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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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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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For instance, people who were trafficked can apply for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-human-trafficking-other-crimes\">T visa\u003c/a>, and young people who have been abused, abandoned or neglected by a parent may apply for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/sij\">special immigrant juvenile status\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the proposed changes, Crow worries people may only be referred for asylum or withholding of removal proceedings — categories that have different standards and which aren't available to some people, including those who have previously been deported and then unlawfully reentered the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it released Trump's memo, the White House included \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-working-stop-abuse-asylum-system-address-root-causes-border-crisis/\">a sheet of statistics and arguments\u003c/a> to bolster its case. \"Our immigration system has reached a breaking point as we continue to see an overwhelming surge of migrants, with more than 100,000 arriving at our border in March alone,\" it states. \"As a result of loopholes in United States immigration law, migrants claiming fear are often released into communities across the United States, where they often remain indefinitely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also proposes regulations to require nearly all asylum applications to be decided in immigration court within 180 days of filing, not including appeals. 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"content": "\u003cp>Art and Spanish students at Washington High School are teaming up to design and write postcards for some of the thousands of migrant children in U.S. government custody, hoping it will bring a degree of comfort to kids who crossed the border on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karina Silvestro, 16, designed several postcards with black and white images of holding hands, which she said are meant to show unity and solidarity. As she edited her images to add an etched texture on a computer program, Silvestro said she tried to put herself in the shoes of the children who are far from loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling it could be a \"scary and tense situation,\" Silvestro said she thought the postcards were maybe \"something that I would like to receive or could keep close to me, something that could give me security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11733246 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35830_IMG_0530-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35830_IMG_0530-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35830_IMG_0530-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35830_IMG_0530-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35830_IMG_0530-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35830_IMG_0530-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anaya De Leon, a senior at Washington High School, shows a postcard she created in her digital imaging class on Feb. 13, 2019. De Leon designed it for migrant children who were separated from parents at the border and are now being held at shelters. \"They need somebody to speak up for them,\" she said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silvestro, whose mother came to the U.S. as a refugee from Nicaragua in the 1980s, finished her postcards by adding messages in Spanish. One says, \"You are welcome,\" and another, \"I'm with you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know people like my mother who basically had to leave everything and come to a place that was unfamiliar and probably scary for the first few months she was here,\" said Silvestro. \"I want these kids to know that there are people here who care for you and appreciate you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the 11,500 minors being held at government-run shelters nationwide were first apprehended by U.S. immigration authorities while traveling from Central America without a parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='migrant-children' label='More coverage of migrant children']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unaccompanied minors are spending an average of three months at the shelters before being released to parents or sponsors in the U.S., according to data for this fiscal year. While critics say it's detrimental for children to be held that long, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services says the speed of release depend on its work with other federal agencies to identify and run background checks on potential sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Washington High, teacher Barbara Boissevain assigned the postcard project to students in a digital imaging class. She was inspired by a 2015 exhibit by renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the former prison at Alcatraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ai Weiwei designed the installation about human rights and freedom of expression while he was under house arrest in Beijing. At the exhibit, visitors could write postcards addressed to political prisoners around the world as part of a campaign to free them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was just a beautiful experience,\" said Boissevain, a photographer and visual artist based in Palo Alto. \"To be able to communicate with somebody who is in solitary confinement, or they're cut off from their community, from their family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=”right” citation=\"Barbara Boissevain, Washington High School teacher\"]'I always want them to think of art as a very powerful tool in the world. And this is such a great example.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't until last year that Boissevain read a book by Ai Weiwei, \u003ca href=\"https://www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-yours-truly/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truly Yours,\u003c/a> and found out prisons were inundated by the postcards — and some of those detainees had been released. That's when she decided to try a similar project with her art students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I always want them to think of art as a very powerful tool in the world. And this is such a great example,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11733242 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35838_IMG_0515-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35838_IMG_0515-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35838_IMG_0515-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35838_IMG_0515-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35838_IMG_0515-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35838_IMG_0515-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postcards designed and written by students at Washington High School on Feb. 13, 2019. Teacher Barbara Boissevain plans to send more than 300 cards to shelters for unaccompanied minors in California and Texas. