TUCSON – The number of migrants detained through agents stationed on the U. S. -Mexico border in August reached the point in more than a year.
The United States has rejected the vast majority of migrants, according to new statistics published through the national border control agency.
U. S. Border Patrol agents arrested and prosecuted 4,6864 migrants in August, marking four consecutive months of steady increases in the number of migrants seeking to cross the border illegally despite restrictions President Donald Trump’s management has put in position to combat COVID. 19 pandemics.
Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U. S. Customs and Border Protection, used dramatic language to describe migrants as threats to the physical condition of Americans and, speaking Friday at the border in Laredo, Texas, presented little more than anecdotal evidence.
“Fifty thousand, a global pandemic, took the conscious resolve of, once again, forgetting any medical opinion around the world and trying to illegally cross our border,” Morgan said. “Fifty thousand potential carriers of a deadly disease. “
CBP began sending detained migrants back to the southwest US border. But it’s not the first time To stop them at their facility. The firm cited an emergency order known as Title 42 of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But it’s not the first time To prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, which causes COVID. -19.
Border officials and agents have deported a total of 153,596 migrants to their home countries since implementing Title 42 restrictions at the end of March, according to CBP’s knowledge published on Friday. Most evictions in less than two hours, Morgan said.
Since the start of the COVID-19 emergency, the firm has reported that 1990 showed cases, adding 11 deaths, among its employees.
Morgan said the top border agents contracted the virus after being exposed to migrants on the ground, but did not provide any further express details.
Customs and Border Protection has not published any data on the number of migrants detained who tested positive. Morgan said Friday that there were “dozens,” but because they were returned, the firm only examined a small percentage of them.
On August 24, CBP issued a press release saying that a Mexican migrant who had been detained by Border Patrol agents near the city of Rio Grande, Texas, had died as a result of COVID-19.
The agents had arrested the guy a month earlier, when he told them he was in poor health and had a fever, so the agents moved him to a hospital where he was placed with a fan.
Morgan blamed the increased migrant arrests and the potential threat of COVID-19 exposure on “despicable and disgusting cartels” that he said respected the fitness and protection of migrants.
“They and anyone they come into contact with are threatened as they continue to check to enter illegally,” he said.
According to August CBP statistics, border patrol officials returned 90% of the migrants they met that month.
Trump’s management has been criticized for expulsions by adding unaccompanied minors, who, under U. S. law, will be passed on to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Earlier this year, CBP won a widespread complaint after the main points revealed that they were holding young migrants in hotel rooms in Texas and Arizona before deporting them.
Many migrant advocates, such as Democrats in Congress, have denounced the practice. In a letter to Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, seven Democratic senators accused the Trump administration of evading asylum and other express protections for migrant children.
“Evictions are a new out-of-court procedure, which takes place absolutely outdoors within the legal framework established through our laws,” the letter says. “Deportations are a procedure by which DHS expels others from our country, without a written record and without examining whether they return to persecution or other danger.
Morgan advocated the practice of firing children, posing as many health hazards for Americans as adult migrants.
“A child, as everyone knows, can be a COVID carrier as much as an adult, so the challenge is that we have to stop them from bringing him into our network and bringing him further into the country,” he said.
Later Friday, the Trump administration encountered a legal hurdle: the U. S. district judge was in the process of being a major member of the U. S. military. But it’s not the first time Dolly Gee said she would order the government to end the practice of hosting young migrants in hotels to temporarily deport them on the grounds that it violates the 1997 Flores regulation. dictating how young migrants will be treated in the custody of the United States.
Arrests along the U. S. -Mexico border plummeted in April, the first full month after CBP began returning migrants, but since then, the number of arrests has increased.
The 46864 migrants arrested in August are the highest monthly count since August 2019, and Morgan said he expects the numbers to continue to rise as the U. S. economy recovers from the pandemic-induced recession.
Across the border, the number of migrants seeking asylum continues to rise, according to a new report by the Robert Strauss Center for Security and International Law and the University of Texas.
At the same time, the Trump administration has begun firing migrants, also ended all asylum remedies along the U. S. -Mexico border, leaving thousands of migrants stranded indefinitely in Mexican border towns where they have already been waiting for months for their turn. Legally.
The report comes with many of the 60,000 migrants that Trump management returned to Mexico after processing, to await the final results of their asylum applications, in accordance with migrant coverage protocols.
The U. S. government has suspended all of the program’s hearings indefinitely – also known as “Stay in Mexico” – until a number of COVID-19 propagation situations are met in the states on both sides of the U. S. -Mexico border.
Strauss’s counting report, the practice through which U. S. officials treat only a handful of migrants every day, indicates that about 15,000 people in 11 Mexican border towns are waiting to apply for asylum in the United States.
Many waiting lists in primary border towns such as Tijuana, Nogales and Ciudad Juarez remain closed due to COVID-19, so many migrants who continue to arrive in those cities are on the charts, according to the report.
But lists of other little ones have reopened and are starting to upload names, list managers reported.
The report notes that not all of the other 15,000 people are physically provided in the border towns where they are on waiting lists.
“List managers in several towns report that others returned to their communities of pandemic origin, tried to cross the United States between ports of entry, or moved to some other Mexican town to locate solid jobs,” the report says.
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