AZMEX I3 11 JUN 2019
Temporary processing facility to hold 500 and include playground
By: Ciara Encinas
Posted: Jun 11, 2019 03:49 PM MST
Updated: Jun 11, 2019 03:49 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/temporary-processing-facility-to-hold-500-and-include-playground/1085394525
YUMA, Ariz. - Yuma Sector Border Patrol confirmed that instead of the temporary processing center
holding nearly 1,000 detainees, the facility will only hold 500 and have a playground inside.
The temporary facility, being described by agents as soft-sided, will be an addition to the Yuma station.
This will bring the total holding capacity to about 900, between the Yuma, Wellton, and Blythe stations.
Agents said the facility will help them spread out the detainees they have in their custody.
"Just a couple of weeks ago we were seeing over 16,000 illegal aliens in our custody.
We are severely over capacity and this facility will help us alleviate some of that pressure on our border patrol stations,"
said Agent Jose Garibay, Yuma Sector Border Patrol.
Agents added this additional processing facility does not mean they will be able to house those in their custody for a longer period of time.
They said if the situation worsens, they will reassess what is needed to handle the trend along the southern border.
In May, Yuma Sector agents apprehended 5,972 people.
That number is about 15 times the capacity of the three stations only meant to hold 410 people
An official date for the facility to be up and running is still unknown.
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Comment: with the exception of Costa Rica, the Central American countries have a very long history of corruption, disfunction,
and violence. They make Mexico look even better.
Thx
Nearly 133-thousand people apprehended by CBP in May
By: CNN
Posted: Jun 08, 2019 04:08 PM MST
Updated: Jun 08, 2019 04:08 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/nearly-133-thousand-people-apprehended-by-cbp-in-may/1084674253
CREDIT: USCBP / Ozzy Trevino
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -
President Trump tweeted Friday he is dropping tariffs on Mexican goods after the country agreed to step up efforts
to stop migrants from entering the U.S.
This may help ease a flood of people coming into the U.S. from Central America.
The numbers haven't looked like this in more than a decade.
Nearly 133-thousand people apprehended by customs and border protection for crossing into the U.S. illegally
in just the month of May.
Families make up the majority of those who cross, more than 11-thousand of them, unaccompanied children.
The acting CBP commissioner, calling it quote: a "full-blown emergency."
Government processing centers and shelters overcrowded, some to dangerous levels,
with unsanitary and unsafe conditions,
according to the department of homeland security's watchdog agency.
"It was so crowded my son had to sleep standing up," said Belkys Castro, a migrant.
Belkys Castro, from Honduras, crossed over into Texas with her two sons in hopes of getting to family in Houston.
Instead, she, along with hundreds of other migrant families were flown to California to make room.
Michael Hopkins with Jewish Family Service said, "We didn't realize that folks would be flown into San Diego.
San Diego's a great place to live. So, it did take us by surprise, but it's apparently 3 planeloads a week.
It's around 135-150 per planeload. We've given up on a logic model to this whole matter.
There is no logic model."
The reasons for the surge in migration are layered.
Right now, people who live in Guatemala and Honduras are facing intense economic and environmental conditions.
With ever-present violence and a drought that is limiting food availability.
Critics of the white house say this most recent extreme spike in movement is a direct result of the president's policies.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, (D) Oregon, said, "They're saying the big change is the message that this is your last chance.
President Trump, if you're ever going to escape these dire circumstances.
You have to come now."
As president trump focuses on beefing up security, a wall, more border patrol agents and adding u-s troops.
Brig. Gen. Walter Duzzny with the US Army said,
"Today we have approximately 2000 service members supporting the mission along the southwest border."
Experts say smugglers are becoming more sophisticated.
It is likely they won't be deported in large numbers, at least right away.
Focusing far more on success stories from neighbors than threats from the white house
Mexico has agreed to deploy its national guard to the country's southern border to stop central American migrants there.
Mexico will also accept migrants turned away at the U.S. border as they await consideration of their asylum claims.
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