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boissevain said students decided who to create artwork for: While some chose to design postcards for victims of the recent California wildfires, others gravitated towards the plight of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kids identify with them because they are the same age,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"small\" align=”right” citation=\"Karina Silvestro, 16\"]'I want these kids to know that there are people here who care for you and appreciate you.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The diverse ethnic makeup of the high school played a role, too, Boissevain said, noting some of her students from Iraq and Afghanistan have experienced life as refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 1,900 students at Washington High School are overwhelmingly kids of color, with about half identifying as Asian and 23 percent as Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other postcards that students at Boissevain's class designed show birds flying out of a cage; a blossoming tree, with the words \"Stay Strong\" emblazoned in the middle; and the shapes of kids and adults — a family — holding hands with the word \"Together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help write messages on the back of cards for the Central American minors, Boissevain brought in students in a Spanish class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11733238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11733238\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35834_IMG_0502-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35834_IMG_0502-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35834_IMG_0502-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35834_IMG_0502-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35834_IMG_0502-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35834_IMG_0502-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spanish teacher Brandon Pierce translates notes for colleague Barbara Boissevain that his class wrote for unaccompanied minors. \"What was going on in their minds was very heartfelt and that's what ended up getting put down on paper,\" said Pierce of his students, some who are immigrants. \"Hopefully that makes a difference in somebody's day when they get to read this.\" \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getsa Jimenez, 15, wrote on a postcard: \"I know things don't look so great right now. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a sunny morning in the Contra Costa County city Pinole, Veronica Aguilar pushed a supermarket cart at a discount grocery store. Her 15-year-old son Vladimir trailed closely behind, scanning the aisles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Aguilar paused before shelves stocked with bags of red beans, she turned to ask her son if they should take some home. The shy teen answered with a quiet nod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This boy loves beans,\" Aguilar said with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until recently, something as routine as a grocery trip together seemed like a dream for Aguilar and Vladimir, who spent more than a year separated by international borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar, 36, was the first in her family to flee gang members in El Salvador in 2017, after they repeatedly threatened to kill her. Last fall, Vladimir also ran away from gang members with guns drawn at his doorstep. The family said it was the only way for him to escape being recruited by gangs and survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, after months of anxiety, Aguilar and her son are living together at a home in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel so happy that he's with me again and that I can take care of him,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since October, U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended nearly 27,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border illegally, mostly from Central America. Another 2,000 minors traveling on their own have arrived in the U.S. through ports of entry, according to the most recent government \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">figures\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vladimir's journey — aided by attorneys, a congresswoman and others — reflects some of the perils minors without such luck or resources face in their bid to seek asylum in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Vladimir's Journey North\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last October, Vladimir and his grandmother Luci Diaz hopped on a bus and left their town north of San Salvador, which Diaz described as a \"red zone for gangs.\" Aguilar had asked Diaz, 55, to accompany Vladimir and keep the boy safe on the grueling trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In southern Mexico, the pair joined a loosely-organized caravan of about 7,000 Central Americans, many of them women and children, heading to the U.S. border. Ahead of the midterm elections, the caravan became a frequent target for President Trump, who called it \"an assault on our country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11710236,news_11701750 label=\"The full story of Vladimir's journey north\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Vladimir and Diaz caught rides on trucks when they could and walked long stretches of Mexican roads. Diaz had toenails fall off after her sneakers broke during the journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710236/bay-area-asylum-seeker-anxious-as-grandmother-escorts-teen-son-to-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nervously followed\u003c/a> her son and mother's progress from the Bay Area, checking her phone often for any updates. She worried that the caravan would be turned away at the U.S. border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a difficult road, and it hurts to know that so many are suffering, walking so much,” said Aguilar, who has applied for asylum protections in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Vladimir and Diaz reached Tijuana, as protests and clashes erupted over the caravan's arrival. But Diaz had to return to El Salvador to care for her two other grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She decided Vladimir would be safer at a youth shelter, with access to immigration attorneys who could help him prepare his claim. A day before she left, she visited Vladimir at the shelter to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember I love you,” she told Vladimir as she hugged him close. “I brought you here not to abandon you, but to make sure you have a future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Diaz left in tears, Vladimir found himself on his own, in a city he didn't