen people as scared, who are just viscerally terrified while they're begging me, 'Please don't let me get sent back. Please don't let me get sent back.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seekers do not have a right to a court-appointed lawyer in immigration court. The administration says it provides migrants in the program with a list of legal service providers in the area that offer help at little or no expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of El Buen Pastor, a shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in reality, lawyers in El Paso said not enough nonprofit or pro bono lawyers are willing or able to take the time to trek back and forth across the international bridge where wait times can be several hours long. That leaves many migrants to navigate the process themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, advocates say, migrants have frequently become victims of crime in Juarez, including kidnappings and robberies. And migrants say they feel like they're targets because they stand out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758536\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serafin Aguilera Perez, 39, from Havana, Cuba, shows bruises on his face that he says he sustained after he was attacked by two people who tried to take money that his sister had wired to him. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We are all afraid when we go out,\" said a Cuban migrant named Serafin Aguilera Perez. He said he was returned to Juarez last month after spending more than 40 days in U.S. custody. His sister in Miami wired him money to help him find shelter and food in Juarez, he told NPR. But when he went to a convenience store, Aguilera said, he was jumped from behind by two attackers who knocked him down and tried to take his money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How could I feel safe?\" he said. \"Look how beat up I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assailants didn't get the money, Aguilera said. But they left him with a black eye and visible scrapes on his chin and cheek. Aguilera said he wound up paying 7,000 pesos — more than $350 — to a hospital in Juarez that treated his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the migrants in Juarez, who fled extreme poverty and violence in Central America, Cuba and Africa, say they feel trapped in the crowded migrant shelters run by churches in Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't go anywhere because you don't know the area, and it's dangerous, too,\" said Jose Baires Chavez, a migrant from El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Baires said, gangs tried to recruit him after he left the military. So he fled to the U.S. along with his son, Walter. But the two were returned to Juarez, and found their way to a migrant shelter in the city called El Buen Pastor. Now Baires said they're afraid to leave the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758539\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Baires Chavez and his son, Walter, at El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. They fled threats of violence in El Salvador and are waiting in Mexico for their U.S. asylum hearing, a process that could take months. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's like we're deprived of our freedom,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Never have we dealt with clients that are in so much danger,\" said Linda Rivas, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://las-americas.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center\u003c/a>. Rivas is one of the few lawyers in El Paso who is representing migrants in the program. She tells the story of a Honduran woman who asked for asylum and was put in this program. The woman told U.S. authorities she didn't feel safe in Juarez as a single woman, but she was sent back anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Rivas said, the woman alleged she was kidnapped and raped by multiple attackers. When Rivas heard about the allegations, she said that she and other advocates escorted the woman to the international bridge and convinced authorities to let her wait in the U.S. for her day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said she's terrified for her other clients who remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're representing them, and you know they're going to be back in Juarez,\" Rivas said. \"And you don't know if something's going to happen to them while they're waiting for the court, or they're waiting for you to go out there and work on their asylum cases with them. Anything can happen. And it's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said it will assess claims from migrants who say they fear returning to Mexico, and will exempt them if they are found to be \"more likely than not\" to face persecution or torture in Mexico. But in practice, advocates say, such exceptions are extremely rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates and lawyers in El Paso are also concerned about families in the program being separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration drew international condemnation when it routinely separated migrant parents from their children before abandoning the zero tolerance policy last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Mexico's National Guard and Federal Police patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent migrants from crossing from Ciudad Juárez. Residents and officials say they've never before seen a deployment of Mexican military forces on the northern border. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now lawyers say they have handled cases of families in which some members — sometimes the father and children older than 18 — are sent back to Mexico, while the mother and younger kids are allowed to stay in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers and advocates also say that families are separated when children come to the border with an adult who is not their parent or legal guardian, such as a grandparent, aunt or uncle, or older sibling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758538\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Guatemalan woman holds her immigration documents at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these relatives may have served as primary caretakers back in their home countries, authorities say they need legal proof of guardianship and that they're trying to ensure kids aren't being trafficked. This has been the policy in previous administrations, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under Remain in Mexico, these relatives are separated indefinitely with no means of contacting the children, who are taken into U.S. custody and eventually sent to shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement before being placed with sponsors, often other family members, in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government is not documenting these cases, is failing to provide ORR with critical information, and has no ability to track or reunify the families it is separating. This practice is traumatizing and endangering children,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women's Refugee Commission\u003c/a>, a nonprofit advocacy group, wrote in a report on Remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said migrant children who arrive at the border alone, or who are separated from their families, will not be subject to Remain in Mexico. The program also excludes \"vulnerable populations\" on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, says Juárez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the United States. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the administration plans to grow the program. Mexico agreed to an expansion after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs unless that country did more to stem the flow of migrants coming north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico also agreed to dispatch its National Guard on that county's southern and northern borders. In Juarez, there's a highly visible military presence of Mexican National Guard and Army forces. Residents and officials say they haven't seen such a deployment on the northern border before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The armed soldiers say they're not there to arrest anyone. Instead, they are there to deter migrants crossing the border illegally and directing migrants to get on a waiting list to be able to cross at an official port of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants are spending months on that list, often to be returned to Mexico after being processed by U.S. immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Mexico's efforts to deter migration, along with the Remain in Mexico program, are having an impact. At a press conference on Friday, McAleenan said apprehensions at the border are expected to drop 25% percent in June compared to the previous month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, apprehensions in the El Paso-Juarez region remain high. The U.S. Border Patrol said last week that agents are taking into custody an average of about 800 people a day in the El Paso sector. That's down slightly from May, but still far above the number of apprehensions in the region six months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban migrants give each other a tearful hug after being returned to Ciudad Juárez under the Remain in Mexico program. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, said Juarez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a situation that even though we did not cause locally, we have been coping locally,\" he said. \"We have been working to gather any kind of resources you can get a hold of.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Fear%2C+Confusion+And+Separation+As+Trump+Administration+Sends+Migrants+Back+To+Mexico&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Several dozen Central American migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border again, this time escorted by federal agents to an El Paso, Texas, courtroom, as part of an unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to control migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One by one, the judge asked if the migrants had a lawyer during a hearing last week. Nearly all of them said, \"No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not unusual. More than 6,000 migrants who came to the United States to ask for asylum have been sent back to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, to wait for their day in U.S. immigration court under the \"Remain in Mexico\" program. But only about 20 of them have lawyers, according to human rights groups and attorneys who work with the migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remain in Mexico is a key part of the Trump administration's plan to turn back a crush of migrants at the southern border, and it's a historic shift in how the asylum system works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758532\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-160x53.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-800x266.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-1020x340.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/diptych_custom-b41df3689c86727838d66cfa460bbb37faaf5a1f-s1300-c85-2-1200x400.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Belongings of asylum-seekers sit on a desk in a church shelter in Ciudad Juárez. Right: Giovanni, 44, his son, Jonathan, 8, and his twin daughters, Catherine and Carl,a were sent back under the program known as \"Remain in Mexico\" to await their immigration court dates. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the program will help restore a \"safe and orderly immigration process\" and prevent migrants from gaming the system by asking for asylum and then never turning up for court and disappearing in the interior of the United States. In June, the U.S. and Mexico announced plans to expand the program widely along their shared border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Remain in Mexico is drawing widespread criticism. Immigrant advocates, lawyers and former U.S. officials say the country is turning its back on asylum-seekers — vulnerable people who are allowed under U.S. law to seek sanctuary here. Instead, these migrants travel thousands of miles, only to get stopped on the doorstep of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758513\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758513\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-66-edit_custom-a04c22524e832f60c6ebdd8e607fc1a789d00d85-e1562014796513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Levy, an El Paso immigration attorney, speaks with a Guatemalan migrant named Genero at the Paso del Norte International Bridge. In practice, lawyers say, few migrants in Juarez have access to legal counsel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union that represents U.S. asylum officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/736461700/asylum-officers-trumps-remain-in-mexico-policy-is-against-moral-fabric-of-u-s\">filed a brief in federal court last week \u003c/a>as part of a lawsuit seeking to block the program, arguing it is \"fundamentally contrary to the moral fabric of our nation.