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So our goal was to change that and say, 'This time we are going to be first,' \" Mejia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the group in Tijuana include Honduran, Guatemalan, Nicaraguan and Salvadoran men and women, including transgender men and women, and also a handful of children. They are weeks ahead of the thousands who are on foot; the largest group of migrants is in Guadalajara, Mexico — nearly 1,400 miles south of Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most plan to use their status as members of a persecuted class to request asylum in the U.S. as early as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are fleeing a country where there's a lot of crime against us,\" an unidentified transgender woman told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LGBT migrants gravitated toward one another within the caravan and began organizing en route. 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We did not contact them; they learned from our group thanks to the media and decided to help us,\" Mejia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday the group arrived at an upscale neighborhood called Coronado in Playas de Tijuana just a few miles from the San Diego port of entry. They were dropped off in the tony enclave in small groups by Mexican immigration officials who had been alerted of the migrants' arrival in nearby Mexicali. But upon their arrival they were met with anger from local residents who said they should have been warned by local authorities that LGBT people would be renting the four-bedroom house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a peaceful neighborhood and we don't want any trouble,\" Jose Roberto Martinez told Mejia. He said he lived in the neighborhood and that families in the area had survived terrible violence that plagued the region in the early 2000s — a result of the vicious drug wars in Tijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We aren't safe here,\" a woman who lives in the neighborhood said. \"There could be someone within your group that could hurt us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another woman demanded to know how the group had come up with the money to pay the rental fee for the expensive house. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of transgender women and gay men in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/migrant-caravan/\">caravan moving through Mexico\u003c/a> with hopes of seeking asylum in the United States have banded together for protection — not from the uncertainty of a journey fraught with danger from the gangs who prey on migrants, but from their fellow travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleeing violence and discrimination back home because of their gender identity or sexual orientation, these LGBTQ migrants have found the journey north to be just as threatening amid catcalls and even physical abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'In my country there is violence, a lack of work and opportunities. In the caravan there is also violence — against the LGBTQ community.'\u003ccite> Loly Mendez,\u003cbr>\nTransgender woman from El Salvador\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Sweet little thing!\" ''Baby, where you going?\" ''How much do you charge?\" These all-too-familiar jeers are spewed at them as they make their way with the caravan of several thousand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loly Mendez, a 28-year-old who began transitioning to a woman in her native El Salvador, knows all too well the dangers her fellow transgender migrants faced back home: Her best friend, also a transgender woman, was murdered for doing the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Loly herself began getting threats — \"that if my breasts were going to grow, they would cut them off,\" she said. They were always anonymously delivered, which only made her more fearful and finally drove her to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my country there is violence, a lack of work and opportunities,\" said Loly, who like many of the transgender women in the group preferred using only her first name. \"In the caravan there is also violence — against the LGBTQ community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706014\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11706014 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208.jpg 3000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of an LGBT group traveling with the other Central American migrant caravan wait for a ride on Nov. 1, 2018, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Loly linked up with the caravan in Tapachula, in southern Mexico, and hopes to work in the United States and save up to start a beauty products company — perhaps in Los Angeles or New York. It's something she has planned for a long time, all the way down to the business logo, but she's never had the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am going to a country where I know I will achieve my dreams,\" Loly said hopefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports are common in much of Central America of LGBTQ people being murdered, assaulted and discriminated against, due to their gender identity or sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting U.S. asylum is difficult even with proof someone has been the victim of persecution for being transgender, said Lynly Egyes, director of litigation at the \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It often takes days or weeks for transgender immigrants to get a hearing before an asylum officer. If they are allowed to move forward in the process, many are traumatized and struggle to tell their story, Egyes said. They are also much less likely to be granted asylum without a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a horrifying process, and not everybody makes it through,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11706013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the LGBTQ community split from a caravan of Central American migrants heading to the U.S. (L-R, top to bottom) Honduran Mariela Ordonez, 22; Honduran Nati Venegas, 16; Salvadoran Britany Rachel, 36; Honduran Joana Stefani, 27; Honduran Alixon Maricela Rivera, 19; Honduran Lady Mejia, 23; Honduran Teresa Perez, 20; and Nicaraguan Sinai Cortez, 19, pose at a house used as shelter on Nov. 12, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the migrants have said they joined the caravan because it offered safety in numbers. The 50 or so LGBTQ migrants traveling together, most of them in their 20s but some as young as 17 or as old as 60, say they, too, banded together for safety — a sort of caravan within the caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sticking out in their bright-colored clothing and makeup, the group has suffered verbal harassment, especially from men, and has been the victim of robbery and other aggressions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent day as they walked in a row on the highway to Isla, in the Mexican Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, a group of fellow migrants passed by on a flatbed truck and showered them with water, oranges, rinds and other refuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearful of being attacked more violently or sexually assaulted, they stick by each other's sides 24 hours a day, walking and sleeping in a group and even using the buddy system for going to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Matias Romero, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, rather than sleep outdoors they took over an abandoned hotel damaged in last year's deadly earthquake. Dirty, windowless and with no electricity or running water, it was nonetheless a place to have a roof over their heads and be safe. They bathed by the light of a small lantern, dressed themselves and applied makeup as dozens of men milled about outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each night they sift through piles of donated clothing to try to look as sharp as possible. And they face a dilemma: Where to dress and relieve themselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have problems when it comes time to go to the bathroom,\" said Nakai Flotte, a transgender woman and activist. \"We bathe in the men's, sometimes in the women's, but it's difficult. There isn't one for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flotte was accompanying the migrants to provide support and information about making asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. \"should take into account their condition of vulnerability and violence,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a decision by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions this year to deny asylum to victims of domestic and gang violence could also have a negative impact on transgender women and men because many are victims of gang violence who are targeted for being transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know it will be difficult to win asylum,\" said Alexa Amaya, a 24-year-old from Honduras, \"but we have to make the attempt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11706015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the LGBTQ community arrive at the Diversidad Migrante NGO headquarters, which they will use as shelter, on Nov. 11, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The caravan has traveled more than 1,000 miles in the month since its initial participants set out from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. As it traverses Mexico's central highlands, it's still about the same distance from its goal of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. It's unclear how many will make it. A similar caravan earlier this year fizzled to just about 200 who reached the U.S. frontier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the trek has been on foot, but hitching rides in pickup trucks, minibuses and tractor-trailers has been crucial lately, especially on days when they travel 100 miles or more. For the LGBTQ group, it's been tougher to find those rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A taxi driver kicked us out of his car,\" said Lady Perez, a 23-year-old from Honduras, adding that sometimes truck drivers who often transport migrants for a small fee have doubled or tripled the price for her group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady began identifying as transgender at age 5, and her father ultimately disowned her. She was subjected to insults and beatings, her boyfriend was killed and she was warned to leave Honduras or else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In our country the rights of the LGBTQ community are not respected, and anti-social groups take advantage of that,\" Lady said.\u003cbr>\nWalking on the highway in a black miniskirt, red lipstick and black eyeliner, she said many men in the caravan have been harassing her and the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have denigrated us. Supposedly you're emigrating from your country because of the violence, the discrimination, the homophobia, and it turns out that in the very caravan you face this kind of violence,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of the near-constant harassment, march organizers and human rights workers have sought to provide the group some security in the form of two men in green vests who travel with them and try to ward off any attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the verbal harassment doesn't cross the line, \"we feel protected,\" Loly said. \"If someone does cross the line, human rights is with us to protect us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Astrid Galvan in Phoenix contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my country there is violence, a lack of work and opportunities,\" said Loly, who like many of the transgender women in the group preferred using only her first name. \"In the caravan there is also violence — against the LGBTQ community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706014\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 3000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11706014 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208.jpg 3000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1056338208-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of an LGBT group traveling with the other Central American migrant caravan wait for a ride on Nov. 1, 2018, in Juchitan de Zaragoza, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Loly linked up with the caravan in Tapachula, in southern Mexico, and hopes to work in the United States and save up to start a beauty products company — perhaps in Los Angeles or New York. It's something she has planned for a long time, all the way down to the business logo, but she's never had the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am going to a country where I know I will achieve my dreams,\" Loly said hopefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports are common in much of Central America of LGBTQ people being murdered, assaulted and discriminated against, due to their gender identity or sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting U.S. asylum is difficult even with proof someone has been the victim of persecution for being transgender, said Lynly Egyes, director of litigation at the \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderlawcenter.org\">Transgender Law Center\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It often takes days or weeks for transgender immigrants to get a hearing before an asylum officer. If they are allowed to move forward in the process, many are traumatized and struggle to tell their story, Egyes said. They are also much less likely to be granted asylum without a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is a horrifying process, and not everybody makes it through,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11706013 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060780478-e1542141283732-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the LGBTQ community split from a caravan of Central American migrants heading to the U.S. (L-R, top to bottom) Honduran Mariela Ordonez, 22; Honduran Nati Venegas, 16; Salvadoran Britany Rachel, 36; Honduran Joana Stefani, 27; Honduran Alixon Maricela Rivera, 19; Honduran Lady Mejia, 23; Honduran Teresa Perez, 20; and Nicaraguan Sinai Cortez, 19, pose at a house used as shelter on Nov. 12, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the