{"id":527114,"date":"2022-12-15T01:39:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/migrants-converging-on-el-paso-fuel-calls-for-border-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T01:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:39:50","slug":"migrants-converging-on-el-paso-fuel-calls-for-border-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/migrants-converging-on-el-paso-fuel-calls-for-border-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"#Migrants converging on El Paso fuel calls for border crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a368df14801b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a368df14801b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/migrants-converging-on-el-paso-fuel-calls-for-border-crackdown\/#Migrants_converging_on_El_Paso_fuel_calls_for_border_crackdown\" >Migrants converging on El Paso fuel calls for border crackdown<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Migrants_converging_on_El_Paso_fuel_calls_for_border_crackdown\"><\/span>Migrants converging on El Paso fuel calls for border crackdown<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/elpaso_border_immigration_121222_AP_Christian-Chavez.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Increased migrant border crossings near El Paso are drawing attention back to the border, as Congress gr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>les with must-pass end of year legislation that could include an immigration deal.<\/p>\n<p>The focus on border chaos has fueled calls for draconian measures, including extending the much-criticized Title 42 border control policy, which was ruled illegal by a federal judge last month and is due to end on Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The crisis in El Paso, where shelters are saturated and some migrants are being forced to sleep in the streets, showcases how an overwhelmed federal asylum program has been unable to keep up with growing hemispheric migration flows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact of the pandemic just imploded economies everywhere, especially in the really badly governed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua,\u201d said Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of that is the same phenomenon that happened even during the Trump years, where people who come in and ask for asylum get to stay here for several years, because our asylum system is so busted up. And then they get on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> and tell everybody back in their community how they got in,\u201d added Isacson.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of a growing external supply of migrants and an overwhelmed system remains unaddressed in U.S. lawmaking, but the endless political debate over immigration have created their own bogeymen and proposals on how to counter them.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday asked his attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, Ken Paxton, to investigate nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for allegedly aiding migrants to cross the border, and a coalition of two Republicans and two conservative Democrats pleaded with the Biden administration to find a way to continue summary expulsions of migrants after Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>Under Title 42, border officials are allowed to expel nationals of certain countries without screening for asylum requests, a measure that\u2019s arguably a violation of U.S. asylum law, but one that greatly reduces the workload for U.S. border officials while avoiding the release of foreign nationals to the interior of the country.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Proponents of stricter border measures have centered their appeals both on the desires of Customs and Border Patrol staff and on a perceived need to minimize the entry of foreign nationals into the United States through the asylum process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s OK to listen to immigration activists, it\u2019s OK to do that, that\u2019s one perspective,\u201d Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), one of the co-signers of the Title 42 extension plea, told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut who\u2019s listening to the men and women in green and blue, and more importantly, who\u2019s listening to our border communities?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Cities along the border, like El Paso, have long complained that they are unfairly burdened with providing social services to new immigrants, many of whom are in the early days of adjusting to life in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But the plea for the interior to share the burden of onboarding newcomers to the country has become inextricably linked with the push to further gut the asylum process and attempt to seal the border.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Republicans show no signs of easing off on criticism of the Biden administration\u2019s border policies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pushing its own plan to shrink the asylum system.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Biden administration, which is appealing the Title 42 ruling in court, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/biden-plan-cut-migrants-border-transit-ban-miller-trump-rcna61367\">has been leaking details of future plans<\/a> to limit the number of people who qualify for asylum, essentially delivering another punch to a dilapidated system.<\/p>\n<p>According to several reports, DHS plans to enact a \u201ctransit ban,\u201d taking yet another page from the Trump administration\u2019s menagerie of draconian immigration measures.<\/p>\n<p>That transit ban would require the collaboration of third countries, most likely Mexico, to take in people who left their countries to seek asylum in the United States but were denied.<\/p>\n<p>But most regional migration experts agree that such a plan, even if it succeeded in returning a large number of people to Mexico, would do little to quell migration flows in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of Latin America is sort of a lost decade at this point. People are a lot hungrier, and you layer on droughts and floods, storms and all the other things that are going on, there\u2019s more reason to leave,\u201d said Isacson.<\/p>\n<p>And security conditions in Mexico have worsened, at times provoking mass runs on the border, like the push on El Paso over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A substantial number of the migrants requesting asylum in El Paso are Nicaraguan nationals \u2014 ineligible for Title 42 processing \u2014 who entered Mexico in late November and were given 30 days to cross the country.<\/p>\n<p>About 1,500 of those migrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing on 50 buses, were kidnapped Dec. 2 by an armed group near the city of G\u00f3mez Palacio, some 450 miles south of El Paso.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elheraldodechihuahua.com.mx\/local\/chihuahua\/narran-migrantes-el-secuestro-que-sufrieron-por-policias-federales-disfrazados-9310339.html\">According to local daily El Heraldo de Chihuahua<\/a>, the Mexican National Guard \u2014 a militarized federal police force \u2014 accidentally stumbled onto the safe houses where the migrants were kept, and the kidnappers fled.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThey were freed by the authorities, and then basically the authorities just put them on buses towards the border so that they could be whisked out of the country,\u201d said Isacson.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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