Central American Caravan Hits U.S. for Asylum but Didn’t Get the Answer They Expected This Time
By Bizpac Review. About 50 members of the Central American caravan that marched through Mexico are asking for asylum in the United States, but border officials told them the port of entry is full.
Alex Mensing helped organize the caravan with the group Pueblos Sin Fronteras (translation: “villages without borders”). Mensing said U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) told him there’s no more room for asylum seekers right now. So the fate of the “asylum seekers” currently hangs in the balance.
Mensing told BuzzFeed: “CBP officials said, ‘We are at capacity. At this time we cannot accept any more asylum-seekers; you can wait on one side.’ So the asylum-seekers are next to the door waiting for whenever it is CBP is capable of receiving asylum-seekers.”
The caravan initially started off as a throng of 1,200 to 1,500 people, but has since winnowed down after President Trump asked Mexico to intervene and break up the horde of unemployed refugees.
As of April 29, U.S. border officials have not allowed the vagrants to apply for asylum. After all, they are not political refugees because there’s no war going on in Mexico, nor are they targets of religious persecution. (Read more from “Central American Caravan Hits U.S. for Asylum but Didn’t Get the Answer They Expected This Time” HERE)
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U.S. Officials Still Have Not Allowed Members of the Central American Caravan to Apply for Asylum
By Buzzfeed. On Sunday evening, about 50 asylum-seekers who have made their way through Mexico as part of a caravan of Central Americans walked into the San Ysidro Port of Entry, just south of San Diego, but US border authorities have not allowed them to ask for asylum.
The caravan started with about 1,200 to 1,500 people and on Sunday about 40 presented themselves at San Ysidro in the United States to ask for asylum, citing violence and political oppression. As of Sunday evening, the US border authorities had still not allowed them to apply for asylum . . .
“CBP officials said, ‘We are at capacity — at this time we cannot accept any more asylum-seekers; you can wait on one side,'” Mensing said. “So the asylum-seekers are next to the door waiting for whenever it is CBP is capable of receiving asylum-seekers.” (Read more from “Us Officials Still Have Not Allowed Members of the Central American Caravan to Apply for Asylum” HERE)
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