migrants have said they joined the caravan because it offered safety in numbers. The 50 or so LGBTQ migrants traveling together, most of them in their 20s but some as young as 17 or as old as 60, say they, too, banded together for safety — a sort of caravan within the caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sticking out in their bright-colored clothing and makeup, the group has suffered verbal harassment, especially from men, and has been the victim of robbery and other aggressions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent day as they walked in a row on the highway to Isla, in the Mexican Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, a group of fellow migrants passed by on a flatbed truck and showered them with water, oranges, rinds and other refuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearful of being attacked more violently or sexually assaulted, they stick by each other's sides 24 hours a day, walking and sleeping in a group and even using the buddy system for going to the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Matias Romero, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, rather than sleep outdoors they took over an abandoned hotel damaged in last year's deadly earthquake. Dirty, windowless and with no electricity or running water, it was nonetheless a place to have a roof over their heads and be safe. They bathed by the light of a small lantern, dressed themselves and applied makeup as dozens of men milled about outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each night they sift through piles of donated clothing to try to look as sharp as possible. And they face a dilemma: Where to dress and relieve themselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have problems when it comes time to go to the bathroom,\" said Nakai Flotte, a transgender woman and activist. \"We bathe in the men's, sometimes in the women's, but it's difficult. There isn't one for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flotte was accompanying the migrants to provide support and information about making asylum claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. \"should take into account their condition of vulnerability and violence,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a decision by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions this year to deny asylum to victims of domestic and gang violence could also have a negative impact on transgender women and men because many are victims of gang violence who are targeted for being transgender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know it will be difficult to win asylum,\" said Alexa Amaya, a 24-year-old from Honduras, \"but we have to make the attempt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11706015\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11706015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060766332-e1542141908594-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the LGBTQ community arrive at the Diversidad Migrante NGO headquarters, which they will use as shelter, on Nov. 11, 2018, in Tijuana, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The caravan has traveled more than 1,000 miles in the month since its initial participants set out from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. As it traverses Mexico's central highlands, it's still about the same distance from its goal of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. It's unclear how many will make it. A similar caravan earlier this year fizzled to just about 200 who reached the U.S. frontier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the trek has been on foot, but hitching rides in pickup trucks, minibuses and tractor-trailers has been crucial lately, especially on days when they travel 100 miles or more. For the LGBTQ group, it's been tougher to find those rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A taxi driver kicked us out of his car,\" said Lady Perez, a 23-year-old from Honduras, adding that sometimes truck drivers who often transport migrants for a small fee have doubled or tripled the price for her group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lady began identifying as transgender at age 5, and her father ultimately disowned her. She was subjected to insults and beatings, her boyfriend was killed and she was warned to leave Honduras or else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In our country the rights of the LGBTQ community are not respected, and anti-social groups take advantage of that,\" Lady said.\u003cbr>\nWalking on the highway in a black miniskirt, red lipstick and black eyeliner, she said many men in the caravan have been harassing her and the others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have denigrated us. Supposedly you're emigrating from your country because of the violence, the discrimination, the homophobia, and it turns out that in the very caravan you face this kind of violence,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of the near-constant harassment, march organizers and human rights workers have sought to provide the group some security in the form of two men in green vests who travel with them and try to ward off any attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the verbal harassment doesn't cross the line, \"we feel protected,\" Loly said. \"If someone does cross the line, human rights is with us to protect us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. government said it was starting work on Tuesday to \"harden\" the border crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, to prepare for the arrival of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/migrant-caravan/\">migrant caravan\u003c/a> leapfrogging its way across western Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customs and Border Protection announced it was closing four lanes at the busy San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said the closures were needed \"to install and pre-position port hardening infrastructure equipment in preparation for the migrant caravan and the potential safety and security risk that it could cause.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The caravans became a campaign issue in U.S. midterm elections and President Trump has ordered the deployment of over 5,000 military troops to the border to help fend off the migrants. Trump has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703507/fact-check-migrants-are-not-overwhelming-the-southwest-border\">insinuated without proof\u003c/a> that there are criminals or even terrorists in the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060687462.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11705971 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060687462-e1542138150634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1236\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman taking part in a caravan of migrants from poor Central American countries moving toward the United States in hopes of a better life carries a baby as she waits along the Irapuato-Guadalajara highway in the Mexican state of Guanajuato for a ride to Guadalajara on their trek north, on Nov. 12, 2018. \u003ccite>(Alfredo EstrellaAFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To the thousands of Central American migrants making their way toward Mexico's Pacific Coast state of Nayarit, the prospect of meeting a hostile reception at the border is nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a month on the road, through three countries, migrants like Maribel, 22, from La Ceiba, Honduras, are used to tough conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maribel, who did not want her last name used for fear of reprisals in Honduras, pushed a baby carriage with her 1-year-old daughter while her husband pushed another with their 3-year-old son along a highway leading from Guadalajara to the Nayarit capital of Tepic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are well aware of everything Trump has been saying,\" Maribel said. \"Let them close whatever they want to close, but we are going to get through anyway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thousands of Central American migrants left shelters in Guadalajara early Tuesday and were taken by bus to a highway toll booth to wait for rides to their next destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They thought other buses would be waiting for them to take them through hurricane-ravaged Nayarit to the neighboring state of Sinaloa, further north. But no other buses showed up and few trucks passed to pick them up, leaving many to walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most appeared intent on taking the Pacific Coast route northward to the border city of Tijuana, which was still about 1,350 miles away. The migrants have come about 1,500 miles since they started out in Honduras around Oct. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they previously suffered from the heat on their journey through Honduras, Guatemala and southern Mexico, they now trek along highways wrapped in blankets to fend off the morning chill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060237168-e1542138184731.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11705970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060237168-e1542138184731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060237168-e1542138184731.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060237168-e1542138184731-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060237168-e1542138184731-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060237168-e1542138184731-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060237168-e1542138184731-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central American migrants get on board a truck heading to Irapuato in the state of Guanajuato on Nov. 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the caravan previously averaged only about 30 miles a day, the migrants are now covering daily distances of 185 miles or more, partly because they are relying on hitchhiking rather than walking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants have hopped aboard different kinds of trucks, regardless of comfort or safety. 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On Monday, a few boarded a truck carrying a shipment of coffins, while others squeezed into a truck with narrow cages used for transporting chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, especially men, travel on open platform trailers used to transport steel and cars or get in the freight containers of 18-wheelers and ride with one of the back doors open to provide air flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, a Honduran man in the caravan died when he fell from a platform truck in the Mexican state of Chiapas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11705977\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060407892-e1542138449115.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11705977 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060407892-e1542138449115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060407892-e1542138449115.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060407892-e1542138449115-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060407892-e1542138449115-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060407892-e1542138449115-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-1060407892-e1542138449115-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central American migrants, taking part in a caravan heading to the U.S., rest at a temporary shelter in Irapuato, Guanajuato state, Mexico on Nov. 11, 2018. \u003ccite>(Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A smaller, second caravan began arriving in Mexico City on Monday. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-addressing-mass-migration-southern-border-united-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">order\u003c/a> Friday to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally, tightening the border \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/migrant-caravan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as a caravans of Central Americans\u003c/a> slowly approaches the United States. The plan was immediately challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump invoked the same powers he used last year to impose a travel ban that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11677303/in-big-win-for-white-house-supreme-court-upholds-president-trumps-travel-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upheld by the Supreme Court\u003c/a>. The new regulations are intended to circumvent laws stating that anyone is eligible for asylum no matter how he or she enters the country. About 70,000 people per year who enter the country illegally claim asylum, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703507/fact-check-migrants-are-not-overwhelming-the-southwest-border\" target=\"_blank\">FACT CHECK: Migrants Are Not Overwhelming the Southwest Border\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The litigation also seeks to put the rules on hold while the suit progresses through court.