know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll be difficult because I don’t know what’s going to happen, if I’ll even be able to cross the border or not,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crossing Into the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the Tijuana-San Diego border crossing, hundreds of migrants from around the world huddled every morning, waiting for their turn to ask U.S. officials for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing wait list at the El Chaparral pedestrian crossing had 4,200 names on it, with asylum seekers expecting to linger for months before being able to see U.S. officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the youth shelter where Vladimir was staying, the advice from pro bono attorneys was to avoid writing their name on that list. The lawyers worried Mexican immigration officials would detain the minors, said Lindsay Toczylowski, an attorney who met Vladimir in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11731848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir, center, walks down the stairs of a shelter in Tijuana for migrant minors on Nov. 20, 2018.\u003cbr>Vladimir traveled on a migrant caravan to Tijuana with his grandmother where he plans to enter the U.S. and join up with his mother who is in the San Francisco Bay Area. His grandmother will return to El Salvador. \u003ccite>(David Maung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The night before Thanksgiving, Toczylowski accompanied Vladimir and other minors to request asylum at El Chaparral. As they walked on the pedestrian bridge leading to the border crossing, Mexican immigration authorities stopped them and detained Vladimir and another minor, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the shelter in Tijuana for minors intervened, and Vladimir was released several days later, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said in a statement the agency processes \"all unaccompanied alien children who present themselves at and between the ports of entry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The safety of children in our custody is of paramount concern,\" the CBP spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the agency has also stated that the number of asylum seekers they process daily at ports of entry depends on detention space in their facilities, translation requirements and other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 1, a few days after he was released, Toczylowski again accompanied Vladimir as he tried to present Vladimir for asylum. This time, they took a taxi from Tijuana 20 miles east to the Otay Mesa border crossing, a smaller port of entry than Tijuana's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toczylowski feared CBP officials at Otay Mesa would not accept Vladimir. But she\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> knew U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, would be touring the border there, and she timed their arrival to coincide with the congresswoman.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was probably impossible for us to present anyone (for asylum) without a member of Congress there,\" said Toczylowski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jayapal did not immediately identify herself before border officials, Toczylowski pleaded with\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a CBP supervisor to process Vladimir for asylum. But she said the supervisor kept saying no because the facilities were at capacity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He kept telling us we needed to vacate the premises and that we would get in trouble if we continued to loiter there,\" Toczylowski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's when Jayapal walked up to the CBP supervisor and asked what he meant when he said their facilities were at capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The CBP supervisor said, 'Ma'am, you need to step back. I don't need to answer that question,' and (Rep. Jayapal) said 'No. I am a member of Congress and in fact you do need to answer that question because we fund your agency,'\" Toczylowski recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back and forth continued until the CBP supervisor relented and took Vladimir for processing, said Toczylowski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many ways, he was really, really lucky because he had lawyers who were volunteering and who were there to fight for him,\" she said. \"It's like winning the lottery that he also had Rep. Jayapal there that day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toczylowski said she still gets text messages from other unaccompanied minors who arrived with the caravan in Tijuana last winter, but who have not been able to request asylum from U.S. officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Mother and Son Reunite\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After being held by border officials, Vladimir was transferred to a shelter that holds about 1,600 unaccompanied teens in South Florida. He was there for two months before being released to his mother in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, approximately 11,500 unaccompanied minors are living in shelters that are run or contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, unaccompanied minors spend three months at ORR shelters before they are released to family members and other sponsors in the U.S. to await immigration hearings, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR is unable to release minors immediately because they must work with other federal agencies to verify the identity of sponsors, according to the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/unaccompanied-alien-children-frequently-asked-questions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back at the year that she was separated from her son, Veronica Aguilar feels thankful to the people who helped him get across the U.S. border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They pushed for his right to seek asylum,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11731843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Aguilar and son Vladimir shop for groceries in Pinole. A married couple in that city opened their home to Aguilar months ago, and have also taken in Vladimir. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Challenges Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like most teenagers, Vladimir spends a lot of time on his phone. That's how he stays in touch with other teens he met at the government-run \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/694138106/inside-the-largest-and-most-controversial-shelter-for-migrant-children-in-the-u-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homestead shelter\u003c/a> outside Miami. But he doesn't elaborate on anything else about the two months he spent there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want to talk about it,\" Vladimir said flatly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his mom said when they would talk on the phone while he was at the shelter, he was depressed. Now, she still sees pain inside him. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She suspects those emotions are similar to what she felt after she was locked up for seven months by immigration authorities when she applied for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want him as a young person to live with that his whole life,\" said Aguilar, adding that she plans to find a psychologist he can talk to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vladimir said he is also a little nervous about his new high school in Pinole. He only speaks Spanish and all of his classes are in English. But he's excited to get out of the house and meet people his age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'll see what happens,\" Vladimir said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through it all, Aguilar said she has been amazed by the generosity of strangers. She and Vladimir are staying with a married couple who opened up their home and sponsored her so she could be released from an immigrant detention facility in Southern California last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said Ann and Kent Moriarty, a former middle school teacher and a mechanical engineer, have supported her like family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've helped me so much,\" she said. \"It's really been a blessing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Aguilar also received an unexpected present in the mail: a $100 dollar gift card from a professor in Ventura County who heard about her story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The envelope also included a note welcoming Vladimir to the U.S. Aguilar read it aloud to him, her voice breaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm also an immigrant who came here looking for a better life,\" the professor said in her note. \"Everything is possible. Good luck.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Aguilar slowly folded the piece of paper back in the envelope, she let out a long sigh. She wondered aloud how strangers could offer help like that. Then her eyes became resolute once again. She looked up at her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is motivation to keep fighting,\" she told him.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Vladimir and Diaz caught rides on trucks when they could and walked long stretches of Mexican roads. Diaz had toenails fall off after her sneakers broke during the journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710236/bay-area-asylum-seeker-anxious-as-grandmother-escorts-teen-son-to-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nervously followed\u003c/a> her son and mother's progress from the Bay Area, checking her phone often for any updates. She worried that the caravan would be turned away at the U.S. border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such a difficult road, and it hurts to know that so many are suffering, walking so much,” said Aguilar, who has applied for asylum protections in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Vladimir and Diaz reached Tijuana, as protests and clashes erupted over the caravan's arrival. But Diaz had to return to El Salvador to care for her two other grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She decided Vladimir would be safer at a youth shelter, with access to immigration attorneys who could help him prepare his claim. A day before she left, she visited Vladimir at the shelter to say goodbye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember I love you,” she told Vladimir as she hugged him close. “I brought you here not to abandon you, but to make sure you have a future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Diaz left in tears, Vladimir found himself on his own, in a city he didn't know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll be difficult because I don’t know what’s going to happen, if I’ll even be able to cross the border or not,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crossing Into the U.S.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the Tijuana-San Diego border crossing, hundreds of migrants from around the world huddled every morning, waiting for their turn to ask U.S. officials for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing wait list at the El Chaparral pedestrian crossing had 4,200 names on it, with asylum seekers expecting to linger for months before being able to see U.S. officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the youth shelter where Vladimir was staying, the advice from pro bono attorneys was to avoid writing their name on that list. The lawyers worried Mexican immigration officials would detain the minors, said Lindsay Toczylowski, an attorney who met Vladimir in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11731848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1198\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS34153_grandma-FINAL-05-qut-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir, center, walks down the stairs of a shelter in Tijuana for migrant minors on Nov. 20, 2018.\u003cbr>Vladimir traveled on a migrant caravan to Tijuana with his grandmother where he plans to enter the U.S. and join up with his mother who is in the San Francisco Bay Area. His grandmother will return to El Salvador. \u003ccite>(David Maung)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The night before Thanksgiving, Toczylowski accompanied Vladimir and other minors to request asylum at El Chaparral. As they walked on the pedestrian bridge leading to the border crossing, Mexican immigration authorities stopped them and detained Vladimir and another minor, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the shelter in Tijuana for minors intervened, and Vladimir was released several days later, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said in a statement the agency processes \"all unaccompanied alien children who present themselves at and between the ports of entry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The safety of children in our custody is of paramount concern,\" the CBP spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the agency has also stated that the number of asylum seekers they process daily at ports of entry depends on detention space in their facilities, translation requirements and other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 1, a few days after he was released, Toczylowski again accompanied Vladimir as he tried to present Vladimir for asylum. This time, they took a taxi from Tijuana 20 miles east to the Otay Mesa border crossing, a smaller port of entry than Tijuana's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toczylowski feared CBP officials at Otay Mesa would not accept Vladimir. But she\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> knew U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, would be touring the border there, and she timed their arrival to coincide with the congresswoman.