\" In a separate brief, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, among others, argued the program runs afoul of international commitments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Remain in Mexico program in El Paso is one of the largest in the nation. And it offers a case study in how the program is working: Many migrants are confused about the legal process and fearful for their safety in dangerous Mexican border towns. Moreover, advocates and lawyers say more migrant families are being separated under the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a complete farce,\" said Taylor Levy, an immigration lawyer in El Paso, noting that the Trump administration now calls the program Migrant Protection Protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have worked with asylum-seekers for 10 years,\" Levy said. \"I have never seen people as scared, who are just viscerally terrified while they're begging me, 'Please don't let me get sent back. Please don't let me get sent back.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seekers do not have a right to a court-appointed lawyer in immigration court. The administration says it provides migrants in the program with a list of legal service providers in the area that offer help at little or no expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758520\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-22-edit_custom-5aa9a741acf28ed10026739648c148b42dc6d05a-1-e1562014854200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of El Buen Pastor, a shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in reality, lawyers in El Paso said not enough nonprofit or pro bono lawyers are willing or able to take the time to trek back and forth across the international bridge where wait times can be several hours long. That leaves many migrants to navigate the process themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, advocates say, migrants have frequently become victims of crime in Juarez, including kidnappings and robberies. And migrants say they feel like they're targets because they stand out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758536\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-91-edit_custom-cea3ab274c19947674380af9c036b22d5a77e6cd-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serafin Aguilera Perez, 39, from Havana, Cuba, shows bruises on his face that he says he sustained after he was attacked by two people who tried to take money that his sister had wired to him. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We are all afraid when we go out,\" said a Cuban migrant named Serafin Aguilera Perez. He said he was returned to Juarez last month after spending more than 40 days in U.S. custody. His sister in Miami wired him money to help him find shelter and food in Juarez, he told NPR. But when he went to a convenience store, Aguilera said, he was jumped from behind by two attackers who knocked him down and tried to take his money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How could I feel safe?\" he said. \"Look how beat up I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assailants didn't get the money, Aguilera said. But they left him with a black eye and visible scrapes on his chin and cheek. Aguilera said he wound up paying 7,000 pesos — more than $350 — to a hospital in Juarez that treated his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the migrants in Juarez, who fled extreme poverty and violence in Central America, Cuba and Africa, say they feel trapped in the crowded migrant shelters run by churches in Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't go anywhere because you don't know the area, and it's dangerous, too,\" said Jose Baires Chavez, a migrant from El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Baires said, gangs tried to recruit him after he left the military. So he fled to the U.S. along with his son, Walter. But the two were returned to Juarez, and found their way to a migrant shelter in the city called El Buen Pastor. Now Baires said they're afraid to leave the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758539\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758539\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-16-edit1_custom-404521363db28f19aae6ceda143d061bac65e3ba-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Baires Chavez and his son, Walter, at El Buen Pastor migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. They fled threats of violence in El Salvador and are waiting in Mexico for their U.S. asylum hearing, a process that could take months. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's like we're deprived of our freedom,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Never have we dealt with clients that are in so much danger,\" said Linda Rivas, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://las-americas.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center\u003c/a>. Rivas is one of the few lawyers in El Paso who is representing migrants in the program. She tells the story of a Honduran woman who asked for asylum and was put in this program. The woman told U.S. authorities she didn't feel safe in Juarez as a single woman, but she was sent back anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Rivas said, the woman alleged she was kidnapped and raped by multiple attackers. When Rivas heard about the allegations, she said that she and other advocates escorted the woman to the international bridge and convinced authorities to let her wait in the U.S. for her day in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said she's terrified for her other clients who remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're representing them, and you know they're going to be back in Juarez,\" Rivas said. \"And you don't know if something's going to happen to them while they're waiting for the court, or they're waiting for you to go out there and work on their asylum cases with them. Anything can happen. And it's happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said it will assess claims from migrants who say they fear returning to Mexico, and will exempt them if they are found to be \"more likely than not\" to face persecution or torture in Mexico. But in practice, advocates say, such exceptions are extremely rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates and lawyers in El Paso are also concerned about families in the program being separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration drew international condemnation when it routinely separated migrant parents from their children before abandoning the zero tolerance policy last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11758533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-108-edit_custom-4f724b999136569349f3f2e9b0f013cf55c93fb8-s1300-c85-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Mexico's National Guard and Federal Police patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent migrants from crossing from Ciudad Juárez. Residents and officials say they've never before seen a deployment of Mexican military forces on the northern border. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now lawyers say they have handled cases of families in which some members — sometimes the father and children older than 18 — are sent back to Mexico, while the mother and younger kids are allowed to stay in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers and advocates also say that families are separated when children come to the border with an adult who is not their parent or legal guardian, such as a grandparent, aunt or uncle, or older sibling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758538\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758538\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-34_custom-dabf810eb09af05c7af6d1306c6afed3212acc07-s500-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Guatemalan woman holds her immigration documents at a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these relatives may have served as primary caretakers back in their home countries, authorities say they need legal proof of guardianship and that they're trying to ensure kids aren't being trafficked. This has been the policy in previous administrations, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under Remain in Mexico, these relatives are separated indefinitely with no means of contacting the children, who are taken into U.S. custody and eventually sent to shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement before being placed with sponsors, often other family members, in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The government is not documenting these cases, is failing to provide ORR with critical information, and has no ability to track or reunify the families it is separating. This practice is traumatizing and endangering children,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women's Refugee Commission\u003c/a>, a nonprofit advocacy group, wrote in a report on Remain in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration said migrant children who arrive at the border alone, or who are separated from their families, will not be subject to Remain in Mexico. The program also excludes \"vulnerable populations\" on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758537\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-29-edit_custom-3c586f3704657aef309e8981f8ee303003574ae7-s500-c85-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, says Juárez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the United States. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the administration plans to grow the program. Mexico agreed to an expansion after President Trump threatened to impose tariffs unless that country did more to stem the flow of migrants coming north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico also agreed to dispatch its National Guard on that county's southern and northern borders. In Juarez, there's a highly visible military presence of Mexican National Guard and Army forces. Residents and officials say they haven't seen such a deployment on the northern border before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The armed soldiers say they're not there to arrest anyone. Instead, they are there to deter migrants crossing the border illegally and directing migrants to get on a waiting list to be able to cross at an official port of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants are spending months on that list, often to be returned to Mexico after being processed by U.S. immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Mexico's efforts to deter migration, along with the Remain in Mexico program, are having an impact. At a press conference on Friday, McAleenan said apprehensions at the border are expected to drop 25% percent in June compared to the previous month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, apprehensions in the El Paso-Juarez region remain high. The U.S. Border Patrol said last week that agents are taking into custody an average of about 800 people a day in the El Paso sector. That's down slightly from May, but still far above the number of apprehensions in the region six months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11758534\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11758534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/pratje_mpp_joelrose-92_custom-ef958e368255e6ea790bf94d2970bfe630efea1d-s1300-c85-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban migrants give each other a tearful hug after being returned to Ciudad Juárez under the Remain in Mexico program. \u003ccite>(Paul Ratje/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Enrique Valenzuela, a Mexican state immigration official, said Juarez is bracing for more migrants to arrive from the south — and to be returned from the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose congresswoman Zoe Lofgren introduced legislation Thursday to address crippling violence, government dysfunction and poverty in Central America, which has led scores of people to flee the region and seek asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The worst place to deal with a regional humanitarian crisis is at our own border. And we