As Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers began processing migrants previously halted in Mexico by the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), officials within the government issued the following statements regarding the process in El Paso. Statement from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “Today in El Paso, we began processing a limited number of individuals who were […]Read More
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice on Friday announced plans for how they will resume hearings for asylum seekers currently in the Migrant Protection Protocols after court dates were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program, also called remain in Mexico, requires that most asylum seekers wait in Mexico for […]Read More
A federal appeals court in California halted the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” immigration policy on Friday, a blow to the president’s restrictive immigration agenda that cripples one of the government’s approaches to curbing migration across the U.S. southern border. The program — officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP — called for pushing asylum seekers […]Read More
A year of Remain in Mexico has damaged enough human lives, hurt enough families and chipped away far too much at our country’s commitment to life, dignity and the protections that should be afforded to asylum seekers and refugees. It is unfortunate that on this sad anniversary the government should expand this indefensible program to […]Read More
Oscar, who was living in Ciudad Juárez after fleeing Honduras, said he was badly beaten in September on his way to find work simply for being Central American. His teeth were knocked out and he was repeatedly clubbed in the head. In July, Luis Emilio, a 22-year old Ecuadoran migrant, was sent back to Mexico after spending everything […]Read More
CIUDAD JUÁREZ – Nicolas Palazzo can’t clone himself. And even if he could, it would still be impossible for the El Paso-based immigration attorney to provide legal services to the thousands of migrants waiting in the border city for their asylum hearings in the United States. “Each time I travel to Juárez and cross the […]Read More
TUCSON — Department of Homeland Security officials who are concerned about the rising number of migrant families crossing from Mexico into the Arizona desert are preparing to bus them more than 300 miles east into Texas so that they can deposit them in Mexico instead of releasing them in the United States, according to two […]Read More
After being detained in a U.S. Border Patrol processing facility for more than seven weeks, a young Central American woman was finally able to tell immigration Judge Nathan Herbert the most harrowing part of her journey to the United States. “I was separated from my daughter. I need to be with her,” the woman, who […]Read More
On Thursday, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso and clergy of the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez participated in the binational ‘Faith Action’ at the Stanton Street bridge in Downtown El Paso. As the temperatures in the area soared above 100 degrees, Bishiop Seitz, Rev. Javier Calvill and scores of migrants met and marched […]Read More
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