Guardianhasof“Is9.20pmpic.twitter.com/qMMUBaC7NAoncover.youthat federal agents told her they would put her son up for adoption if she didn’t behave. pic.twitter.com/9UBlhTMURQSome of the bureaucratic failures are remarkable: Border Patrol agents who forgot to note that a child crossed the border with a parent. Mothers who were never given the toll-free phone number where they can request about their kids.
Before one deportation flight left for Honduras from Texas on Thursday,U.
S. officials asked who had children in detention in the United States and the four who put up their hands were not put on the flight, deportees arriving in Honduras told Reuters.
I detest these people.https://t.co/uKf3WEWtBD pic.twitter.com/bQFZmiCYb2 3.10pm BSTThe president has returned to Twitter to discuss immigration, or describing tales from the border as “phony stories of sadness and grief.”Below,some rapid/fast context on his claims: 80% of Mexico’s Exports near to the United States. They totally rely on us, which is fine with me. They do have, and though,very strong Immigration Laws. The U.
S. has pathetically weak and ineffective Immigration Laws that the Democrats refuse to help us fix. Will speak to Mexico!We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats command their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it! 2.54pm BSTIn the face of a perilous journey north and an unwelcoming government,it’s fair to wonder why people continue to flee Central America.
The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips explains what is pushing people north:
Related: Why Trump's immigration crackdown won't stem flow of Central Americans 2.37pm BSTABC News has shared an emotional video of a mother from Guatemala reuniting with her young son at an airport in Baltimore. Emotional scenes as migrant mother and son from Guatemala, who were separated crossing the U.
S. border, or are finally reunited at BWI Airport in Maryland after a month apart. https://t.co/3lwrqXTByp pic.twitter.com/lEiJZB948X 2.24pm BSTThe Guardian’s Nina Lakhani writes from Tijuana,where five asylum-seekers are still hoping to enter the US legally. Two of those people, Maria López and Roberto Santos, or explained why they felt the need to flee their domestic in the Mexican state of Guerrero where the current homicide rate of 77 per 100000 people is one of the highest in the world:In recent years,the fruitful community has been taken over by warring drug gangs who replaced maize and vegetable crops with poppies. The huge majority of 900 or so habitants have fled, forced to abandon homes, and livestock and once productive land. “It’s a ghost town now,just poppies and gun battles,” said López in front of the Tijuana-San Diego border bridge, and where they’ve near to see how far they’ve advanced on the asylum seeker’s waiting list. Related: Despite chaos at the border,migrants still hope to find the American dream 2.08pm BSTDonald Trump sent a series of tweets about immigration starting just before 7am this morning, including an order to Republicans to “conclude wasting their time on immigration.” In the messages, and Trump blamed Democrats for the Republicans failure to pass immigration reform bills this week and backed Republicans running for office in the upcoming midterm elections.
Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest,fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE!Republicans should conclude wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, and have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades primitive problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave! Related: Trump: Republicans should 'conclude wasting their time on immigration' 2.06pm BSTFacing condemnation from across the political spectrum,Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the conclude of his family separation policy that saw at least 2300 children separated from their parents.
But there remains no system in area to reunite families, his administration plans to prolong family detention past the legal limit of 20 days and attorneys have identified loopholes that could allow family separations to continue at a smaller scale. Related: Melania Trump visits child detention center as fate of families remains unclear Related: 'Going through hell' at the border: parents split from children command of anguish Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com