know that people are leaving for a reason,\" said Lofgren, a Democrat and former immigration lawyer, who chairs the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes just days after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/mexico-father-daughter-dead-rio-grande-wednesday/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drowned Salvadoran father\u003c/a> and his 23-month-old daughter were discovered and photographed face-down on the banks of the Rio Grande. Oscar Alberto Martinez and his toddler, Angie Valeria, had reportedly been waiting for months in Mexico to request asylum at an official port of entry before they attempted to cross the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren’s Northern Triangle and Border Stabilization Act would require the State Department to submit a five-year strategy to Congress geared at combating corruption and strengthening the rule of law in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which calls for the U.S. to consult with nonprofits, regional governments and the Inter-American Development Bank, offers a remarkably different approach from the hard-line immigration enforcement priorities pushed by President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related stories\" tag=\"border\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the president’s behest, officials with the State Department announced this month they are cutting \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-states-foreign-aid-central-america-migrant-action_n_5d080db3e4b0886dd15d93cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$370 million\u003c/a> in aid to Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has berated so-called Northern Triangle countries for not doing more to prevent thousands of their citizens from coming to the U.S. He has also threatened to impose steep tariffs on Mexico, and even close the border altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight months, U.S. border officials arrested significantly more parents with children than at any time since 2013, when the agency began tracking family units. Asylum applications increased by nearly 70% between 2017 and 2018, according to government figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What he’s doing is clearly not working,\" Lofgren told KQED on Wednesday. \"In fact, what he’s doing is making things much worse. We cannot continue on the path the president is leading us on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren’s bill would provide resources to hire additional U.S. immigration judges to tackle a backlog of more than 908,000 \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pending cases\u003c/a> nationwide. It would also fund improvements at border detention facilities to improve care for women and children and allow more Central Americans to apply for asylum protection from their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Lofgren bill is, I think, a really constructive start to getting it right,” said Dan Restrepo, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, who served as an adviser on Latin America to President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restrepo said that the Trump administration has already canceled a range of effective U.S. aid programs in Central America — from violence prevention to climate mitigation for farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times people in this argument say that we don't know what to do. And that's just not true,” said Restrepo. “We have programs that have worked in the real world in these countries that, for whatever reason, this president decided to stop doing. And predictably, migration has gotten worse in terms of the larger number of people fleeing these countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren said her proposal would reward Central American governments and organizations that fight corruption and tie funds to measurable improvements in reducing gang violence and strengthening regional legal and educational systems. The bill, however, does not yet outline a specific budget to pay for the proposed plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’ll tell you what — we are spending an enormous amount of money at our southern border with very little results,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, the House and Senate separately \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11757496/as-senate-approves-border-spending-bill-california-lawmakers-fight-for-more-safeguards\">approved\u003c/a> roughly $4.5 billion in emergency funding to handle the surge of migrants at the border. The bills, however, contain strikingly different proposals for how the funding should be allocated. The two chambers must now reconcile differences in the competing pieces of legislation before sending a final bill to Trump, who has suggested he would veto anything resembling the House's version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Friday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the modern, well-lit pedestrian crossing bustled with travelers on their way from Tijuana into San Diego. As they waited in line for a border officer to inspect their passports or other documents, another line began forming in a separate part of the building. This one was for asylum-seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Kevin, asylum-seeker from Honduras']‘It’s like you lose hope. Maybe asylum isn’t real. Sometimes I wonder.’[/pullquote]In this room, hidden from the routine flow of traffic, men, women and small children from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America stood in silence — single file, with their hands behind their backs. They waited for an officer to take them down several flights of stairs to the port basement, where they would be placed in a holding cell while U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) decided where they would go next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late May, KQED got a rare glimpse inside CBP’s Admissibility Enforcement Unit, the basement of the San Ysidro Port of Entry where asylum-seekers attempting to enter the U.S. legally from Tijuana are initially processed. Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Sep/CBP%20TEDS%20Policy%20Oct2015.pdf\">CBP standards\u003c/a>, people should generally not be held in such facilities for more than 72 hours, but the time limit is often exceeded. Migrants told KQED they were recently detained there for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asylum-seeking migrants often travel for weeks or even months to get to the U.S.-Mexico border. But officials say they are overwhelmed and can process only a limited number of requests each day, so the migrants put their names on an informal list and then wait in Tijuana — sometimes for months — until it’s their turn to return to the port of entry and ask for asylum. As large numbers of asylum-seekers arrive here, the basement has become ground zero for what the agency describes as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Owen-Provost-Padilla%20Joint%20Testimony.pdf\">crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four asylum-seekers recently detained here told KQED that border officers denied them food, delayed medical treatment, used physical force against them or other detainees and pressured them to sign paperwork that would trigger their return to Mexico. While KQED was not able to independently verify the accounts from asylum-seekers, several individuals repeated the same observations in separate interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CBP spokeswoman denied those allegations, calling them unsubstantiated, and said the agency “treats those in its custody with dignity and respect and provides multiple avenues to report any misconduct.” She said the agency investigates all formal complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The San Ysidro Port of Entry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, 34,000 people walk north through the San Ysidro Port of Entry’s pedestrian crossings, and 45,000 cars move through its vehicle inspection lines, according to CBP. With 19% of all traffic coming into the United States here, San Ysidro is the busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx01gsmr8RI&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The port’s underground facility looks like a jail, but cleaner. White cinder block walls enclose hallways with surveillance cameras. The floor is gray linoleum with drains. Migrants first undergo a medical screening. People with contagious illnesses, transgender migrants and other vulnerable detainees must be isolated, according to CBP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]‘A CBP spokeswoman denied allegations made by four asylum-seekers who spoke to KQED, calling them unsubstantiated.’[/pullquote]After the initial intake process, migrants pass through a chain-link gate and stand at a counter to answer questions from officers sitting behind computers. Mothers and children sit together beneath a large American flag hanging in a waiting room. Meanwhile, migrants shuffle back and forth from holding cells to the cafeteria or showers, walking in single file with their hands behind their backs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cells are the size of a small bedroom. Inside, migrants sit on metal benches or use the toilet — shielded only by a waist-high divider. Detainees hold aluminum blankets and thin, rolled-up sleeping mats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the people who spoke to KQED are Central Americans who underwent an initial screening and were sent back to Tijuana to await their hearings in U.S. immigration court under the government’s recent Migrant Protection Protocols, or “Return to Mexico” policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are accounts of detention inside the San Ysidro Port of Entry from four asylum-seekers. KQED has agreed to identify them by partially naming them— generally using their first names— because they all have ongoing asylum cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Lovo looks out from a rooftop in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 23, 2019. Lovo said she lost her baby while being detained at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. (Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carmen Lovo: Miscarriage in a Cell\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Lovo, 34, from El Salvador (not her full name), said she was detained twice. She said she found out she was pregnant while she was held for three days in March the first time and suffered a miscarriage. She believes delayed access to medical attention played a role in the loss of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Carmen Lovo, asylum-seeker from El Salvador']“The officials told me, ‘You have to sign.’ “[/pullquote]Lovo said she told officers she was experiencing pain and asked to see a doctor, but she waited four hours to be assessed. An ambulance arrived around midnight, another five hours later, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovo said she received no documentation of the hospital visit. She said she returned from the hospital to the port of entry with blood-stained pants, and was released in Tijuana the next day. Lovo said she planned to file a complaint but decided not to because she no longer had proof of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two women told KQED they were detained in the same holding cell as Lovo and witnessed what she described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovo also said CBP officers pressured asylum-seekers to sign documents when they refused to do so because they feared returning to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when you don’t want to sign, they make you sign,” Lovo said. “The officials told me, ‘You have to sign. Why are you crying?’ ‘Because I don’t want to return to Tijuana, because I’m scared.