Doctors Without Borders issues condemnation of Trump's border policies.

Since 2012, MSF has been providing medical and mental health care in mobile clinics along Mexico's migratory routes toward the United States. Patients describe escaping relentless violence in their home countries. They've survived the death of family members, assault, kidnappings, extortion—both at home and along the migration route. The violence they have endured and the mental trauma they carry are similar to what MSF witnesses in war zones.

Every year, more than half a million people flee El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In survey and medical data from MSF’s programs in Mexico released last year, 55 percent of Salvadoran refugees and migrants reported being victims of blackmail or extortion, 56 percent had a relative who had died due to violence, and 67 percent said they never felt safe at home. In total, 92 percent of the 1,817 migrants and refugees treated by MSF mental health teams in previous years had lived through a violent event in their country of origin or during the route.

Last week, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a ruling that survivors of gang and domestic violence would no longer have grounds to apply for asylum in the US—a sweeping decision that would close the door to most people fleeing threats in Central America. Earlier this year, the Administration revoked Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans and Hondurans living in the United States, ignoring their security concerns.

The ongoing instability in Central America has greatly increased the flow of migrants and refugees in 2018. MSF in Mexico is seeing the largest influx of migrants in shelters where the organization works, particularly women, unaccompanied minors, and families. In the first four months of 2018, the La 72 shelter in Tenosique, Mexico, registered 4,863 people, an increase of 93.5 percent, compared to the same period in 2017. Last year, 90 percent of those assisted by MSF psychologists in three of MSF’s migrant shelters said they had suffered intentional violence, either in their home countries or during their journeys through Mexico. This trend has continued in the first four months of 2018.

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/msf-condemns-trump-administration-policies-criminalize-asylum-seekers?



This is from the people on the ground who know what's true. Not the GOP propaganda machine.