A Salvadoran man seeking asylum in the U.S. was abducted and assassinated in Tijuana’s Mexican border town where he was sent to wait for his asylum court hearing under a U.S .- instituted immigration protection program launched by the US President Donald Trump. Mexican authorities said the man was “dismembered” and they are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.
Since Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) was launched in January, 2019 — 54,000 migrants have been sent to wait in Mexico for their U.S. immigration court hearings. A report released last week by the New York City-based organization. Human Rights First found at least 636 publicly reported cases of kidnapping, rape, torture, assault, and other violent attacks against migrants sent to Mexico under the program.
Critics of MPP have argued that the migrants affected by the initiative, mostly from the impoverished and violence-plagued countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, are at risk in Mexico even these immigrants speak Spanish, but don’t belong to Mexico and have different cultural and traditional customs.
“They sent us back. We said Tijuana was really dangerous, there was a lot of crime but they didn’t listen to us. They said that they couldn’t do anything because those were Trump’s orders,” the man’s widow said. The widow and her lawyer asked for her and her husband’s name to remain anonymous for security and safety reasons.
Migrant-rights advocates estimate that, to date, a dozen people have been granted asylum under M.P.P. The U.S. government has filed appeals in almost all of the cases. In September, the Department of Homeland Security opened two tent courts along the border, in Laredo and Brownsville, where as many as four hundred asylum seekers in M.P.P. program can be processed each day. People who show up at ports of entry for their hearings will be sent directly to these makeshift courts, rather than to brick-and-mortar courthouses. The rationale behind this plan, according to a report in the Washington Post, is for U.S. authorities “to give asylum seekers access to the U.S. court system without giving them physical access to the United States.” Kevin McAleenan, the acting Secretary of Homeland Security, said, “We are bringing integrity to the system.”
The legality of M.P.P. has been challenged, most notably by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a case against it that came before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday in California. Meanwhile, another recent development has further complicated the legal landscape. In September, the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled to allow a new executive-branch regulation, which effectively ends asylum at the border, to remain in effect for the next several months while it goes through a separate series of court challenges. The ruling now makes it impossible for tens of thousands of migrants to obtain asylum when they reach the U.S., including those who are currently in Mexico under M.P.P. Anyone who arrived at the border after July 16th can only hope to seek what’s called “withholding of removal,” which protects individuals from being sent to countries where they’re likely to be persecuted or tortured. Such orders are more difficult to obtain than asylum, and confer significantly fewer legal benefits.
Asylum seekers have been prohibited from filing their claims at U.S. border crossings for months. Now some are sprinting down vehicle lanes or renting cars to try to make it inside the U.S.
Officials say the migrants’ efforts are causing traffic delays at Arizona crossings because U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had to barricade lanes used by cars legally entering the U.S. from Mexico.
The target of Trump administration remains to pursue a series of policy initiatives aimed at making it harder for people fleeing their homes to seek asylum in the United States, separating families, limiting the number of people processed daily at ports of entry, prolonging detention, and narrowing the grounds of eligibility for asylum.
U. S. Authorities also asking asylum seekers that how did they come to the U. S. Borders and who were the agents, who assisted these asylum seekers to come to the U. S. Borders and assisted them to either enter into the United States or let them reach to the U. S. Borders.
U. S. Immigration authorities also look into the asylum seekers’ cases that how many are really are asylum seekers have the legitimate cases or how many just want to come to the United States on false grounds of asylum claims.
Even many migrants die during their visit to the United States through the jungles and crossing rivers and even become the victims of rapes, and physical abuse. The rape victims are not only the girls crossing the borders or coming to the United States, but boys are also victims of rapes and physical abuse and these immigrants entering into the United States of America are also called donkeys.