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘If you don’t want to be here anymore …’ ” she added. “In the moment, you feel desperate because it’s hard to be locked up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CBP’s director of field operations in San Diego, Pete Flores, said officers never have asylum-seekers refuse to sign paperwork required for processing under the Migrant Protection Protocols, and if they did, an officer would simply note it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin inside a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 23, 2019. (Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kevin: ‘Maybe Asylum Isn’t Real’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin, 20, from Honduras, said he got sick while in detention at the port of entry for 20 days. The first time, he thought he had the flu. Another time, it was a bad stomach ache and constipation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, a man in his cell started throwing up blood, he said, so Kevin and other migrants knocked on the door to summon help. After a while, an officer responded and administered an EKG, he said. Later, a second man began vomiting blood in a frightening episode, said Kevin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, the detainees called for help, he said, and a different CBP agent came to the cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin said she told the detainees she didn’t understand what they were saying. “She told me ‘No speak Spanish,’ ” Kevin said, but he added that he had heard her speak Spanish previously, and thought she wanted to avoid having to deal with a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another time, he says an immigration judge told him he would have an interview, but that he never did, and was simply sent back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird, right? That they say one thing, and then it doesn’t happen. It’s like you lose hope. Maybe asylum isn’t real. Sometimes I wonder,” Kevin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752916\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752916\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/45-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/45-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/45-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/45-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/45-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/45-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/45.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adela stands in a stairwell above a coffee shop in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 23, 2019. (Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adela: ‘You Sign or We Deport’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adela, 32, said she lived alone in Honduras with her two children before coming to the port of entry. She said her kids got sick when they were detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent time they were detained, she said her son became ill from the cold temperatures in the holding cell, which prevented him from sleeping. She said she and her 7-year-old daughter were held in a cell with many other women and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Adela, asylum-seeker from Honduras']‘You had to walk on the benches because the people couldn’t fit in there.’[/pullquote]Adela said she could not sleep because there were so many people packed into the cell that there was only space to sleep sitting up on a bench. A woman who she estimated to be six to eight months pregnant slept beneath her on the floor, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t lay down or even stand up,” Adela said. “You had to walk on the benches because the people couldn’t fit in there. I couldn’t sleep because everything is made of metal. It’s freezing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also claimed that, during the first time she was detained, an officer pressured her into signing a form required for sending migrants back to await their asylum hearings in Mexico. Initially, a male officer who interviewed her noted that she refused to sign the document. Early the next morning, she said, a different officer retrieved her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said ‘Sign.’ And I didn’t want to so she took me to a room. It was like an office. I’m not sure, but there was no one (else) there,” Adela said. “She yelled at me to sign. I cried. I didn’t want to sign. She said ‘Sign! I don’t have all day to be with here with you.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She talked to me really loudly. ‘You sign or we deport you to your country,’ she said. So I grabbed the pen and I signed,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752907\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/16-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/16-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/16.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerson, who now works in a barbershop in Tijuana, Mexico, said he was detained at the San Ysidro Port of Entry for 13 days. (Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gerson: Laughter and Song Among the Asylum-Seekers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerson, a 22-year-old from Honduras, said he was detained at the port of entry for 13 days following a hearing in immigration court. He is now working as a barber in Tijuana while he awaits his next hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerson described being locked in a cell with migrants from all over the world, sometimes as many as 30 people. To pass the time, they would recall stories about their lives and tell jokes. Even if a punchline was lost to the language barrier, the other detainees would still laugh, he said, and sometimes, they would sing, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One time I was singing and (an officer) told me to shut up and so we did,” Gerson said. “A little while later, we started to sing again and all of a sudden the officer grabbed my arm and twisted it and pushed me up against a wall. He said, ‘What did I tell you? I told you to shut up.’ I couldn’t say anything. I just kept quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CBP’s Challenges\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2008 to 2018, the total number of asylum applications \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1163606/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost quadrupled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='border' label='More Border Coverage']San Ysidro’s Port Director Sidney Aki said that while CBP officers typically process unaccompanied migrant children in one day and families within three days, officers can’t always move detainees out of the facility as quickly as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, what we have normally taken into custody were single individuals,” Aki said. “Now there’s this new era with regards to family units now being a good majority of what we take in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokeswoman for CBP said the agency strives to process individuals as expeditiously as possible, and that most individuals are in custody for 72 hours or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are exceptions when a given individual may remain in CBP custody for a longer period of time for one of any number of reasons, such as the need to maintain family unity; availability of appropriate detention space in another facility; translation requirements, and more,” the spokeswoman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CBP also holds families and unaccompanied children for more time when Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which transports migrants to detention facilities, does not have enough space for them, according to CBP spokesman Ralph DeSio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there are no openings with ICE, you can’t move them on,” DeSio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, from October 2018 to May 2019, the number of migrants deemed “inadmissible” at ports of entry along the southern border increased from 9,769 to 11,391 people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\">CBP data\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After the initial intake process, migrants pass through a chain-link gate and stand at a counter to answer questions from officers sitting behind computers. Mothers and children sit together beneath a large American flag hanging in a waiting room. Meanwhile, migrants shuffle back and forth from holding cells to the cafeteria or showers, walking in single file with their hands behind their backs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cells are the size of a small bedroom. Inside, migrants sit on metal benches or use the toilet — shielded only by a waist-high divider. Detainees hold aluminum blankets and thin, rolled-up sleeping mats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the people who spoke to KQED are Central Americans who underwent an initial screening and were sent back to Tijuana to await their hearings in U.S. immigration court under the government’s recent Migrant Protection Protocols, or “Return to Mexico” policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are accounts of detention inside the San Ysidro Port of Entry from four asylum-seekers. KQED has agreed to identify them by partially naming them— generally using their first names— because they all have ongoing asylum cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752913\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/10.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Lovo looks out from a rooftop in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 23, 2019. Lovo said she lost her baby while being detained at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. (Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carmen Lovo: Miscarriage in a Cell\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Lovo, 34, from El Salvador (not her full name), said she was detained twice. She said she found out she was pregnant while she was held for three days in March the first time and suffered a miscarriage. She believes delayed access to medical attention played a role in the loss of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Why are you crying?’ ‘Because I don’t want to return to Tijuana, because I’m scared.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said, ‘If you don’t want to be here anymore …’ ” she added. “In the moment, you feel desperate because it’s hard to be locked up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CBP’s director of field operations in San Diego, Pete Flores, said officers never have asylum-seekers refuse to sign paperwork required for processing under the Migrant Protection Protocols, and if they did, an officer would simply note it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11752903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11752903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/43.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin inside a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 23, 2019. 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Down the hall, physicians from the county and UC San Diego conducted initial health screenings for new arrivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Michael Hopkins, Jewish Family Service CEO']‘I don’t think you’re gonna find a day that migrants are sleeping on the street because either the government or the nonprofit community has said we can’t handle them.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single migrant that ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) releases to our shelter, we’re sure that they have medical screening,” Jewish Family Service CEO Michael Hopkins explained, walking briskly from one floor of the shelter to another, passing charts showing how long it takes to get to different states by bus and plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately we’re trying to figure out if they are healthy to travel, because we want to make sure that anyone who — if you’re on an airplane, you want to make sure the person next to you doesn’t have a communicable disease,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one area, a group of children were clustered together on one cot to watch a movie. All of the adults were wearing electronic ankle monitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think you’re gonna find a day that migrants are sleeping on the street because either the government or the nonprofit community has said we can’t handle them,” Hopkins said. “We’re pretty committed to figuring out a way to handle the migrants that are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750453\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/5-e1559078173403.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750453\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/5-e1559078173403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman sleeps wearing an ankle bracelet at the Jewish Family Service of San Diego on May 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Impact of Early Support\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In recent days, county health officials and a coalition of nonprofits and faith-based organizations known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.rapidresponsesd.