Presidential candidate Cory Booker visits Juarez to help escort migrants seeking asylum

[TexasTowelie]

JUÁREZ, Mexico — Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker walked five Cuban and Honduran asylum seekers over an international bridge Wednesday.

The New Jersey senator was joined by attorneys from Las Americas and organizers with the group Families Belong Together, in escorting the five women over the bridge, their faces obscured by manila folders.

Las Americas attorney Linda Rivas said the women were victims of sexual assault and labor trafficking in Juárez and intended to claim fear of returning to the border city. Rivas said Booker "is supporting our clients in his role as a senator, which is a pretty powerful support."

The New Jersey senator spent more than three hours meeting with the migrants at a Chihuahua state-run migrant aid center near the foot of the Paso del Norte Bridge in Juárez. He arrived at the migrant center just before 11 a.m. with a group of El Paso immigration attorneys.

Read more: https://www.reporternews.com/story/news/2019/07/03/cory-booker-texas-border-democrat-presidential-candidate-migrants-immigration/1641513001/

[JI7]

1. all of the democratic candidates are good people

[madaboutharry]

2. I believe Booker genuinely cares about people.

He recently ran into a burning building to rescue people.

He is a good man.

[femmedem]

3. A very good man. The rescue was in 2012

so not that recent, but that just means he's been a very good man for a long time, not just when he decided to run for president. He truly risked his life to save someone else's. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/nyregion/newark-mayor-cory-booker-saves-woman-from-house-fire.html