and hit the paywall at wapo, just tried looking it up.

How can this even possibly be legal? It's horrifying. I'm starting to not recognize my own country.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

7. Incognito mode

Reply to happybird (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 04:50 PM

Mar 2019

dalton99a

(81,570 posts)

5. 600 people per day on average are being taken into custody

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 04:49 PM

Mar 2019

https://www.abqjournal.com/1296117/border-patrol-closes-highway-checkpoints-in-new-mexico.html
Border Patrol closes highway checkpoints in New Mexico
By Angela Kocherga / Journal Staff Writer - Las Cruces Bureau
Monday, March 25th, 2019 at 1:08pm

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Border Patrol closed all five highway checkpoints in New Mexico on Saturday and reassigned agents to help with the influx of migrant families and unaccompanied children.

“To process and ensure appropriate care for those in custody, resources, including personnel, have been diverted from other border security priorities,” a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said in a statement.

Border Patrol agents have been coping with a surge in families crossing in the El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico. In the past month in the El Paso and Sunland Park area, agents have been taking on average 600 people a day into custody.

In order to have the manpower to transport and process the large number of migrants, the checkpoints have been temporarily shut down.

angrychair

(8,733 posts)

6. This is disturbing

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 04:49 PM

Mar 2019

I've forwarded that tweet to every Congress critter I've ever heard of and to several major news outlets. Hopefully this gets the attention it deserves.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

8. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment

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Wed Mar 27, 2019, 04:50 PM

Mar 2019

SunSeeker

(51,664 posts)

9. This is an international human rights violation. And a violation of our own laws.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 05:00 PM

Mar 2019

Our own laws state that requests for asylum made at ports of entry are a perfectly legal way to enter our country and we are required to process such requests, not throw the requesters and their entire family in jail...or pen them like animals, as is happening here. We have a humanitarian crisis because Trump is refusing to process asylum seekers.