\"We need people in our country but they have to come in legally,\" Trump said Friday as he departed for Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union and other legal groups quickly sued in federal court in Northern California to block the regulations, arguing the measures were clearly illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president is simply trying to run roughshod over Congress's decision to provide asylum to those in danger regardless of the manner of one's entry,\" said ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't clear whether the case would be heard by a judge before the rules go into effect Saturday. Those rules would be in place for at least three months but could be extended, and don't affect people already in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's announcement was the latest push to enforce a hard-line stance on immigration through regulatory changes and presidential orders, bypassing Congress, which has not passed any immigration law reform. But those efforts have been largely thwarted by legal challenges and, in the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/family-separation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family separations\u003c/a> this year, stymied by a global outcry that prompted Trump to retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the asylum law changes are meant to funnel migrants through official border crossings for speedy rulings instead of having them try to circumvent such crossings on the nearly 2,000-mile border. Border Patrol agents in Yuma said they arrested nearly 450 migrants in Western Arizona this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the busy ports of entry already have long lines and waits, forcing immigration officials to tell some migrants to turn around and come back to make their claims. Even despite that, illegal crossings are historically low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backlogs have become especially bad in recent months at crossings in California, Arizona and Texas, with some people waiting five weeks to try to claim asylum at San Diego's main crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The arrival of large numbers ... will contribute to the overloading of our immigration and asylum system and to the release of thousands ... into the interior of the United States,\" Trump said in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-addressing-mass-migration-southern-border-united-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclamation\u003c/a>, calling it a crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The arrival of large numbers ... will contribute to the overloading of our immigration and asylum system and to the release of thousands ... into the interior of the United States.'\u003ccite>President Trump, in his proclamation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Administration officials said those denied asylum under the new rules may be eligible for similar forms of protection if they fear returning to their countries, though they would be subject to a tougher threshold. Those forms of protection include \"withholding of removal\" — which is similar to asylum, but doesn't allow for green cards or bringing families into the U.S. too — or protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security officials said they were adding staffing at the border crossings to manage the expected crush, but it's not clear how migrants, specifically families, would be held as their cases are adjudicated. Family detention centers are largely at capacity. Trump has said he wanted to erect \"tent cities,\" but nothing has been funded or decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. is also working with Mexico in an effort to send some migrants back across the border. Right now, laws allow only Mexican nationals to be swiftly returned and increasingly those claiming asylum are from Central America, not Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump pushed immigration issues hard in the days leading up to Tuesday's midterm elections, railing against the caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has made little mention of the issue since the election, but has sent troops to the border in response. As of Thursday, there were more than 5,600 U.S. troops deployed, with about 550 actually working on the border in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also suggested he'd \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702389/trump-says-he-will-void-birthright-citizenship-law-through-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revoke the right to citizenship for babies born to non-U.S. citizens on American soil\u003c/a> and erect massive \"tent cities\" to detain migrants. Those issues were not addressed by the proclamation. But Trump insisted the citizenship issue would be pushed through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're signing it. We're doing it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has long said immigration officials are drowning in asylum cases partly because people falsely claim asylum and then live in the U.S. with work permits. In 2017, the U.S. fielded 331,700 asylum claims, nearly double the number two years earlier and surpassing Germany as the highest in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants who cross illegally are generally arrested and often seek asylum or some other form of protection. Claims have spiked in recent years and the immigration court backlog has more than doubled to 1.1 million cases in about two years, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Generally, only about 20 percent of applicants are approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how many people en route to the U.S. will even make it to the border. Roughly 5,000 migrants — more than 1,700 under the age of 18 — sheltered in a Mexico City sports complex decided to depart Friday for the northern city of Tijuana, opting for the longer but likely safer route to the U.S. border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar caravans have gathered regularly over the years and have generally dwindled by the time they reach the southern border, particularly to Tijuana. Most have passed largely unnoticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't clear whether the case would be heard by a judge before the rules go into effect Saturday. Those rules would be in place for at least three months but could be extended, and don't affect people already in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's announcement was the latest push to enforce a hard-line stance on immigration through regulatory changes and presidential orders, bypassing Congress, which has not passed any immigration law reform. But those efforts have been largely thwarted by legal challenges and, in the case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/family-separation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family separations\u003c/a> this year, stymied by a global outcry that prompted Trump to retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the asylum law changes are meant to funnel migrants through official border crossings for speedy rulings instead of having them try to circumvent such crossings on the nearly 2,000-mile border. Border Patrol agents in Yuma said they arrested nearly 450 migrants in Western Arizona this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the busy ports of entry already have long lines and waits, forcing immigration officials to tell some migrants to turn around and come back to make their claims. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Trump administration says it is trying to speed up legal proceedings for some of the record 13,000 migrant children in federal custody by using video hearings to stream testimony from detained youths into courtrooms, The Associated Press has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, some attorneys and judges say, is that technical glitches — including bad audio, weak connections and pixelated screens — are actually making it much harder for the teens in shelters to have a fair hearing. It can be challenging for judges to assess children's credibility without eye-to-eye contact, they say. And it further obscures the cases, which legally are supposed to be public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr\">Office of Refugee Resettlement\u003c/a>, which has custody of the teens, says its unannounced pilot program will save money and allows youths, some of whom are being housed at a cost of more than $775 a night, to appear before a judge more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program for teens, piloted in conjunction with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir\">Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review\u003c/a>, launched several weeks ago. Video teleconferencing already has been widely used in a variety of adult legal proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 30 youths have appeared via videoconferencing before immigration judges in Phoenix and Harlingen, Texas, said Lydia Holt, an ORR spokeswoman. Similar hearings have been conducted in immigration courts in Miami and New York City, said Kathryn Mattingly, an EOIR spokeswoman. The AP learned they also have been scheduled in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, El Paso, Seattle, Tucson and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704936\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS31986_GettyImages-982169256-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11704936 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS31986_GettyImages-982169256-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1626\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS31986_GettyImages-982169256-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS31986_GettyImages-982169256-qut-160x136.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS31986_GettyImages-982169256-qut-800x678.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS31986_GettyImages-982169256-qut-1020x864.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS31986_GettyImages-982169256-qut-1200x1016.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A migrant child looks out the window of a bus on June 23, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. The Trump administration faced criticism during the summer because the immigration system requires children to appear before judges for legal proceedings. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Need for Speed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the optics of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2014/07/09/330180259/for-kids-in-immigration-court-legal-counsel-is-catch-as-catch-can\">children in court\u003c/a> became an embarrassment to the administration, with critics seizing on the fact that the immigration system requires children — some still in diapers — to appear before judges for legal proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holt said the administration has recommended 75 more unaccompanied children for video hearings, typically migrants between the ages of 15 and 17 who have been in custody for a longer period of time and want their immigration cases heard swiftly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If at all possible, ORR does not want children to stay longer than necessary in our facilities while waiting for their immigration case to be heard,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR shelters are nearly full, mostly with children who immigrated without their parents and have family or friends in the U.S. willing to take them in. But the children can spend months in detention as the government arranges their deportation or release to parents or other sponsors, who are now facing stricter guidelines for vetting in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 60 percent of all migrant children who had their first court date in fiscal year 2017 still did not have lawyers by this August, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/482/\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-978855704.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11704948 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/GettyImages-978855704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young migrants play football at a temporary detention center in Tornillo, Texas, on June 18, 2018. The Trump administration has recommended video hearings for some unaccompanied children who await trial. \u003ccite>(Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Technical Difficulties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states where children have been appearing before judges via video, attorneys say the new process hasn't worked well thus far and risks rolling back due process. Much of the legal representation is pro bono, and organizations can't afford to have two attorneys at each appearance — one in the courtroom and another in the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, there was no way to transmit court documents remotely, so someone had to drive to the shelter to serve the detained teen with paperwork. Another teen stopped talking and started looking around the room when the video feed coming from the court went blank, confusing the judge trying to evaluate the teen's credibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government is asking shelter workers to set up mock hearing rooms, complete with a table for the child and empty tables for the judge and the government attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Ashley Tabaddor, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.naij-usa.org\">National Association of Immigration Judges\u003c/a>, called the video teleconference equipment \"very, very difficult to work with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she recently oversaw a video hearing in her Los Angeles courtroom: It took a half-hour to set up the connection, for a proceeding that would have taken five minutes in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"It's very hard to talk about that to a screen and not to a human being.\"\u003ccite>Archi Pyati, a New York-based attorney, about clients discussing personal trauma in court\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Phone lines drop, screens get fuzzy and participants have difficulty hearing each other, an issue exacerbated by language interpreters, who often aren't at both locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is nothing that can substitute for an in-person hearing,\" Tabaddor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ingrid Eagly, a law professor at UCLA who has analyzed thousands of cases of detained adult immigrants, found that those who saw judges on a monitor were more likely to be deported than those who appeared in court. The reason: During in-person hearings, detainees often better understood their options and sought legal counsel and other relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the detention centers, immigrants were frustrated with technical problems and felt the proceedings were unfair, so tended to give up, she found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration courts began using video hearings for adults 25 years ago, a process the federal government considers a \"force multiplier\" by saving time and money. It gives the government greater scheduling flexibility and allows judges in other regions to help clear dockets. 