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Migrant families are being held in a parking lot
Brut America
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3/25/2025
Hundreds of migrant families are being held in a parking lot under a bridge in El Paso, Texas — and immigration advocates are outraged.
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They are using refugees, children, mothers, and fathers to advance a political agenda.
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They are not the conditions for a family, for children to be there, for mothers to be
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there.
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I mean, they might have some portable restrooms, we're not sure.
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By no means, that is the conditions where refugees and asylum seekers should be placed.
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I mean, that is quite irresponsible.
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And they are trying to come legally into the United States by the ports of entry, and they
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are being rejected at ports of entry.
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This administration is turning refugees back to Mexico massively when they are trying to
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come legally.
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So what that is creating is a condition where people that is being returned to Mexico, now
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they are forced to come between ports of entry by the river.
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And the administration now is taking that picture and saying, you see, we have an influx,
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a massive influx of refugees.
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We have more of them coming because the situations in Central America, probably they are getting
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worse.
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But by no means, we have the numbers that we have in the year of 2000.
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In the year of 2000, we have close to 1.6 million people crossing the border.
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And even today, with this increase, we're not going to get to that number by any means.
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Instead of putting more resources at ports of entry, having more officers, asylum officers,
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having welcoming centers in the U.S. side, what they are doing is exactly the opposite.
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We have families coming, fleeing specific circumstances that America should be able
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to grant them legal due process and accept their petitions as asylum seekers.
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At the end, if they are not eligible, they might not be, but at least we need to guarantee
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due process when they petition for asylum or refugee status.
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