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Rapid Response Network\u003c/a> have been responding to a flu outbreak among migrants recently arrived on government-chartered flights from south Texas Border Patrol facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins and others say San Diego is well-equipped to deal with the flu outbreak because the immigrant service organizations have been getting support for months from the state and local governments to respond to the needs of earlier waves of migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really pretty confident that the state of California will be the significant funder of this project,” Hopkins said. “In addition, we’ve literally raised over a million dollars through private philanthropy to help fund the operation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter — run by Jewish Family Service — sprang into action last week after immigration authorities announced they’d be flying migrants from Texas to San Diego. At the time, they didn’t know that dozens of the arriving migrants would be suffering from the flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrant families from Texas began showing up at the shelter on May 19, the day before a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy with influenza died in Border Patrol custody in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, 47 migrants \u003ca href=\"https://www.countynewscenter.com/county-responds-to-flu-outbreak-at-migrant-shelter/\">have been diagnosed\u003c/a> with flu-like symptoms, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. Fifteen are quarantined in hotels — down from two dozen. One person has been sent to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/29-e1559078443931.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/29-e1559078443931.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check-in for volunteers at at the Jewish Family Service of San Diego on May 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>One-Way Ticket to San Diego\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/speeches-and-statements/acting-commissioner-sanders-statement-transferring-people-border\">began flying\u003c/a> the migrants to San Diego on May 17 to relieve overwhelmed Border Patrol facilities in the Rio Grande Valley. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Sep/CBP%20TEDS%20Policy%20Oct2015.pdf\">CBP standards\u003c/a> state that detainees should generally not be held in holding facilities for longer than 72 hours, although the time limit is often exceeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, San Diego has received eight flights carrying approximately 130 migrants each, according to a Border Patrol spokesman. A CBP spokesman said the agency expects up to three flights per week moving forward, with 120-135 migrants on each flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11748722,news_11743074,news_11736409' label='More on San Diego Migrant Response']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the migrants arrive, they are bused to Border Patrol stations for processing and then handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. After ICE releases the migrants, they end up here at the shelter, where volunteers give them hot meals, fresh clothes and help them contact and eventually travel to relatives or sponsors in the U.S. to await their day in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the migrants arriving at the shelter have reported not having adequate access to food and water in government-run facilities. Medical staff have treated some for dehydration, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Depending on where they were — whether it’s a detention facility or Border Patrol station, it could be that they haven’t had food in 24 hours or 48 hours,” Hopkins explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether CBP plans to transport more migrants to other states and cities. Hopkins said he has received calls from county workers in Florida who anticipate they could receive migrants from federal immigration authorities next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks I was speaking with are preparing for hurricane season, not migrant season,” Hopkins said. “Even though they have a lot of experience running emergency shelters for hurricanes, obviously this work with migrants is a wee bit different. They wanted to learn what we’ve learned along the way, so that if in fact migrants are sent to other parts of the country, they could be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/20-e1559078575381.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/20-e1559078575381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Hopkins, chief executive officer of the Jewish Family Service of San Diego, attends Migrant Crisis Working Group meeting on May 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘We Have No Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Diego Rapid Response Network jumped into action last fall after the Trump administration ended a long-standing federal policy of helping migrants reach family in the U.S. upon release from ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter can house up to 200 people at a time and costs $450,000 a month to run. Jewish Family Service operates it with funding from the state as well as private donations. The county has made the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736409/shelter-for-asylum-seeking-migrants-opens-in-vacant-san-diego-courthouse\">former courthouse\u003c/a> building available at virtually no cost. A new location is needed by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October, more than 14,000 migrants have received medical screenings from the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, with help from UC San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two local clinics that began volunteering medical care for the migrants are now being paid to provide health care with state funds that Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/01/31/asylum-seekers-and-refugees/\">pledged\u003c/a> earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was late November when the county began to understand the numbers of individuals and the potential for health crisis if they weren’t involved,” Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said if they had not had a system already in place, the flights and ensuing flu outbreak could have impacted San Diego’s hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In reality, Border Patrol agents and so forth are not medical professionals,” said Dr. Nick Yphantides, San Diego County’s chief medical officer. “And if we didn’t have this in place, there would actually be a greater burden on our local emergency rooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750451\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750451\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/15-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawings colored with crayons hang on the wall at the Jewish Family Service of San Diego on May 24, 2019. Staff and asylum-seekers meet in the room to discuss contact with sponsors in the United States, travel arrangements and immigration work. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In April, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for “releasing thousands of asylum-seekers onto the streets of San Diego without any resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said the Trump administration’s decision to stop helping migrants with travel arrangements forced San Diego to step in and respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no choice. Their failure to do their job does not alleviate … the impact of their irresponsible behavior,” Fletcher said. “We have 15,000 people who have come through here, and so our choice is to create a centralized center, provide the services and resources, or have 15,000 people wandering the streets of San Diego, which has serious implications on public health, health care, public safety. And so we’re stepping up to do the very best we can in the federal government’s failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Nathan Fletcher, San Diego County supervisor']‘We have no choice. [The Trump administration’s] failure to do their job does not alleviate … the impact of their irresponsible behavior.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal immigration authorities have for months reported that CBP facilities are overcrowded and unable to accommodate the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\">high volume\u003c/a> of parents and children showing up at the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To mitigate the risk of holding family units past the time frame allotted to the government, ICE began curtailing all reviews of post-release plans from families apprehended along the southwest border starting on Tuesday, October 23,” ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE continues to work with local and state officials and NGO partners in the area so they are prepared to provide assistance with transportation or other services,” Mack said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins is not surprised that the San Diego shelter is where migrants from south Texas are ending up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that ICE and Border Patrol knows that we’ve got this down to a science,” Hopkins says. “And so if you were going to have planes drop off people anywhere in the country, it’s not a surprise that it’s here in San Diego because we’ve got this down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the migrants arrive, they are bused to Border Patrol stations for processing and then handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. After ICE releases the migrants, they end up here at the shelter, where volunteers give them hot meals, fresh clothes and help them contact and eventually travel to relatives or sponsors in the U.S. to await their day in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the migrants arriving at the shelter have reported not having adequate access to food and water in government-run facilities. Medical staff have treated some for dehydration, Hopkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Depending on where they were — whether it’s a detention facility or Border Patrol station, it could be that they haven’t had food in 24 hours or 48 hours,” Hopkins explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether CBP plans to transport more migrants to other states and cities. Hopkins said he has received calls from county workers in Florida who anticipate they could receive migrants from federal immigration authorities next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks I was speaking with are preparing for hurricane season, not migrant season,” Hopkins said. “Even though they have a lot of experience running emergency shelters for hurricanes, obviously this work with migrants is a wee bit different. They wanted to learn what we’ve learned along the way, so that if in fact migrants are sent to other parts of the country, they could be prepared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11750441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/20-e1559078575381.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11750441\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/20-e1559078575381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Hopkins, chief executive officer of the Jewish Family Service of San Diego, attends Migrant Crisis Working Group meeting on May 24, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ariana Drehsler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘We Have No Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Diego Rapid Response Network jumped into action last fall after the Trump administration ended a long-standing federal policy of helping migrants reach family in the U.S. upon release from ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter can house up to 200 people at a time and costs $450,000 a month to run. 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Here’s a look at what the White House has accomplished on immigration — and what it hasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-800x1185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1185\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11747953\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-800x1185.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-160x237.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-1020x1511.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-810x1200.png 810w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table.png 1418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Merit-Based System \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has laid out sweeping changes he’d like to make to the legal immigration system. 