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An overwhelming influx\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The current influx, if not halted, threatens to overwhelm our immigration system and our communities, and poses unacceptable dangers to the entire nation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The total number of migrants apprehended at the Southwest border was actually down slightly last year, to about 521,000, and remains far below the kind of apprehension numbers that were routine in the 1990s and 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Trump administration argues that the current “crisis” is the result of a major shift in who is showing up at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A generation ago, migrants apprehended at the border were largely single adults, mostly from Mexico, who could be deported relatively quickly after they were caught. Today migrants are much more likely to be coming from Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/660010173/u-s-apprehended-record-number-of-migrant-families-at-southwest-border\">a record number of apprehended migrants were part of family units\u003c/a>. That means they have greater protections under U.S. law. In practice, many of these asylum-seekers are released into the U.S. to await their day in court, which can take months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. No more “catch and release”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“These policies lead to the release of illegal aliens into our communities after they’ve been apprehended. But we’re not releasing anymore. Big change, as of a couple of days ago. We’re going to no longer release. We’re going to catch; we’re not going to release. They’re going to stay with us until the deportation hearing or the asylum hearing takes place. So we’re not releasing them into the community.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, under U.S. law, migrant families who have requested asylum are not considered illegal immigrants. And they are being released in large numbers up and down the border. In El Paso, Texas, Ruben Garcia, director of a local shelter called Annunciation House, told reporter Mallory Falk of member station KRWG the shelter had received 332 people Thursday released from immigration custody and are expecting 225 more Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arizona, Matthew Casey of member station KJZZ spoke with an official at Capellania Cristiana Llamados Para Servir, an organization working with churches in metropolitan Phoenix. The official confirmed the organization expects 90 families at two different churches on Friday and 400 more migrants from Yuma to start arriving in Phoenix late this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These migrant families are generally released to join relatives in other parts of the country and will be issued a Notice to Appear in immigration court for their asylum hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. They never show up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Then they never show up, almost. It’s like a level of 3 percent. They never show up for the trial. So by the time their trial comes, they’re gone. Nobody knows where they are.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Actually, the majority of asylum-seekers do show up to court. 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They say immigration courts are supposed to decide each asylum case on its own merits and that the low acceptance rate is simply evidence that the system is working — and that asylum cases are not easy to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. It’s an invasion\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Some people call it an invasion. It’s like an invasion. … These are tough people, in many cases. A lot of young men, strong men.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The president has claimed repeatedly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659917659/fact-check-president-trumps-false-claims-on-migrant-caravan-tax-cuts\">without evidence\u003c/a>, that the migrants include dangerous criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reporters on the ground say the migrants comprise mainly women and children who are fleeing from violence and extreme poverty in Central America. Refugee and asylum experts accuse the president of fearmongering to rally his political base for the midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a “tragic irony” in portraying the asylum-seekers as a marauding army, said Karen Musalo, director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at U.C. Hastings College of the Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Individuals have come together to walk north in a caravan because the journey north for asylum-seekers has been so dangerous,” Musalo said in an interview. “These are very vulnerable individuals, desperately fleeing violence, who have come together as a group to have the protection and solidarity of each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With days to go before the midterm elections, President Trump continues to ratchet up his rhetoric on immigration. The president’s latest target is asylum-seekers, whom he accuses of exploiting “loopholes” in U.S. immigration laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a televised speech from the White House on Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/663012881/in-broad-attack-on-asylum-seekers-trump-takes-campaign-message-to-white-house\">Trump threatened to close the Southwest border to asylum-seekers\u003c/a> — including the latest group of Central American migrants making their way through Mexico — unless they present themselves at official ports of entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But refugee and asylum experts say his plan would violate \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-1687.html#0-0-0-192\">U.S. law\u003c/a>. They say the president’s remarks about asylum were riddled with inaccuracies and misleading statements intended to stoke fear of immigrants and drive the president’s supporters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll focus here on five statements President Trump made Thursday in the Roosevelt Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. An overwhelming influx\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The current influx, if not halted, threatens to overwhelm our immigration system and our communities, and poses unacceptable dangers to the entire nation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The total number of migrants apprehended at the Southwest border was actually down slightly last year, to about 521,000, and remains far below the kind of apprehension numbers that were routine in the 1990s and 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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No more “catch and release”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“These policies lead to the release of illegal aliens into our communities after they’ve been apprehended. But we’re not releasing anymore. Big change, as of a couple of days ago. We’re going to no longer release. We’re going to catch; we’re not going to release. They’re going to stay with us until the deportation hearing or the asylum hearing takes place. So we’re not releasing them into the community.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, under U.S. law, migrant families who have requested asylum are not considered illegal immigrants. And they are being released in large numbers up and down the border. In El Paso, Texas, Ruben Garcia, director of a local shelter called Annunciation House, told reporter Mallory Falk of member station KRWG the shelter had received 332 people Thursday released from immigration custody and are expecting 225 more Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Arizona, Matthew Casey of member station KJZZ spoke with an official at Capellania Cristiana Llamados Para Servir, an organization working with churches in metropolitan Phoenix. The official confirmed the organization expects 90 families at two different churches on Friday and 400 more migrants from Yuma to start arriving in Phoenix late this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These migrant families are generally released to join relatives in other parts of the country and will be issued a Notice to Appear in immigration court for their asylum hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. They never show up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Then they never show up, almost. It’s like a level of 3 percent. They never show up for the trial. So by the time their trial comes, they’re gone. Nobody knows where they are.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Actually, the majority of asylum-seekers do show up to court. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/fysb16/download\">Department of Justice statistics for the 2016 fiscal year\u003c/a>, only about 2 in 5 cases were decided in absentia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant-rights advocates say the number of asylum-seekers who do show up would be even higher if they had attorneys and more support from court staff to let them know when and where to show up. They point to a pilot program that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/629496174/alternatives-to-detention-are-cheaper-than-jails-but-cases-take-far-longer\">highly successful at getting immigrants to show up in court\u003c/a> before it was canceled by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Abusing asylum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“This endemic abuse of the asylum system makes a mockery of our immigration system, displacing legitimate asylum-seekers — and there are legitimate asylum-seekers — while rewarding those who abuse or defraud our system, which is almost everybody. Everybody is abusing it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Immigration lawyers say this is a wild exaggeration. It’s true that only a fraction of all asylum claims are actually successful. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/491/\">immigration courts rejected more than 60 percent of asylum claims\u003c/a>, a number that has been steadily rising since 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration argues that rejection rate is itself evidence of fraud. But immigrants-rights advocates dispute that. They say immigration courts are supposed to decide each asylum case on its own merits and that the low acceptance rate is simply evidence that the system is working — and that asylum cases are not easy to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. It’s an invasion\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Some people call it an invasion. It’s like an invasion. … These are tough people, in many cases. A lot of young men, strong men.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The president has claimed repeatedly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659917659/fact-check-president-trumps-false-claims-on-migrant-caravan-tax-cuts\">without evidence\u003c/a>, that the migrants include dangerous criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reporters on the ground say the migrants comprise mainly women and children who are fleeing from violence and extreme poverty in Central America. 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"content": "\u003cp>The last time Bertha Zúñiga visited San Francisco from her native Honduras was in April 2015, when she watched her mother, Berta Cáceres, walk onstage in a glittery gown \u003ca href=\"https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/berta-caceres/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to receive\u003c/a> the prestigious Goldman Environmental prize, also dubbed the Green Nobel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even a year later, gunmen burst into her mother’s home on the night of March 2, 2016, and shot her to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cáceres was an environmentalist and indigenous rights activist, as well as a 44-year-old mother of four. She had led a years-long grassroots campaign that halted the construction of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam that Lenca indigenous communities said threatened their supply of food and water in western Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter, who friends call Berthita, returned to the Bay Area this week to speak before UC Berkeley law students about her mother’s assassination and her family’s struggle to secure justice in the murder case, which has garnered worldwide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bertha Zúñiga stands before an image of her mother at her cousin's home in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2018. Zúñiga was scheduled to speak on a panel at the UC Berkeley Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bertha Zúñiga stands before an image of her mother at her cousin's home in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2018. Zúñiga was scheduled to speak on a panel at the UC Berkeley Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A verdict is expected in coming days for eight defendants, but Zúñiga believes those ultimately responsible have not been held to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in her cousin’s kitchen in Oakland, Zúñiga, 28, said Honduran police and prosecutors intentionally botched the investigation, and the trial would not have gone forward without an independent inquiry by international attorneys, including one from UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the murder and the obstacles to a fair trial reveal a climate of violence and impunity in Honduras that is pushing other people to flee the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If justice is not achieved with all the work we’ve done, with all the international declarations and protests, what are the chances an ordinary person can get justice?” asked Zúñiga.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We provide millions of dollars in security assistance to Honduras every year but these same forces have been found to attack and kill environmental, labor and human rights activists.