AZMEX I3 UPDATE 28 NOV 2018
Note: photos, etc. at link. " the country's inability to police its own borders"
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Pastors: Phoenix-area churches receiving migrant families awaiting asylum daily
Carissa Planalp
Updated 8 hrs ago | Posted on Nov 27, 2018 0
https://www.azfamily.com/news/pastors-phoenix-area-churches-receiving-migrant-families-awaiting-asylum-daily/article_ead1d56c-f2c9-11e8-b5e3-93d38da1940a.html
As dozens of asylum seekers arrived at a Mesa church, it could be years before they find out if they are granted asylum.
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Churches across the Valley say they're taking in migrant families on a daily basis.
Two unmarked buses pulled up to New Hope Church near Southern Avenue and Mesa Driver in Mesa on Tuesday night to drop off about 100 individuals.
Pastor Magdalena Schwartz said they were families, adults with children. She said most of them were from Central America and seeking asylum.
Schwartz is part of a network of faith groups that say they are taking in 100 to 150 migrants daily.
Asylum cases can drag on because of the federal government's lack of resources.
(Source: 3TV/CBS 5)
"Because the children, they are innocent, they're hungry, they're cold, they're scared," said Schwartz.
"We still can be lovely people. We still can have mercy. We still can open our arms and say to anybody, 'You are welcome.'"
[RELATED: Phoenix area churches say they've helped 600 migrant families in last 2.5 weeks]
Because of a backlog in asylum applications, immigration attorney Ruben Reyes says the families will likely wait years before a judge determines whether to grant them asylum.
Reyes is the elected director for the board of American Immigration Lawyers Association.
He says asylum cases can drag on because of the federal government's lack of resources.
[RELATED: Homeland Security buses nearly 100 asylum seekers to Phoenix church]
"There are limited immigration judges. There is limited time," says Reyes.
"If you can't run through all your evidence in two hours, you're going to have to continue the matter."
[RELATED: Big numbers of Central Americans arriving at Arizona border]
Pastor Magdalena Schwartz said they were families, adults with children.
(Source: 3TV/CBS 5)
Reyes says migrants can offer a number of justifications for asylum.
"Economic refugees generally do not qualify," says Reyes. "However, if you delve a little deeper into why they're here, the persecution by gangs, the lawlessness,
the country's inability to police its own borders and within its own borders,
can actually rise to the level of asylum."
[RELATED: ICE ending practice of coordinating plans for asylum-seeking families in Arizona]
Reyes says even domestic violence can constitute asylum if someone's home country does not have protections for women.
There have been failed attempts, Reyes says, to restrict what situations warrant asylum.
Two unmarked buses pulled up to New Hope Church near Southern Avenue and Mesa Drive in Mesa
on Tuesday night to drop off about 100 individuals.
Asylum is supposed to begin at a port of entry.
While there is a process for applying for asylum from someone's home country, Reyes says, for some, it's not safe.
[RELATED: ICE drops off hundreds of asylum seekers at Phoenix-area churches]
"Not everybody has the benefit or the freedom to do so in the sense that they are in immediate danger," says Reyes.
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Thirty migrants from the LGTB community leave Nogales
Details Published on Tuesday, November 27, 2018,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=121523
Nogales, Son
A group of 30 Central and South American migrants belonging to the LGTB community who arrived the week before in Nogales,
departed for the Agua Prieta, Sonora border since last weekend.
The coordinator of the Municipal Civil Protection Unit, César Gómez Madrid, said that only 17 applicants to apply for political asylum in the United States
stayed in the shelter of the Integral Family Development System (DIF).
He confirmed that between Friday and Saturday there were 30 of them in "combis" who rented with their own resources
and indicated that until this Tuesday morning, there were 17 people left although he did not know if they would stay longer on this border.
The municipal official added that the reason they decided to migrate
was because they did not want to wait so long to present their request for humanitarian asylum in the United States,
because here they have to wait for the turn in the list and thought they would arrive and cross as with nothing.
"We do not know that the 17 who stayed here are waiting for more migrants to arrive, if that is why they stayed," added Gómez Madrid.
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