'By law, these migrants are supposed to be exempt from the Remain in Mexico policy—but [CBP] had decided to ignore their due process,' 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro said.
Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro has accused the Trump administration of ignoring"due process" after he escorted 12 asylum seekers to the U.S. border only to learn they had been forced to return to Mexico hours later.
Detention under the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the asylum seekers said, would be better than being forced to wait another day in Mexico.According to Castro there was also at least one member of the group living with a disability. According to Human Rights First, as many as 340 violent attacks, including instances of kidnapping, rape and torture, were reported just last month among asylum seekers forced to return to Mexico under the policy.
Noting that vulnerable cases should be excluded from the Remain in Mexico policy, Castro said that"by law, these migrants are supposed to be exempt from the Remain in Mexico policy—but [Customs and Border Protection] had decided to ignore their due process. Outrageous." The Texas Civil Rights Project asserted that its clients were in CBP custody for a total of three hours,"which means that each person had less than 15 minutes for their non-refoulement interviews."
"Everyone on the ground here knows it, and now we can prove it. There is no intention to protect migrants in the so-called 'Remain in Mexico.' Trump's intent is to hide the cruelty of his administration away from our eyes," it added.
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