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But that could take years, so it may be a long time before people \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/04/720221968/a-love-that-stretches-beyond-trumps-travel-ban\">who are affected by the policy\u003c/a> see a change, if any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary Cities \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal courts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/15/551397597/federal-court-says-trump-administration-can-t-deny-funds-to-sanctuary-cities\">widely\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565678707/enter-title\">rejected \u003c/a>the Justice Department’s attempts to withhold law enforcement grants from so-called sanctuary cities that limit their cooperation with immigration authorities. In April, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/712760676/trump-threatens-to-send-detained-immigrants-to-sanctuary-cities\">threatened to bus migrants from the border\u003c/a> and then release them in sanctuary cities. But so far, his administration has not acted on those threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum Crackdown \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House wants to discourage migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S., arguing that many are abusing generous asylum laws to live and work in the country until their cases are heard in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have rejected some of the administration’s tactics, including an effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669471110/federal-court-blocks-trump-administrations-asylum-ban\">deny asylum to any migrant who crossed the border illegally\u003c/a>. But the Justice Department has succeeded in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686466207/its-getting-harder-for-migrants-to-win-asylum-cases-lawyers-say\">making it harder to get asylum based on gang or domestic violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ is also moving to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/714381003/ag-barr-orders-immigration-judges-to-stop-releasing-asylum-seekers-out-on-bail\">get rid of bond hearings\u003c/a> for detained asylum-seekers. And the administration wants to amend \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/622678753/the-history-of-the-flores-settlement-and-its-effects-on-immigration\">a decades-old settlement called the Flores agreement\u003c/a> in order to hold migrant families in detention for longer than a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these changes have stopped migrant families from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721616007/migrants-apprehended-at-southern-border-tops-100-000-for-second-consecutive-mont\">crossing the southern border in record numbers\u003c/a> to escape from poverty and violence in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remain in Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration authorities have sent about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/09/721755716/trump-administrations-remain-in-mexico-program-tangles-legal-process\">5,000 thousand migrants back to Mexico\u003c/a> to wait for months until a U.S. immigration court decides their asylum cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court initially blocked the administration from sending asylum-seekers back to crime-ridden Mexican border towns where many are staying in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court’s injunction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721293828/appeals-court-rules-trump-administration-can-keep-sending-asylum-seekers-to-mexi\">allowing the “Remain in Mexico” policy to continue\u003c/a> while the case plays out. Now the case goes back to the same judge in San Francisco, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/08/711265433/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-policy-of-sending-asylum-seekers-to-me\">said the policy lacked sufficient protections for asylum-seekers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Family Separation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610116389/transcript-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kellys-interview-with-npr\">intended to deter asylum-seekers\u003c/a> by separating migrant parents and children at the border — until Trump ended the policy under pressure last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge has ordered the administration to reunite nearly 3,000 children with their parents. The same judge has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/717380923/court-orders-administration-to-identify-separated-migrant-children-within-6-mont\">ordered the administration to identify what could be thousands of additional families\u003c/a> that were separated before the “zero tolerance” policy took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Wall \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After signing a spending bill to end the government shutdown in February, Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure billions of additional dollars for his signature immigration policy: the border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That emergency declaration is now being \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/695821740/16-states-sue-over-trumps-national-emergency-declaration\">challenged in court\u003c/a> by critics who say there is no emergency, and that the president is flouting the will of Congress in order to deliver on a key campaign promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have authorized more than $1.3 billion for 55 miles of steel fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration wants to spend an additional $6 billion from military construction and counter-drug accounts to add to that total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DACA\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s efforts to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, are stalled in court. That means \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca-profiles\">nearly 700,000 young immigrants\u003c/a> who were brought to the country illegally as children are still protected from deportation and allowed to work legally — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats and moderate Republicans are likely to insist on some relief for DACA recipients as part of any comprehensive immigration overhaul, while immigration hardliners are wary of granting “amnesty” or a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TPS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has moved to wind down Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190329_RS20844_40bba737bf5e4440ac7bebb19757db87fe994fa4.pdf\">more than 400,000 immigrants\u003c/a> from countries wracked by civil conflict or natural disasters.The immigrants are protected from deportation and allowed to work in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of legal challenges have been filed. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654264072/federal-judge-blocks-trump-from-removing-immigrants-from-four-countries\">blocked from ending TPS\u003c/a> for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan by a judge in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birthright Citizenship \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump threatened to end birthright citizenship, which is widely understood by legal scholarsto be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/662335612/legal-scholars-say-14th-amendment-doubt-trump-can-end-birthright-citizenship-wit\">guaranteed by the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>. He has not followed through on that threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 30 countries have birthright citizenship, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security is working on rules that would make it harder for immigrants to get green cards, or bring other family members to the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/20/640262463/trump-administration-moves-to-penalize-immigrants-for-using-government-benefits\">if they use a wide range of public benefits\u003c/a>, such as food stamps and subsidized health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final rule is still under development. But critics say the proposal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/26/686325494/fear-of-deportation-or-green-card-denial-deters-some-parents-from-getting-kids-c\">already scaring immigrants away from using benefits\u003c/a>. Immigrant advocates and state and local governments are expected to challenge the rule in court once it’s finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deportations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. spiked during the first two years of the Trump administration — for immigrants with and without criminal records. But the numbers remain \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/revving-deportation-machinery-under-trump-and-pushback\">well below\u003c/a> the highest figures of President Obama’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says arrests and deportations \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2019-04-17/ice-arresting-deporting-fewer-people-due-to-border-surge\">declined in early 2019\u003c/a> because the agency is devoting more resources to the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, immigrant advocates say aggressive enforcement by ICE continues to create a climate of fear among unauthorized migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of families that include undocumented members \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/722173775/proposed-rule-could-evict-55-000-children-from-subsidized-housing\">could be forced out of public housing\u003c/a> by a rule proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. These families include estimated 55,000 children who are U.S. citizens or legal residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule is intended to prevent undocumented immigrants or mixed-status families from living in public housing. It’s still in the public comment stage, and critics are pressuring HUD Secretary Ben Carson to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Refugee Cap\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has slashed the number of refugees the U.S. will accept. The official cap is set at 30,000 for the year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/us-annual-refugee-resettlement-ceilings-and-number-refugees-admitted-united\">the lowest figure since the current refugee resettlement program began\u003c/a> in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the administration is on pace to admit far less than the current cap. Halfway through the fiscal year, the U.S. had admitted \u003ca href=\"http://www.rcusa.org/blog/mid-year-refugee-arrivals-report\">fewer than 13,000 refugees\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Trump is proposing a fundamental overhaul of the U.S. immigration system, including more border security and tougher standards for who could be admitted. It’s the latest in a long line of White House efforts to reshape and restrict immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of those efforts have been stymied by the courts, Congress, and the administration’s critics at the state and local level. Here’s a look at what the White House has accomplished on immigration — and what it hasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-800x1185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1185\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11747953\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-800x1185.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-160x237.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-1020x1511.