Border Patrol begins releasing migrant families on the streets of Yuma
Source: AZ Central
Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic Published 1:38 p.m. MT March 28, 2019 | Updated 7:42 p.m. MT March 28, 2019
U.S. Border Patrol officials in Arizona said they have started releasing migrant families from their custody into the streets of Yuma because processing centers can't cope with the large numbers of arriving families and minors.
Community groups in the Yuma area have set up temporary facilities to house the families and to provide food and shelter while they assist migrants with travel plans to leave the border city.
The Border Patrol issued a statement Thursday announcing its decision, which followed the lead of officials in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, who last week began releasing families from their custody.
"U.S. Border Patrol processing centers are not designed to house the current numbers of families and small children that we are encountering," the Border Patrol's Yuma sector said in a written statement. "Due to capacity issues at our stations and the ongoing humanitarian crisis nationwide, Border Patrol has begun identifying detainees for potential release in Yuma with a notice to appear for their immigration hearings."
Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2019/03/28/border-patrol-begins-releasing-migrants-yuma/3301641002/
not fooled
(5,801 posts)a propaganda stunt concocted by red don and his fellow Nazis using real people as pawns to scare 'Murica with pics of brown hordes. Co-opting the functions of the BP for purely political purposes. Note that they chose relative backwater small-towm Yuma for their theatre.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)We had a working system for asylum seekers to present their lawful claims, and abscondment was quite rare. They deliberately broke it.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)"Community groups in the Yuma area have set up temporary facilities to house the families and to provide food and shelter while they assist migrants with travel plans to leave the border city." tRump has the habit of creating crisis and then walking away leaving others to clean up his mess! Bless the local people who are stepping up to provide assistance to the migrant families! I'm beginning to think that private citizens who take on government screwups should not have to pay taxes to the federal government. You know, that old taxation without representation thing.