\" \u003ccite>Rep. Hank Johnson \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The murder rate in Honduras remains one of the highest in the world, despite a downward trend in recent years. Those responsible are rarely convicted, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/honduras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abuse and corruption\u003c/a> are rampant among the judiciary and police. Many of the Hondurans making their way to the U.S. border in loose caravans say they are escaping that violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know that the people who commit crimes will never be punished,” said Zúñiga, drinking coffee at the kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zúñiga had flown to the Bay Area from Honduras the day before. She was scheduled to speak Thursday at the UC Berkeley Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/international-human-rights-law-clinic/ihrlc-20th-anniversary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a panel\u003c/a> with women from Guatemala and Colombia whose family members were also murdered for their activism. Then, Zúñiga planned to catch a plane to be back in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to be in Tegucigalpa when a tribunal of judges issues the verdict, which could be as soon as Saturday, Zúñiga said. A total of nine people were indicted, including an ex-military intelligence officer. The president of the Honduran company building the dam Cáceres fought, Desarrollos Energéticos, will face trial separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has denied any involvement with Cáceres’ murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bertha Zúñiga pets Luna, at her cousin's home in Oakland on Oct. 31 2018. Before her, is a report by international attorneys who investigated her mother's death and found evidence of a broad plot. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roxanna Altholz, who co-directs the International Human Rights Clinic at Berkeley Law, said Honduran authorities have withheld and even erased evidence from dozens of computers, cell phones and other electronic devices during the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very concerned this is a show trial and it’s a trial being used to shield the masterminds, the intellectual authors, from accountability,” said Altholz, who was on the team of international attorneys aiding the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertha Cáceres is not the only victim of violence against environmentalists in Honduras. A 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/how-many-more/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> published before Cáceres’ death, found 111 environmental activists and land defenders were killed in Honduras since 2002, as the Honduran government issued concessions to private companies for dams, mining and other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Silvio Carrillo, Zúñiga’s cousin in Oakland, his aunt’s murder was a tragic wake up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was living in a bubble here in the U.S.... I was missing out on the reality of what was happening in Honduras,” said Carrillo, a journalist who was born and raised in Washington D.C. Carrillo has since worked to alert members of Congress about human rights violations in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1299/actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> introduced last year by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) would suspend U.S. funding for the Honduran military and police until the Honduran government obtains verdicts against those who ordered and carried out the killings of Berta Cáceres and other activists, and prosecutes members of the military and police for human rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We provide millions of dollars in security assistance to Honduras every year but these same forces have been found to attack and kill environmental, labor and human rights activists like Cáceres without any effective response from the Honduran authorities,\" said Rep. Johnson (D-GA) in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the U.S. spent $127 million in \u003ca href=\"https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/HND\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">total aid\u003c/a> to Honduras. About $18 million of those funds were marked for military purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, the Berta Caceres Human Rights Act of Honduras, was co-sponsored by dozens of Democrats, but failed to gain traction. Johnson plans to reintroduce the bill early next year, said Andy Phelan, a spokesman for the congressman’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo said ending U.S. military aid would send a message to the Honduran government that it must respect the rule of law. Until then, he said, Hondurans will continue to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents came here for the same reason four decades ago: U.S. support for corrupt governments,” said Carrillo. “They had to leave Central America for a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silvio Carrillo holds his business card with an image of his aunt, activist Berta Cáceres, at his kitchen in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zúñiga is now leading the organization her mother co-founded, the \u003ca href=\"http://copinhenglish.blogspot.com/p/who-we-are.html\">Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.\u003c/a> And she, too, is now facing threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, as she and other organizers were leaving a rural community, a car \u003ca href=\"https://www.efe.com/efe/america/sociedad/detenido-un-sospechoso-por-atentar-contra-la-hija-de-berta-caceres-en-honduras/20000013-3318594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">driven by armed men\u003c/a> tried to ram her vehicle and force it off the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zúñiga said she is determined to continue the work her mother started and honor her legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to continue to fight in defense of the rivers and land,” she said. “That is the greatest act of justice for my \u003cem>mami\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The last time Bertha Zúñiga visited San Francisco from her native Honduras was in April 2015, when she watched her mother, Berta Cáceres, walk onstage in a glittery gown \u003ca href=\"https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/berta-caceres/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to receive\u003c/a> the prestigious Goldman Environmental prize, also dubbed the Green Nobel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even a year later, gunmen burst into her mother’s home on the night of March 2, 2016, and shot her to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cáceres was an environmentalist and indigenous rights activist, as well as a 44-year-old mother of four. She had led a years-long grassroots campaign that halted the construction of the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam that Lenca indigenous communities said threatened their supply of food and water in western Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter, who friends call Berthita, returned to the Bay Area this week to speak before UC Berkeley law students about her mother’s assassination and her family’s struggle to secure justice in the murder case, which has garnered worldwide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Bertha Zúñiga stands before an image of her mother at her cousin's home in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2018. Zúñiga was scheduled to speak on a panel at the UC Berkeley Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33541_IMG_0777-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bertha Zúñiga stands before an image of her mother at her cousin's home in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2018. Zúñiga was scheduled to speak on a panel at the UC Berkeley Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A verdict is expected in coming days for eight defendants, but Zúñiga believes those ultimately responsible have not been held to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in her cousin’s kitchen in Oakland, Zúñiga, 28, said Honduran police and prosecutors intentionally botched the investigation, and the trial would not have gone forward without an independent inquiry by international attorneys, including one from UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the murder and the obstacles to a fair trial reveal a climate of violence and impunity in Honduras that is pushing other people to flee the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If justice is not achieved with all the work we’ve done, with all the international declarations and protests, what are the chances an ordinary person can get justice?” asked Zúñiga.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We provide millions of dollars in security assistance to Honduras every year but these same forces have been found to attack and kill environmental, labor and human rights activists.\" \u003ccite>Rep. Hank Johnson \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The murder rate in Honduras remains one of the highest in the world, despite a downward trend in recent years. Those responsible are rarely convicted, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/honduras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abuse and corruption\u003c/a> are rampant among the judiciary and police. Many of the Hondurans making their way to the U.S. border in loose caravans say they are escaping that violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know that the people who commit crimes will never be punished,” said Zúñiga, drinking coffee at the kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zúñiga had flown to the Bay Area from Honduras the day before. She was scheduled to speak Thursday at the UC Berkeley Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/international-human-rights-law-clinic/ihrlc-20th-anniversary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a panel\u003c/a> with women from Guatemala and Colombia whose family members were also murdered for their activism. Then, Zúñiga planned to catch a plane to be back in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants to be in Tegucigalpa when a tribunal of judges issues the verdict, which could be as soon as Saturday, Zúñiga said. A total of nine people were indicted, including an ex-military intelligence officer. The president of the Honduran company building the dam Cáceres fought, Desarrollos Energéticos, will face trial separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has denied any involvement with Cáceres’ murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33543_IMG_0767-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bertha Zúñiga pets Luna, at her cousin's home in Oakland on Oct. 31 2018. Before her, is a report by international attorneys who investigated her mother's death and found evidence of a broad plot. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roxanna Altholz, who co-directs the International Human Rights Clinic at Berkeley Law, said Honduran authorities have withheld and even erased evidence from dozens of computers, cell phones and other electronic devices during the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very concerned this is a show trial and it’s a trial being used to shield the masterminds, the intellectual authors, from accountability,” said Altholz, who was on the team of international attorneys aiding the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertha Cáceres is not the only victim of violence against environmentalists in Honduras. A 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/how-many-more/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> published before Cáceres’ death, found 111 environmental activists and land defenders were killed in Honduras since 2002, as the Honduran government issued concessions to private companies for dams, mining and other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Silvio Carrillo, Zúñiga’s cousin in Oakland, his aunt’s murder was a tragic wake up call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was living in a bubble here in the U.S.... I was missing out on the reality of what was happening in Honduras,” said Carrillo, a journalist who was born and raised in Washington D.C. Carrillo has since worked to alert members of Congress about human rights violations in Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1299/actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a> introduced last year by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) would suspend U.S. funding for the Honduran military and police until the Honduran government obtains verdicts against those who ordered and carried out the killings of Berta Cáceres and other activists, and prosecutes members of the military and police for human rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We provide millions of dollars in security assistance to Honduras every year but these same forces have been found to attack and kill environmental, labor and human rights activists like Cáceres without any effective response from the Honduran authorities,\" said Rep. Johnson (D-GA) in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the U.S. spent $127 million in \u003ca href=\"https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/HND\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">total aid\u003c/a> to Honduras. About $18 million of those funds were marked for military purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, the Berta Caceres Human Rights Act of Honduras, was co-sponsored by dozens of Democrats, but failed to gain traction. Johnson plans to reintroduce the bill early next year, said Andy Phelan, a spokesman for the congressman’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrillo said ending U.S. military aid would send a message to the Honduran government that it must respect the rule of law. Until then, he said, Hondurans will continue to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents came here for the same reason four decades ago: U.S. support for corrupt governments,” said Carrillo. “They had to leave Central America for a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33539_IMG_0780-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silvio Carrillo holds his business card with an image of his aunt, activist Berta Cáceres, at his kitchen in Oakland on Oct. 31, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zúñiga is now leading the organization her mother co-founded, the \u003ca href=\"http://copinhenglish.blogspot.com/p/who-we-are.html\">Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.