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table-810x1200.png 810w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/trump-immigration-table.png 1418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Merit-Based System \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has laid out sweeping changes he’d like to make to the legal immigration system. The White House proposal would favor immigrants with higher skills and more education, and it would shift the immigration system away from family reunification, which has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685819397/how-the-1965-immigration-act-made-america-a-nation-of-immigrants\">its guiding principle since 1965\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposal is getting little traction on Capitol Hill — particularly among Democrats, whose support would be necessary for the proposal to become law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s effort to restrict immigration and travel from several majority-Muslim countries was blocked by lower courts. But a modified version — including the majority-Muslim countries of Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus North Korea and Venezuela — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/606481548/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban\">upheld by the Supreme Court\u003c/a> in a major victory for the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another legal challenge remains after a federal judge in Maryland ruled that lawsuit \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-muslim-travel-ban-court-fight-scotus\">can go forward\u003c/a>. But that could take years, so it may be a long time before people \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/04/720221968/a-love-that-stretches-beyond-trumps-travel-ban\">who are affected by the policy\u003c/a> see a change, if any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary Cities \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal courts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/15/551397597/federal-court-says-trump-administration-can-t-deny-funds-to-sanctuary-cities\">widely\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565678707/enter-title\">rejected \u003c/a>the Justice Department’s attempts to withhold law enforcement grants from so-called sanctuary cities that limit their cooperation with immigration authorities. In April, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/712760676/trump-threatens-to-send-detained-immigrants-to-sanctuary-cities\">threatened to bus migrants from the border\u003c/a> and then release them in sanctuary cities. But so far, his administration has not acted on those threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum Crackdown \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House wants to discourage migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S., arguing that many are abusing generous asylum laws to live and work in the country until their cases are heard in immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have rejected some of the administration’s tactics, including an effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/669471110/federal-court-blocks-trump-administrations-asylum-ban\">deny asylum to any migrant who crossed the border illegally\u003c/a>. But the Justice Department has succeeded in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686466207/its-getting-harder-for-migrants-to-win-asylum-cases-lawyers-say\">making it harder to get asylum based on gang or domestic violence\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And the administration wants to amend \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/622678753/the-history-of-the-flores-settlement-and-its-effects-on-immigration\">a decades-old settlement called the Flores agreement\u003c/a> in order to hold migrant families in detention for longer than a few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these changes have stopped migrant families from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721616007/migrants-apprehended-at-southern-border-tops-100-000-for-second-consecutive-mont\">crossing the southern border in record numbers\u003c/a> to escape from poverty and violence in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Remain in Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration authorities have sent about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/09/721755716/trump-administrations-remain-in-mexico-program-tangles-legal-process\">5,000 thousand migrants back to Mexico\u003c/a> to wait for months until a U.S. immigration court decides their asylum cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court initially blocked the administration from sending asylum-seekers back to crime-ridden Mexican border towns where many are staying in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court’s injunction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/721293828/appeals-court-rules-trump-administration-can-keep-sending-asylum-seekers-to-mexi\">allowing the “Remain in Mexico” policy to continue\u003c/a> while the case plays out. Now the case goes back to the same judge in San Francisco, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/08/711265433/federal-judge-blocks-trump-administration-policy-of-sending-asylum-seekers-to-me\">said the policy lacked sufficient protections for asylum-seekers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Family Separation \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration’s “zero tolerance” policy was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610116389/transcript-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kellys-interview-with-npr\">intended to deter asylum-seekers\u003c/a> by separating migrant parents and children at the border — until Trump ended the policy under pressure last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge has ordered the administration to reunite nearly 3,000 children with their parents. The same judge has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/717380923/court-orders-administration-to-identify-separated-migrant-children-within-6-mont\">ordered the administration to identify what could be thousands of additional families\u003c/a> that were separated before the “zero tolerance” policy took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Wall \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After signing a spending bill to end the government shutdown in February, Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure billions of additional dollars for his signature immigration policy: the border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That emergency declaration is now being \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/695821740/16-states-sue-over-trumps-national-emergency-declaration\">challenged in court\u003c/a> by critics who say there is no emergency, and that the president is flouting the will of Congress in order to deliver on a key campaign promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have authorized more than $1.3 billion for 55 miles of steel fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Trump administration wants to spend an additional $6 billion from military construction and counter-drug accounts to add to that total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DACA\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s efforts to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, are stalled in court. That means \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca-profiles\">nearly 700,000 young immigrants\u003c/a> who were brought to the country illegally as children are still protected from deportation and allowed to work legally — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats and moderate Republicans are likely to insist on some relief for DACA recipients as part of any comprehensive immigration overhaul, while immigration hardliners are wary of granting “amnesty” or a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TPS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has moved to wind down Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190329_RS20844_40bba737bf5e4440ac7bebb19757db87fe994fa4.pdf\">more than 400,000 immigrants\u003c/a> from countries wracked by civil conflict or natural disasters.The immigrants are protected from deportation and allowed to work in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of legal challenges have been filed. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654264072/federal-judge-blocks-trump-from-removing-immigrants-from-four-countries\">blocked from ending TPS\u003c/a> for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan by a judge in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birthright Citizenship \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump threatened to end birthright citizenship, which is widely understood by legal scholarsto be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/662335612/legal-scholars-say-14th-amendment-doubt-trump-can-end-birthright-citizenship-wit\">guaranteed by the 14th Amendment\u003c/a>. 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He plans to meet with the Salvadoran president and the president-elect, as well as the U.S. ambassador and humanitarian and gang intervention advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, El Salvador, is afflicted with a high poverty rate and has long been one of the most violent countries in the world, with the gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18 exerting a alarming degree of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Newsom’s motorcade sped through the streets of El Salvador’s capital city towards the Metropolitan Cathedral, where he visited the tomb of Saint Oscar Romero, an archbishop known for his work fighting poverty and violence who was assassinated in the 1980 and is considered a civil rights hero. 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You don’t have to spend money militarizing your border, you don’t have to build a border wall. You spend a tenth of the money on stabilizing the community as opposed to this. That’s why I say it’s just manufactured, pure political theater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies in New York, said it’s appropriate for the governor to visit El Salvador given California’s demographics and progressive leanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has taken a different approach to all of its residents — which includes Salvadorans, who have come from there and have family there — than the federal government has,” Kerwin said. “You have to address root causes which are the conditions which are driving this, and you also have to create some opportunities for really desperate people to migrate legally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Hernandez and her granddaughter were unshed out of the cathedral when it was cleared for Newsom’s visit, but lingered near the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, 54, said she doesn’t have enough money to try to go to the United States but knows many people who have left because they can’t find work and are fleeing the violent conditions here. 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He plans to meet with the Salvadoran president and the president-elect, as well as the U.S. ambassador and humanitarian and gang intervention advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smallest and most densely populated country in Central America, El Salvador, is afflicted with a high poverty rate and has long been one of the most violent countries in the world, with the gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18 exerting a alarming degree of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Newsom’s motorcade sped through the streets of El Salvador’s capital city towards the Metropolitan Cathedral, where he visited the tomb of Saint Oscar Romero, an archbishop known for his work fighting poverty and violence who was assassinated in the 1980 and is considered a civil rights hero. The governor lit a candle alongside his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and Assemblywoman \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/wendy-carillo-california-legislator-salvadoran-trip/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wendy Carrillo\u003c/a> of Los Angeles, herself a Salvadoran immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt joined the church tour as an opportunity to share his concern about losing U.S. aid money — a resource he credits for helping decrease the level of violence in the country and for funding diversion programs for kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are grateful for the governor’s positions in defense of our people,” he said. “It’s important for us, for him to see the efforts we are trying, to make our city and country more secure and to make it so our people can find more opportunities here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom would not say if California would help fund programs in El Salvador, but stressed that partnership, trade and private investment are ways to help boost economic opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have human resources that can help with stabilizing this part of the world that we share so many individuals in common with,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics back home have said the governor should first focus on fixing the problems in California, including dirty water, flooding, fire damage and other challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And President Trump, during his border visit, emphasized the danger resulting when “rough, tough people” with criminal records seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Newsom, honestly, is living in a different world,” the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/on-aslyum-trump-says-gov-newsom-is-living-in-a-different-world/2019/04/05/fcbb39fb-4f07-4118-bd2c-bf7a01b2c07e_video.