Holding-cell stats raise questions about Trump asylum policy
Companies, agencies, institutions, etc
AP
Trump administration’s
Customs and Border Protection
The Associated Press
CBP
Hidalgo
Government
the Southern Poverty Law Center
American Immigration Council
Mayer Brown
the Border Patrol
Some Border Patrol
the University of Texas’ Strauss Center for International Security and Law
People
Kevin McAleenan
Todd Owen
Stephanie Leutert
Groups
Mexican
Physical locations
Central America
Places
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Locations
SAN DIEGO
U.S.
Mexico
Texas
Laredo
Brownsville
the United States
San Diego
San Diego’s
San Ysidro
El Paso
California
Events
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Summary
The AP counted about 19,000 people on waiting lists in four cities last July.Officials have rejected allegations that they are ignoring obligations under U.S. law and international treaties to consider asylum requests, portraying metering as a matter of crowd management.“It’s not turning people away; it’s asking them to wait,” then-CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in 2018.The spread of waiting lists coincided with a series of U.S. measures that have dramatically reduced the flow of asylum-seekers, including one that returns people to Mexico to wait for immigration court hearings in the U.S. Legal advocates say asylum-seekers have ended up falling victim to rape, kidnapping and other crimes in Mexico.The documents showed wide variations in holding-cell occupancy rates, with a San Diego crossing, the largest along the border, operating near capacity almost every day, and others regularly well below the limit.On March 14, according to one daily snapshot, 672 people were in custody at all 24 crossings, a 57% occupancy rate.
As said here by ELLIOT SPAGAT