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was probably impossible for us to present anyone (for asylum) without a member of Congress there,\" said Toczylowski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jayapal did not immediately identify herself before border officials, Toczylowski pleaded with\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a CBP supervisor to process Vladimir for asylum. But she said the supervisor kept saying no because the facilities were at capacity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He kept telling us we needed to vacate the premises and that we would get in trouble if we continued to loiter there,\" Toczylowski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's when Jayapal walked up to the CBP supervisor and asked what he meant when he said their facilities were at capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The CBP supervisor said, 'Ma'am, you need to step back. I don't need to answer that question,' and (Rep. Jayapal) said 'No. I am a member of Congress and in fact you do need to answer that question because we fund your agency,'\" Toczylowski recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back and forth continued until the CBP supervisor relented and took Vladimir for processing, said Toczylowski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many ways, he was really, really lucky because he had lawyers who were volunteering and who were there to fight for him,\" she said. \"It's like winning the lottery that he also had Rep. Jayapal there that day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toczylowski said she still gets text messages from other unaccompanied minors who arrived with the caravan in Tijuana last winter, but who have not been able to request asylum from U.S. officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Mother and Son Reunite\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After being held by border officials, Vladimir was transferred to a shelter that holds about 1,600 unaccompanied teens in South Florida. He was there for two months before being released to his mother in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, approximately 11,500 unaccompanied minors are living in shelters that are run or contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, unaccompanied minors spend three months at ORR shelters before they are released to family members and other sponsors in the U.S. to await immigration hearings, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR is unable to release minors immediately because they must work with other federal agencies to verify the identity of sponsors, according to the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/unaccompanied-alien-children-frequently-asked-questions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back at the year that she was separated from her son, Veronica Aguilar feels thankful to the people who helped him get across the U.S. border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They pushed for his right to seek asylum,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11731843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35736_IMG_0572-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Aguilar and son Vladimir shop for groceries in Pinole. A married couple in that city opened their home to Aguilar months ago, and have also taken in Vladimir. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Challenges Ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like most teenagers, Vladimir spends a lot of time on his phone. That's how he stays in touch with other teens he met at the government-run \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/694138106/inside-the-largest-and-most-controversial-shelter-for-migrant-children-in-the-u-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homestead shelter\u003c/a> outside Miami. But he doesn't elaborate on anything else about the two months he spent there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want to talk about it,\" Vladimir said flatly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his mom said when they would talk on the phone while he was at the shelter, he was depressed. 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She and Vladimir are staying with a married couple who opened up their home and sponsored her so she could be released from an immigrant detention facility in Southern California last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said Ann and Kent Moriarty, a former middle school teacher and a mechanical engineer, have supported her like family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've helped me so much,\" she said. \"It's really been a blessing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Aguilar also received an unexpected present in the mail: a $100 dollar gift card from a professor in Ventura County who heard about her story. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The envelope also included a note welcoming Vladimir to the U.S. Aguilar read it aloud to him, her voice breaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm also an immigrant who came here looking for a better life,\" the professor said in her note. \"Everything is possible. Good luck.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Aguilar slowly folded the piece of paper back in the envelope, she let out a long sigh. 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He said five minutes went by before \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-hunger-strike-el-paso/\">guards picked up Singh and carried him away\u003c/a>. They hadn't even let him use a wheelchair, Craig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh, 21, and his cousin, 22, the last remaining hunger strikers of the original group, are hoping to reach an uncle in California’s Central Valley. They are among thousands of Indians of the Sikh faith who have come to the U.S. and Canada in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cousins have been detained for more than six months. An immigration judge denied their release. They're refusing food in a plea for better treatment and freedom, said Craig's partner, Margaret Brown Vega, who also makes weekly visits to immigrants in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11731485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Brown Vega (R) and Jennifer Apodaca prepare for a visit March 3 with Indian asylum-seekers who have been on a hunger strike for more than two months at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement El Paso Processing Center in Texas. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of the only options people have available to them to basically protest their conditions,\" Brown Vega said. \"I think this particular group of men found it in themselves to do it for much longer than most people do, but we hear of pretty constant hunger strikes going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown Vega and Craig said they learned of this hunger strike, and several previous ones, from other ICE detainees they’ve visited who were worried about the welfare of the hunger strikers and passed along their names and alien numbers. Without that communication the protests would be all but invisible, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726485/ice-detainees-continue-hunger-strike-at-yuba-county-jail\">KQED reported on a hunger strike\u003c/a> by ICE detainees at the Yuba County Jail last month. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/facilityInspections/elPasoSPC_SIS_12-13-2018.pdf\">ICE inspection report from December 2018\u003c/a> documented 25 hunger strikes at the El Paso facility alone in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leticia Zamarripa, a spokeswoman for ICE in El Paso, confirmed that two Indians remained on hunger strike in El Paso, as well as seven other people in ICE custody around the country — including two in San Diego, three in Atlanta, one in Miami and one in Seattle — as of March 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No hunger strikers are being fed nonconsensually; on-site ICE medical staff continue to closely monitor the health and vital signs of all the hunger strikers to insure they continue to receive proper medical care,\" she said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731487\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11731487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-1020x2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-1020x2011.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-160x315.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-800x1577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-609x1200.jpg 609w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amrit Singh, of Modesto, said he has traveled to Texas seven times to visit his two nephews, who have been waging a hunger strike for more than two months at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement El Paso Processing Center in Texas. He says he has been allowed to actually visit them only once. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amrit Singh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruby Kaur, a Michigan-based immigration lawyer representing two of the men, said the Sikh detainees have been called names, dragged on the ground and roughly force-fed against their will. ICE stopped force-feeding the men in the face of a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The physical abuse, the verbal abuse and psychological. That's not correct. That’s not right,\" Kaur said. \"That violates the basic human right that every individual has.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his home in Modesto, California, Amrit Singh said he speaks to his nephews every day or two, but their voices grow weaker every time. He said they were moved from the infirmary at the detention center back into the general barracks on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he has traveled to El Paso seven times but was allowed to see them only once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m just, day by day, I feel like I am helpless. I can't do anything for them,\" Singh said of his nephews, who lived in the same household with him when they were children in Punjab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in the dark parking lot outside the ICE facility in El Paso, Brown Vega said the Sikh men should be released from custody immediately, so that they can obtain proper medical care and pursue their asylum cases at liberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being in these facilities for many people, it’s like slow death,\" she said. \"But in this case, it really might be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Soon he became weak and it was impossible for him to hold up his head,\" Craig said, just minutes after leaving the El Paso facility. \"It was difficult for him to even process the words we were relaying to him. ... He tried to get up and he took a few steps and he just collapsed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in the night air in a parking lot outside the detention center, Craig was seething. He said five minutes went by before \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/ice-hunger-strike-el-paso/\">guards picked up Singh and carried him away\u003c/a>. They hadn't even let him use a wheelchair, Craig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh, 21, and his cousin, 22, the last remaining hunger strikers of the original group, are hoping to reach an uncle in California’s Central Valley. They are among thousands of Indians of the Sikh faith who have come to the U.S. and Canada in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cousins have been detained for more than six months. An immigration judge denied their release. They're refusing food in a plea for better treatment and freedom, said Craig's partner, Margaret Brown Vega, who also makes weekly visits to immigrants in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731485\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-11731485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35713_IMG_3226.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Brown Vega (R) and Jennifer Apodaca prepare for a visit March 3 with Indian asylum-seekers who have been on a hunger strike for more than two months at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement El Paso Processing Center in Texas. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of the only options people have available to them to basically protest their conditions,\" Brown Vega said. \"I think this particular group of men found it in themselves to do it for much longer than most people do, but we hear of pretty constant hunger strikes going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown Vega and Craig said they learned of this hunger strike, and several previous ones, from other ICE detainees they’ve visited who were worried about the welfare of the hunger strikers and passed along their names and alien numbers. Without that communication the protests would be all but invisible, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726485/ice-detainees-continue-hunger-strike-at-yuba-county-jail\">KQED reported on a hunger strike\u003c/a> by ICE detainees at the Yuba County Jail last month. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/facilityInspections/elPasoSPC_SIS_12-13-2018.pdf\">ICE inspection report from December 2018\u003c/a> documented 25 hunger strikes at the El Paso facility alone in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leticia Zamarripa, a spokeswoman for ICE in El Paso, confirmed that two Indians remained on hunger strike in El Paso, as well as seven other people in ICE custody around the country — including two in San Diego, three in Atlanta, one in Miami and one in Seattle — as of March 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No hunger strikers are being fed nonconsensually; on-site ICE medical staff continue to closely monitor the health and vital signs of all the hunger strikers to insure they continue to receive proper medical care,\" she said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11731487\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11731487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-1020x2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-1020x2011.