\u003c/a> And she, too, is now facing threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, as she and other organizers were leaving a rural community, a car \u003ca href=\"https://www.efe.com/efe/america/sociedad/detenido-un-sospechoso-por-atentar-contra-la-hija-de-berta-caceres-en-honduras/20000013-3318594\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">driven by armed men\u003c/a> tried to ram her vehicle and force it off the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zúñiga said she is determined to continue the work her mother started and honor her legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got to continue to fight in defense of the rivers and land,” she said. “That is the greatest act of justice for my \u003cem>mami\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I'm a believer in following the plain text of the Constitution and I think in this case the 14th Amendment is pretty clear, and that would involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump announced his plan to circumvent Congress to revoke the 150-year-old birthright law \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html\">in an interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>Axios on HBO\u003c/em> that is slated to air Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't,\" Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0d21nQBY8o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential move, which would very likely trigger numerous legal challenges, would seek to end the conferring of citizenship on all children born in the U.S. — which is currently guaranteed by the \u003ca href=\"http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/the-amendments/amendment-14-citizenship-rights\">14th Amendment \u003c/a>— including children of noncitizen parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first sentence of the amendment reads: \"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept is based on \u003cem>jus soli\u003c/em> — \"right of the soil\" — meaning that children born in the U.S. have a claim to citizenship, even if their parents lack legal documentation to be in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has mentioned the idea of voiding the amendment before, most notably \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/22/433621593/will-gops-efforts-to-reach-out-to-hispanics-survive-these-primaries\">in August 2015\u003c/a>, when the birthright issue became part of his hard-line policies on immigration as a presidential candidate. 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As \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html\">the Library of Congress notes\u003c/a>, the amendment \"greatly expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans and is cited in more litigation than any other amendment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment's final section notes that it is Congress — not the president — who has the power \"to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702387/bay-area-law-professors-call-trumps-plan-to-end-birthright-citizenship-ludicrous\">Bay Area Law Professors Call Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship 'Ludicrous'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702387/bay-area-law-professors-call-trumps-plan-to-end-birthright-citizenship-ludicrous\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Trump-1180x839.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The 14th Amendment became law in 1868, as a rebuke to the Supreme Court's \u003cem>Dred Scott\u003c/em> decision, which had held that freed slaves were not U.S. citizens. Since then, its meaning and reach have been debated in courtrooms and in American society, with many questions centering on the phrase \"the jurisdiction thereof.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That means that they are subject to the laws of the United States, that they can, for example, be prosecuted for violating American law,\" constitutional law professor Suzanna Sherry \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/08/19/432910305/trump-immigration-plan-raises-legal-questions-about-birthright-citizenship\">told NPR in 2015\u003c/a>. The law excludes, for instance, the children of foreign diplomats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1860s, it was intended both to grant citizenship to freed slaves and to give peace of mind to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sherry, who teaches at Vanderbilt University, told NPR in 2015, \"the United States had experienced quite a bit of immigration, and immigration was viewed as a very good thing. And so this was essentially putting out a welcome mat to immigrants by ensuring that their children born here would be citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To change the law, Sherry said, you would need to either amend the 14th Amendment through Congress or ask the Supreme Court to overturn its earlier interpretation of the law and limit its benefit to people who are in the U.S. legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many legal scholars agree, the president says he has the power to act on his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can definitely do it with an act of Congress,\" Trump said in the \u003cem>Axios on HBO\u003c/em> interview. \"But now they're saying I can do it just with an executive order.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"We're the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years, with all of those benefits. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous, and it has to end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But birthright citizenship is the law of at least 30 countries, including many U.S. neighbors in North and South America. All of the countries in Europe grant automatic citizenship by \u003cem>jus sanguinis — \u003c/em>by \"right of blood.\" Some, like France, also offer a path to children of immigrants to acquire citizenship at age 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president said he has spoken about the birthright issue with the White House counsel. As for when he might act, Trump said, \"It's in the process. It'll happen — with an executive order.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the president's words, Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, predicted, \"This will set up the court fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIS identifies itself as a nonpartisan think tank, but it has consistently called for tougher U.S. immigration policies, and the Southern Poverty Law Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-immigration-studies\">has designated it a hate group\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump moves ahead with his plan, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1057241560616747009\">Krikorian said via Twitter\u003c/a>, \"the order will be enjoined, case will eventually reach SCOTUS, which then will finally have to rule on the meaning of 'subject to the jurisdiction.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/662043904/662102093\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of birthright citizenship have said it encourages pregnant women who want to immigrate to travel to the U.S. to have their babies, hoping to gain citizenship for their children and, they say, potentially easing their own path to becoming U.S. citizens. But immigration advocates say those concerns are overblown — part of a campaign to stir up voters in an election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's difficult to track the exact number of children whose parents are in the U.S. illegally, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/17/children-of-unauthorized-immigrants-represent-rising-share-of-k-12-students/\">the Pew Research Center has reported\u003c/a> that in 2014, 3.2 million children — nearly 6 percent of all K-12 students in the U.S. — had at least one unauthorized immigrant parent and were citizens because they were born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Trump were able to somehow roll back part of the 14th Amendment, the policy shift would not reduce the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/repealing-birthright-citizenship-unintended-consequences\">the Migration Policy Institute\u003c/a>. In fact, it could do the opposite: When the group did a study projecting the effects of a potential repeal of birthright citizenship in 2015, it found that such a change would add millions of people to America's undocumented population within a few decades, essentially creating a new underclass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And besides, MPI's Michael Fix wrote when that study was published, \"Birthright citizenship is not what drives illegal immigration. Surveys have found that people come for jobs and to better their lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krikorian of the CIS said an executive order on the issue is \"long overdue.\" But Trump's idea to revoke birthright citizenship is \"ill-timed\" and misguided, says Kristen Clarke, the executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aside from being unconstitutional, such an executive order would exacerbate racial tensions, exploit fears and drive further polarization across the country at a moment that calls for the promotion of unity and inclusion,\" Clarke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jess Morales Rocketto, whose Families Belong Together group has fought the\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Trump administration's family separation policy along the U.S.-Mexico border, was more blunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is ethnic cleansing,\" Rocketto said. \"This is an attempt to white-out America's history and heritage as a nation of immigrants. 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I'm a believer in following the plain text of the Constitution and I think in this case the 14th Amendment is pretty clear, and that would involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump announced his plan to circumvent Congress to revoke the 150-year-old birthright law \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html\">in an interview\u003c/a> with \u003cem>Axios on HBO\u003c/em> that is slated to air Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't,\" Trump said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/H0d21nQBY8o'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/H0d21nQBY8o'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The potential move, which would very likely trigger numerous legal challenges, would seek to end the conferring of citizenship on all children born in the U.S. — which is currently guaranteed by the \u003ca href=\"http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution/the-amendments/amendment-14-citizenship-rights\">14th Amendment \u003c/a>— including children of noncitizen parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first sentence of the amendment reads: \"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept is based on \u003cem>jus soli\u003c/em> — \"right of the soil\" — meaning that children born in the U.S. have a claim to citizenship, even if their parents lack legal documentation to be in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has mentioned the idea of voiding the amendment before, most notably \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/22/433621593/will-gops-efforts-to-reach-out-to-hispanics-survive-these-primaries\">in August 2015\u003c/a>, when the birthright issue became part of his hard-line policies on immigration as a presidential candidate. 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"content": "\u003cp>WASHINGTON — A week out from the midterm elections, the Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border this week in an extraordinary military operation to stop Central American migrants traveling north in two caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the U.S. The number of troops is more than double the 2,000 who are in Syria fighting the Islamic State group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump, eager to focus voters on immigration in the lead-up to the elections, stepped up his warnings about the caravans, tweeting: \"This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1056919064906469376\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's warning came as the Pentagon began executing \"Operation Faithful Patriot,\" described by the commander of U.S. Northern Command as an effort to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection stiffen defenses at and near legal entry points. Advanced helicopters will allow border protection agents to swoop down on migrants trying to cross illegally, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to secure the border,\" Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, the Northern Command leader, said at a news conference. He spoke alongside Kevin McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight hundred troops are already on their way to southern Texas, O'Shaughnessy said, and their numbers will top 5,200 by week's end. He said troops would focus first on Texas, followed by Arizona and then California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the approaching caravan, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra pushed back on the notion that the migrants are violent and called Trump's plans to use American troops in response \"disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My sense is that these migrants that are traveling by caravan are not looking for violence,\" Becerra said in an interview late last week with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you move troops anywhere, you're moving people who have been trained to defend this country to the point of killing others,\" he said. \"And so we've always been careful in how we deploy our troops. That this president makes such facile use of our troops is disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that this nation has a right as a sovereign nation to decide who comes into the country,\" Becerra added. \"And I believe anyone who wants to enter this country must do it according to our laws. But I also believe that our federal government must abide by those same laws when it exercises its powers in dealing with those who might want to enter the country. And so I fear that this administration is sending the wrong signals to people about how it approaches not just these migrants but the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11357550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11357550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of people in the first caravan has dwindled to 3,500 from about 7,000, though a second one was gaining steam and marred by violence. About 600 migrants in the second group tried to cross a bridge from Guatemala to Mexico en masse on Monday, but were met by ranks of Mexican federal police who blocked them from entering. The riverbank standoff followed a more violent confrontation Sunday when the migrants used sticks and rocks against Mexico police. One migrant was killed Sunday night by a head wound, but the cause was unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first group passed through the spot via the river — wading or on rafts — and was advancing through southern Mexico. That group appeared to begin as a collection of about 160 who decided to band together in Honduras for protection against the gangs who prey on migrants traveling alone and snowballed as the group moved north. They are mostly from Honduras, where it started, as well as El Salvador and Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, they are poor, carrying belongings that fit into a knapsack and fleeing gang violence or poverty. It's possible there are criminals mixed in, but Trump has not substantiated his claim that members of the MS-13 gang, in particular, are among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702183 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the thousands of Central American migrants arrive into the small town of Santiago Niltepec on Oct. 29, 2018 in Santiago Niltepec, Mexico. Following a break on Sunday, the migrants, many of them fleeing violence in their home countries, resumed their march towards the U.S. border. As fatigue from the heat, distance, and poor sanitary conditions has set in, the numbers of people participating in the march has slowly dwindled, but a significant group are determined to get to the United Sates. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-960x661.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the thousands of Central American migrants arrive in the small town of Santiago Niltepec on Oct. 29, 2018 in Santiago Niltepec, Mexico. Following a break on Sunday, the migrants, many of them fleeing violence in their home countries, resumed their march toward the U.S. border. As fatigue from the heat, distance and poor sanitary conditions have set in, the numbers of people participating in the march have slowly dwindled, but a significant group are determined to get to the United Sates. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The president's dark description of the caravan belied the fact that any migrants who complete the long trek to the southern U.S. border already face major hurdles, both physical and bureaucratic, to being allowed into the United States. Migrants are entitled under both U.S. and international law to apply for asylum, but it may take a while to make a claim. There is already a bottleneck of asylum-seekers at some U.S. border crossings, in some cases as long as five weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAleenan said the aim was to deter migrants from crossing illegally between ports, but he conceded his officers were overwhelmed by a surge of asylum-seekers. He also said Mexico was prepared to offer asylum to the caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're already seeking asylum, you've been given a generous offer,\" he said of Mexico. \"We want to work with Mexico to manage that flow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House is also weighing additional border security measures, including blocking those traveling in the caravan from seeking legal asylum and preventing them from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military operation drew quick criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sending active military forces to our southern border is not only a huge waste of taxpayer money, but an unnecessary course of action that will further terrorize and militarize our border communities,\" said Shaw Drake of the American Civil Liberties Union's border rights center at El Paso, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702186 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the thousands of Central American migrants look at a map after arriving into the small town of Santiago Niltepec, Mexico on Oct. 29, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-1200x811.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-960x649.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the thousands of Central American migrants look at a map after arriving in the small town of Santiago Niltepec, Mexico, on Oct. 29, 2018. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Military personnel are legally prohibited from engaging in immigration enforcement. The troops will include military police, combat engineers and others helping on the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalating rhetoric and expected deployments come as the president has been trying to turn the caravans into a key election issue just days before the midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will be the election of the caravans, the Kavanaughs, law and order, tax cuts, and you know what else? It's going to be the election of common sense,\" Trump said at a rally in Illinois on Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, he tweeted without providing evidence: \"Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please go back,\" he urged them, \"you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The troops are expected to perform a wide variety of functions, such as transporting supplies for the Border Patrol, but not engage directly with migrants seeking to cross the border, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One U.S. official said the troops will be sent initially to staging bases in California, Texas and Arizona while the CBP works out precisely where it wants the troops positioned. U.S. Transportation Command posted a video on its Facebook page Monday of a C-17 transport plane that it said was delivering Army equipment to the Southwest border in support of Operation Faithful Patriot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military has already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern border in conjunction with the deployment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight hundred troops are already on their way to southern Texas, O'Shaughnessy said, and their numbers will top 5,200 by week's end. He said troops would focus first on Texas, followed by Arizona and then California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the approaching caravan, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra pushed back on the notion that the migrants are violent and called Trump's plans to use American troops in response \"disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My sense is that these migrants that are traveling by caravan are not looking for violence,\" Becerra said in an interview late last week with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you move troops anywhere, you're moving people who have been trained to defend this country to the point of killing others,\" he said. \"And so we've always been careful in how we deploy our troops. That this president makes such facile use of our troops is disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that this nation has a right as a sovereign nation to decide who comes into the country,\" Becerra added. \"And I believe anyone who wants to enter this country must do it according to our laws. But I also believe that our federal government must abide by those same laws when it exercises its powers in dealing with those who might want to enter the country. And so I fear that this administration is sending the wrong signals to people about how it approaches not just these migrants but the law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11357550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11357550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/RS23547_GettyImages-530551244-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of people in the first caravan has dwindled to 3,500 from about 7,000, though a second one was gaining steam and marred by violence. About 600 migrants in the second group tried to cross a bridge from Guatemala to Mexico en masse on Monday, but were met by ranks of Mexican federal police who blocked them from entering. The riverbank standoff followed a more violent confrontation Sunday when the migrants used sticks and rocks against Mexico police. One migrant was killed Sunday night by a head wound, but the cause was unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first group passed through the spot via the river — wading or on rafts — and was advancing through southern Mexico. That group appeared to begin as a collection of about 160 who decided to band together in Honduras for protection against the gangs who prey on migrants traveling alone and snowballed as the group moved north. They are mostly from Honduras, where it started, as well as El Salvador and Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, they are poor, carrying belongings that fit into a knapsack and fleeing gang violence or poverty. It's possible there are criminals mixed in, but Trump has not substantiated his claim that members of the MS-13 gang, in particular, are among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702183 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the thousands of Central American migrants arrive into the small town of Santiago Niltepec on Oct. 29, 2018 in Santiago Niltepec, Mexico. Following a break on Sunday, the migrants, many of them fleeing violence in their home countries, resumed their march towards the U.S. border. As fatigue from the heat, distance, and poor sanitary conditions has set in, the numbers of people participating in the march has slowly dwindled, but a significant group are determined to get to the United Sates. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-1200x826.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-1180x812.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-960x661.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsArrive-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the thousands of Central American migrants arrive in the small town of Santiago Niltepec on Oct. 29, 2018 in Santiago Niltepec, Mexico. Following a break on Sunday, the migrants, many of them fleeing violence in their home countries, resumed their march toward the U.S. border. As fatigue from the heat, distance and poor sanitary conditions have set in, the numbers of people participating in the march have slowly dwindled, but a significant group are determined to get to the United Sates. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The president's dark description of the caravan belied the fact that any migrants who complete the long trek to the southern U.S. border already face major hurdles, both physical and bureaucratic, to being allowed into the United States. Migrants are entitled under both U.S. and international law to apply for asylum, but it may take a while to make a claim. There is already a bottleneck of asylum-seekers at some U.S. border crossings, in some cases as long as five weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAleenan said the aim was to deter migrants from crossing illegally between ports, but he conceded his officers were overwhelmed by a surge of asylum-seekers. He also said Mexico was prepared to offer asylum to the caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're already seeking asylum, you've been given a generous offer,\" he said of Mexico. \"We want to work with Mexico to manage that flow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House is also weighing additional border security measures, including blocking those traveling in the caravan from seeking legal asylum and preventing them from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The military operation drew quick criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sending active military forces to our southern border is not only a huge waste of taxpayer money, but an unnecessary course of action that will further terrorize and militarize our border communities,\" said Shaw Drake of the American Civil Liberties Union's border rights center at El Paso, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11702186 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the thousands of Central American migrants look at a map after arriving into the small town of Santiago Niltepec, Mexico on Oct. 29, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-1200x811.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-960x649.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-240x162.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MigrantsMap-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the thousands of Central American migrants look at a map after arriving in the small town of Santiago Niltepec, Mexico, on Oct. 29, 2018. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Military personnel are legally prohibited from engaging in immigration enforcement. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a well-lit kitchen in the Bay Area city of Pinole, Veronica Aguilar pours some water and salt into a boiling pot of red bean soup. Cooking the dish she grew up eating in El Salvador brings Aguilar a sense of comfort during anxious times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar worries for her 15-year old son and mother, who are now walking through Southern Mexico, after joining an estimated 7,000 Central Americans heading to the U.S. border in a loosely-organized caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former seamstress knows first-hand the challenges they could face, as Aguilar also made her way to the U.S. border with a smaller caravan last autumn.\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, 35, who applied for asylum protections in the U.S. “I’m worried that as they reach the entry to the United States, they’ll be turned away or that they’ll be let in and then immediately deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Aguilar waits for her teen to cover about 2,000 miles of Mexican territory, President Trump has called the caravan including several women and children “an assault.” Trump is reportedly preparing to further restrict asylum protections and to send 800 troops to help border authorities block the impoverished migrants from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055414972635926528\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted the president\u003c/a> on Thursday. “They will be stopped!