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c69303e4d859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president continued\u003c/a>. “That’s a very dangerous world he’s living in. And if he keeps living there? Lots of problems for the people of California. They don’t want that. They want to be secure. They want to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielding questions from reporters, Newsom defended his trip, saying it is his “responsibility” to understand what is happening because California is home to the largest community of Salvadorans outside of El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to end the ‘crisis’ on the border?” he said. “Stabilize these countries, create economic opportunity and you end the crisis. You don’t have to spend money militarizing your border, you don’t have to build a border wall. You spend a tenth of the money on stabilizing the community as opposed to this. That’s why I say it’s just manufactured, pure political theater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Kerwin, executive director of the Center for Migration Studies in New York, said it’s appropriate for the governor to visit El Salvador given California’s demographics and progressive leanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has taken a different approach to all of its residents — which includes Salvadorans, who have come from there and have family there — than the federal government has,” Kerwin said. “You have to address root causes which are the conditions which are driving this, and you also have to create some opportunities for really desperate people to migrate legally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosa Hernandez and her granddaughter were unshed out of the cathedral when it was cleared for Newsom’s visit, but lingered near the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, 54, said she doesn’t have enough money to try to go to the United States but knows many people who have left because they can’t find work and are fleeing the violent conditions here. 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"content": "\u003cp>Saúl Arzú picked his way through a double row of tents inside Juventud 2000, a makeshift migrant shelter in a gritty neighborhood of Tijuana, not far from the international border fence. He was looking for a quiet place to talk, but the din of dozens of migrant parents and children bounced off the corrugated steel roof and rang through the converted warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arzú, 31, has been living at the shelter for nearly three months, after arriving in this border city in late January. He hopes to win asylum in the United States. He said he left his home on the Atlantic coast of Honduras last October, when he was threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when President Trump has declared \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/04/us-aid-central-america-what-does-and-why-trump-cut/3340142002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a halt to U.S. aid\u003c/a> for the three countries of Central America’s Northern Triangle — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — and California Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-el-salvador-20190328-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> is traveling to El Salvador to learn about the root causes of migration, Arzú said the reasons he felt he had to leave Honduras are connected with U.S. policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arzú said he left home in the city of La Ceiba after gang members threatened his life. It’s a familiar story among people who have fled the homicide-plagued countries of the Northern Triangle. But Arzú said the widespread violence in Honduras ties directly back to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/07/crisis-of-honduras-democracy-has-roots-in-us-tacit-support-for-2009-coup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2009 military coup\u003c/a> that had the tacit support of the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This caravan is like karma, because they destabilized Honduras and people had to leave,” said Arzú. “It’s an ungovernable country. You can’t report crime to the police because the police will pass your information to the criminals and the criminals will find you. Organized crime and the police are good friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11738087 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36415_IMG_7937-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honduran asylum-seeker Saul Arzú makes his way through the tents at the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana on March 8, 2019. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roots of the Crisis\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a view \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/in-honduras-a-mess-helped-by-the-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared by some scholars\u003c/a>, who say the coup opened the way for greater lawlessness and the repression of dissent, including the assassination of opposition leaders and an internationally recognized environmentalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Saúl Arzú, who is seeking asylum in the U.S.']'This caravan is like karma, because they destabilized Honduras and people had to leave. It’s an ungovernable country.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dysfunction and corruption are rampant. Last fall, the brother of President Juan Orlando Hernández, himself a former congressman, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2018/11/26/dea-announces-arrest-former-honduran-congressman-and-brother-current\">arrested in Miami\u003c/a> on charges of running a major cocaine trafficking ring. And when researchers from the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., visited La Ceiba, Arzú’s hometown, in 2017, they found that the municipal \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/report_honduras_olson_final.pdf\">government had totally collapsed\u003c/a>, there was no electricity and employees had not been paid in eight months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/p/wha/rt/strat/\">U.S. aid programs\u003c/a> that Trump is cutting, nearly $500 million worth, were initiated by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. They have been aimed at deterring drug trafficking and migration by \u003ca href=\"https://www.wola.org/monitoring-assistance-central-america/\">strengthening the economies, governance and security\u003c/a> of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Most of the funds are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/world/americas/trump-central-america-aid.html\">channeled through non-governmental organizations.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made the move voicing frustration at continuing unauthorized migration, but analysts at the Migration Policy Institute and elsewhere say the long-term solution to Central American migration is to \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/policy-solutions-address-crisis-border-exist-require-will-staying-power\">stabilize the countries\u003c/a> people are leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Lack of Justice and Opportunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738088\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36416_IMG_7934-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honduran asylum-seeker Saul Arzú plays with a baseball at the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana on March 8, 2019. He said the lawlessness in Honduras that forced him to flee began with a 2009 military coup that had the tacit support of the U.S. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arzú said he worked as a fisherman. As he watched the political situation unravel, he dreamed of attending university to study political science. But he said he couldn’t afford the tuition and didn’t have the right political connections because he believes the government is corrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then last year Arzú said he was approached by members of the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 gang, who urged him to drive them across town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11703189' label='Daughter of Slain Environmentalist Connects Migrant Caravan to Honduran Government's Failures']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said I couldn’t do it,” he recounted. “Because if you work for them once, they won’t let you quit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the gang members followed him, but he got away. When he crossed paths with them a few days later, they threatened him, and Arzú said he knew he had to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a question of, ‘Oh, I hear the United States is beautiful.’ No,” he said, choking back emotion. “To leave the country where you’ve lived your whole life? It hits hard. You don’t want to cry. You don’t want to go. But you want to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he spoke, Arzú idly tossed a baseball from hand to hand. He looked around the spare but tidy shelter that is his temporary home. In a small kitchen, three women in hairnets shredded cabbage and carrots for the evening meal. Next to the rows of tents, kids and their parents lined up at a table for a children’s shoe giveaway, where they could try on donated sneakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11738089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11738089\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36418_IMG_7917-qut-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36418_IMG_7917-qut-800x602.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36418_IMG_7917-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36418_IMG_7917-qut-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36418_IMG_7917-qut-1200x903.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36418_IMG_7917-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36418_IMG_7917-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents and children look through donated shoes at the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana on March 8, 2019. Migrants from Central America are waiting at the shelter to apply for asylum in the United States. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He has so far spent five months in Mexico, working his way north, but he said he doesn’t feel safe here either, having been robbed more than once. In the U.S., he said, the justice system seems more intact than in Mexico or Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be killed anywhere,” said Arzú. “But if you’re killed in the United States, at least they would investigate. In Honduras? No. You’d just be a statistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting in Mexico\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, after a month’s wait, Arzú got his turn at the U.S. port of entry to ask for asylum. He said Customs and Border Protection officials kept him locked in a crowded underground cell with the air conditioning blasting for four days. He said Cell No. 31 had three metal bunks but contained 15 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were the worst four days of my life,” said Arzú. “They treated me like a dog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='migrant-caravan' label='KQED immigration coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an interview with a Customs and Border Protection agent, Arzú was returned to Tijuana to await his immigration court date in San Diego because of the Trump administration’s new Migrant Protection Protocols, commonly known as the “remain in Mexico” policy, for asylum-seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arzú said he keeps telephoning the U.S. legal aid groups on a list provided by border officials, but he hasn’t found anyone to help him with his case. More than 80 percent of asylum-seekers without legal representation lose their cases, while more than half of those with a lawyer win asylum, \u003ca href=\"https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/asylum/\">according to data analysis\u003c/a> by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday morning, Arzú will return to the border crossing and officials will drive him to the federal immigration courthouse in San Diego, where he’ll try to make his case to a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation as part of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/adelante/\">Adelante Latin America Reporting Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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