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-160x315.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-800x1577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851-609x1200.jpg 609w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS35714_IMG_7851.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amrit Singh, of Modesto, said he has traveled to Texas seven times to visit his two nephews, who have been waging a hunger strike for more than two months at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement El Paso Processing Center in Texas. He says he has been allowed to actually visit them only once. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amrit Singh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruby Kaur, a Michigan-based immigration lawyer representing two of the men, said the Sikh detainees have been called names, dragged on the ground and roughly force-fed against their will. ICE stopped force-feeding the men in the face of a legal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The physical abuse, the verbal abuse and psychological. That's not correct. That’s not right,\" Kaur said. \"That violates the basic human right that every individual has.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his home in Modesto, California, Amrit Singh said he speaks to his nephews every day or two, but their voices grow weaker every time. 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"content": "\u003cp>As local officials on the Texas-Mexico border scramble to accommodate thousands of recent migrants from Central America and beyond, they are bracing for the U.S. to expand its “Remain in Mexico” policy, which could send many more people back across the border to wait while their asylum claims are processed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy, which is already in force at the Tijuana-San Diego border, has officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua concerned that they can’t handle the coming waves of migrants. Since late October 2018, more than 8,000 migrants have arrived in Juarez, many coming from Central America, Cuba, Russia and countries in Africa, including Angola and Cameroon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t agree with this program. Without it, we have enough problems,” said Ramon Galindo, sub-secretary of social development for Chihuahua’s northern region. “If they use Mexico as a hotel for migrants, it’s going to create a bigger problem than we have now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo was one of several state and local leaders who met on Friday with Customs and Border Protection and other U.S. immigration officials at the Mexican Consulate in El Paso about the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past few weeks, officials have been attending meetings like these while maintaining a local sports arena-turned-shelter for hundreds of migrants waiting to ask for asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In spite of the fact that it has been implemented in Tijuana, we still do not have information from the Mexican federal government or U.S. authorities about how this program will work,” said Enrique Valenzuela, general coordinator with the state population agency COESPO. “I believe that’s because maybe (Mexico’s) federal government maybe does not have clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official with Mexico’s federal immigration agency, Instituto Nacional de Migracion, declined to respond to questions about negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico concerning the program and its expansion because he was not authorized to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730979\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_kids-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This basketball court at a sports arena in Juarez has become a resting place for nearly 500 migrants from Cuba, Russia and countries in Central America and Africa. Many of the migrants have children with them. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'No Money, No Resources'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy began in late January in Tijuana, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/world/americas/mexico-migration-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times\u003c/a> has reported that at least 120 migrants have been returned to await their first date in U.S. immigration court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Juarez had been told the program would begin there as early as last Friday. However, in a conference call that day, senior DHS officials told reporters that the program would not immediately begin but that the number of migrants returned to Mexico for processing would “grow exponentially.” The officials also did not say when or how the program would expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Ramon Galindo, sub-secretary of social development for Chihuahua’s northern region\"]\"If they use Mexico as a hotel for migrants, it’s going to create a bigger problem than we have now.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chihuahua officials are worried that communities along the border will have to deal with the return of migrants without federal help from either country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not know of any budget being assigned to this issue,” Valenzuela said. “We do not have the money, we do not have the resources. 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We can’t get back in.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials say migrants arriving in Juarez tell them they heard it would be easier to cross there than in Tijuana, where thousands of migrants, some traveling in groups or caravans, have arrived in recent months. But officials say that’s not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of families apprehended in the El Paso sector has increased 1,689 percent from last year — the greatest shift of any area along the southern border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11730980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11730980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03062019_Darwin-3-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darwin Oporta and Raquel Picado Al Faro rest on their mats at the Gimnasio del Colegio de Bachilleres, a sports arena recently converted into a shelter for migrants in Juárez. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Trump administration expands \"Remain in Mexico\" to other border crossings as planned, Pinto said more potential clients will be pushed back into Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be extremely difficult for many Central American asylum-seekers, who don’t have any resources or are homeless in Mexico, to find and keep a U.S. immigration attorney to win their case, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717074/asylum-seekers-in-california-wait-for-their-day-in-immigration-court\">Asylum-Seekers in California Wait for Their Day in Immigration Court\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11717074/asylum-seekers-in-california-wait-for-their-day-in-immigration-court\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/RS34142_chaparral-FINAL-11-e1547066130744-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice will defend the policy in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Congress has explicitly authorized the Department of Homeland Security to return aliens arriving from a contiguous foreign territory to that territory during that alien’s immigration court proceedings,” said Steven Stafford, a DOJ spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, migrants seeking asylum could wait in the U.S. for their claims to be resolved by an immigration judge, which can take years due the severe court backlog of more than 760,000 active cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the new policy aims to discourage illegal immigration by removing the “key incentive” of being allowed into the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aliens trying to game the system to get into our country illegally will no longer be able to disappear into the United States, where many skip their court dates,” said Nielsen while announcing the new policy in December. “Instead, they will wait for an immigration court decision while they are in Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a DHS official said \"Remain in Mexico\" would be expanded to ports of entry in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s and 2000s, the majority of those arrested by the Border Patrol along the southern border were men from Mexico, who authorities could easily deport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Central American families and unaccompanied children have become a growing share of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrests by the Border Patrol\u003c/a>. From October through December 2018, families and unaccompanied minors represented almost 60 percent of apprehensions along the border with Mexico. Many of them say they are fleeing violence in their home countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718987/thousands-more-migrant-children-may-have-been-separated-from-families\">Thousands More Migrant Children May Have Been Separated From Families\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718987/thousands-more-migrant-children-may-have-been-separated-from-families\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/GettyImages-1026536026-e1547762507389.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit says that \"Remain in Mexico\" is exposing asylum-seekers to greater danger in Mexican border cities that are among the most violent in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows Tijuana had the highest number of homicides in Mexico in 2017 and 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Asylum-seekers at the border are fleeing horrendous conditions in their home countries and they have the right under our law and international law to seek protection and refuge in the United States,” said Pinto. “And by not allowing them to do so we are endangering their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Even as the Trump administration ramps up a new policy forcing asylum-seekers to return to Mexico while their cases move through U.S. courts, immigration judges and attorneys say they’ve received scant information about how the dramatic change will be implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a dozen asylum-seekers had been returned to Tijuana as of late last week under the policy, known informally as “Remain in Mexico.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigration lawyers question whether the administration has a reliable system to notify migrants — who are often in temporary shelters and lack a fixed address — of their court dates. And the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, Ashley Tabaddor, said ensuring asylum-seekers in Mexico are informed of hearings is a \"potential issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tabaddor said she received no advance notice of the new system from the Department of Justice, which is in charge of immigration courts. Instead, Tabaddor, an immigration judge in Los Angeles, one of the nation's busiest courts, learned about the changes from reading the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'“It would have been nice if the department had told us judges in a formal way what’s happening.'\u003ccite>Ashley Tabaddor, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It would have been nice if the department had told us judges in a formal way what’s happening so that at least we are aware of it before it becomes public,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy, which the administration has dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/01/24/migrant-protection-protocols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Migrant Protection Protocols\u003c/a>, or MPP, is so far only in place at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, south of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Department of Homeland Security say before asylum-seekers are returned to Mexico they are given an “individualized notice” with a court date, so they know when to return to the border crossing. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will then transport them to immigration court in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the immigration court system, known as the Executive Office for Immigration Review, made its computerized scheduling system accessible to DHS officials, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, allowing them to set court dates for people being sent back to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, immigration agents did not have such access to court schedules. So they gave migrants a Notice to Appear, which either included a “placeholder” date or simply said that the court date was “to be set.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals would then receive a second notice in the mail with a legitimate court date. Or they could call a court hotline to find out when to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714240/new-policy-adds-to-complexity-for-migrants-in-mexico-seeking-u-s-asylum\">New Policy Adds to Complexity for Migrants in Mexico Seeking U.S. Asylum\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714240/new-policy-adds-to-complexity-for-migrants-in-mexico-seeking-u-s-asylum\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34155_Nolvia-Romero-FINAL-01-qut-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kate Mahoney, an immigration attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, is skeptical that U.S. officials can now reliably inform migrants in Mexico of court appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How is the government possibly going to notify people of their new hearing dates if they're homeless?” Mahoney asked. “Maybe they don't have a working telephone. 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