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s heated rhetoric ahead of the midterm elections comes as immigration courts\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1104861/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> rejected more\u003c/a> asylum applicants than in any year since 2009, and illegal border crossings have remained at historically low levels for almost a decade. Border patrol agents made 396,580 arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Dec/BP%20Southwest%20Border%20Sector%20Apps%20FY1960%20-%20FY2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significantly fewer\u003c/a> than in the 1980s, 1990s or most of the 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's been a long-term trend toward much fewer people trying to cross the border and getting arrested there. And that’s driven by the decline in people trying to leave Mexico,” said Randy Capps, who heads research for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//datawrapper.dwcdn.net/QbZfF/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said she talks on the phone almost daily with her son and 54-year-old mother, who was recently sick with a fever and sore throat. But Aguilar said her mom got medicine after residents of a Mexican town organized to support the migrants in the caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They reached a small town and there were already doctors waiting for them,” said Aguilar in Spanish. “They got food. Regular people are supporting them even though there are so many migrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Aguilar, traveling last October with a caravan of 350 people offered safety in numbers and felt like her “only hope” to make it to the U.S. border after fleeing death threats, she said. When she reached Tijuana, she said she walked to U.S. border agents at the San Ysidro port of entry, and sought asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has increased the number of people who are kept detained while an immigration judge rules on their case. Aguilar said she was jailed for seven months at a detention facility in Irvine with other asylum seekers in her caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult to be detained for that long,” said Aguilar. She said she often felt isolated and couldn’t communicate with her family in El Salvador because she lacked the money for calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnem4VxlBQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an immigration judge set a $15,000 bond in her case, Aguilar said she couldn’t fathom how to pay the amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would have remained in detention, but volunteers with a group called Pueblos Sin Fronteras raised the funds for the bond, she said, and also signed up a Bay Area couple as sponsors who offered her a place to live while she fights for asylum in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar was released under electronic monitoring with a black ankle bracelet in June. Two days later, she arrived at Kent and Ann Moriarty’s home in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple had volunteered to visit immigrants in detention and help them communicate with their relatives. But this is the first time they decided to open their home to asylum seekers, said Kent Moriarty, a mechanical engineer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be able to welcome people that are taking so much risk to improve their lives and escape violence,” said Moriarty, 53, who is also hosting another woman seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11701761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33445_IMG_0730-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent Moriarty selects tools in his home in Pinole, Calif, on Oct. 25, 2018. Moriarty, 53, and his wife gave two asylum seekers a place to live while they fight their cases in immigration court. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Building walls and sending soldiers to the border doesn’t seem like an effective response to migrants, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like a big part of the conversation needs to be what’s causing people to flee and how we address that, or at least talk about it,” said Moriarty, sitting at his kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sep. 30, the U.S. Border Patrol made \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/usbp-sw-border-apprehensions\">107,212 arrests\u003c/a> of people traveling in “family units.” That’s the largest annual number ever, even compared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2017-Dec/BP%20Total%20Monthly%20Family%20Units%20by%20Sector%2C%20FY13-FY17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent years\u003c/a> when family migration spiked. Most of the families are from Central America, data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Severe poverty, gang violence and the sense of a hopeless future are driving families out, said Donald Kerwin, who directs the Center for Migration Studies, an think tank in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are looking for safety, they are looking for opportunity and a safe place to raise their children,” said Kerwin, adding that some migrants in the current caravan may try to settle along the way in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For adult migrants who do reach the U.S. border, Kerwin anticipates it’s unlikely immigration authorities will allow most to stay long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of these people are going to be subject to some kind of expedited removal process. In other words, they are not going to have a day in court,” said Kerwin, citing \u003ca href=\"http://jmhs.cmsny.org/index.php/jmhs/article/view/48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> by his institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under expedited removal, immigration officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/primer-expedited-removal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can order\u003c/a> the deportation of recently-arrived migrants they find within 100 miles of the border with no hearing before an immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants who convince an asylum officer that they have a “credible fear” of persecution in their country can make a case for asylum in immigration court. The courts currently have a backlog of more than 700,000 cases, and asylum seekers can wait months for a hearing, while often detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the number of of asylum seekers has grown, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has cited fraud and abuse in the asylum system and restricted the types of cases that are eligible for the protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said some of the two dozen people in last year’s caravan who applied for asylum have since been deported. Earlier this year, an immigration judge rejected her asylum claim, citing lack of evidence, she said, but a pro bono attorney in Los Angeles is appealing her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope I can present better evidence now that I’m outside of detention,” said Aguilar. “Because when I was inside, it was a problem. I didn’t have access to anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was released from ICE detention, Aguilar vowed to not forget her experience or those inside, she said. She began writing letters to dozens of detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make them feel they are not alone, that there’s people outside who care about them,” said Aguilar, who keeps hundreds of letters from detainees in a large cardboard box in her bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11701755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Aguilar speaks by phone with an immigrant detainee on Oct. 25, 2018 in Pinole, Calif. Aguilar keeps a cardboard box in her bedroom with over a hundred letters she's received from immigrants in detention. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Aguilar spends most of her time organizing fundraisers in the Bay Area for the migrants in the current caravan and for bonds that can help free immigrant detainees. On a recent morning, her cell phone buzzed and rang frequently with fellow volunteers on the line. As we spoke, a woman at a detention center called collect to ask for help in raising bond money, Aguilar later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moriarty said he’s been impressed by the commitment Aguilar and the other asylum seeker at his home are showing to other migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've got their own concerns,” said Moriarty. “But they're still taking a lot of their time and effort to work to support these people that are coming up, and help find places for people to stay so that they don't languish in detention after they've asked for asylum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said she fled El Salvador after gang members threatened to kill her because she repeatedly crossed through rival territory on her daily walk from home to the gym. She also feared that her son would be forced to join a gang and could be killed she said, which is why she asked her mother to accompany him in the current caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her own journey and detention experience, she said she’s conflicted about whether risking the trek to the U.S. was the right choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing, but I want to give him a better life. I want him to have a future,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Regular people are supporting them even though there are so many migrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Aguilar, traveling last October with a caravan of 350 people offered safety in numbers and felt like her “only hope” to make it to the U.S. border after fleeing death threats, she said. When she reached Tijuana, she said she walked to U.S. border agents at the San Ysidro port of entry, and sought asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has increased the number of people who are kept detained while an immigration judge rules on their case. Aguilar said she was jailed for seven months at a detention facility in Irvine with other asylum seekers in her caravan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult to be detained for that long,” said Aguilar. 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Most of the families are from Central America, data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Severe poverty, gang violence and the sense of a hopeless future are driving families out, said Donald Kerwin, who directs the Center for Migration Studies, an think tank in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are looking for safety, they are looking for opportunity and a safe place to raise their children,” said Kerwin, adding that some migrants in the current caravan may try to settle along the way in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For adult migrants who do reach the U.S. border, Kerwin anticipates it’s unlikely immigration authorities will allow most to stay long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of these people are going to be subject to some kind of expedited removal process. In other words, they are not going to have a day in court,” said Kerwin, citing \u003ca href=\"http://jmhs.cmsny.org/index.php/jmhs/article/view/48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> by his institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under expedited removal, immigration officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/primer-expedited-removal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can order\u003c/a> the deportation of recently-arrived migrants they find within 100 miles of the border with no hearing before an immigration judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Migrants who convince an asylum officer that they have a “credible fear” of persecution in their country can make a case for asylum in immigration court. The courts currently have a backlog of more than 700,000 cases, and asylum seekers can wait months for a hearing, while often detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the number of of asylum seekers has grown, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has cited fraud and abuse in the asylum system and restricted the types of cases that are eligible for the protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said some of the two dozen people in last year’s caravan who applied for asylum have since been deported. Earlier this year, an immigration judge rejected her asylum claim, citing lack of evidence, she said, but a pro bono attorney in Los Angeles is appealing her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope I can present better evidence now that I’m outside of detention,” said Aguilar. “Because when I was inside, it was a problem. I didn’t have access to anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was released from ICE detention, Aguilar vowed to not forget her experience or those inside, she said. She began writing letters to dozens of detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make them feel they are not alone, that there’s people outside who care about them,” said Aguilar, who keeps hundreds of letters from detainees in a large cardboard box in her bedroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11701755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11701755\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33442_IMG_0752-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veronica Aguilar speaks by phone with an immigrant detainee on Oct. 25, 2018 in Pinole, Calif. Aguilar keeps a cardboard box in her bedroom with over a hundred letters she's received from immigrants in detention. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Aguilar spends most of her time organizing fundraisers in the Bay Area for the migrants in the current caravan and for bonds that can help free immigrant detainees. On a recent morning, her cell phone buzzed and rang frequently with fellow volunteers on the line. As we spoke, a woman at a detention center called collect to ask for help in raising bond money, Aguilar later said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moriarty said he’s been impressed by the commitment Aguilar and the other asylum seeker at his home are showing to other migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They've got their own concerns,” said Moriarty. “But they're still taking a lot of their time and effort to work to support these people that are coming up, and help find places for people to stay so that they don't languish in detention after they've asked for asylum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguilar said she fled El Salvador after gang members threatened to kill her because she repeatedly crossed through rival territory on her daily walk from home to the gym. 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