Thread: African Asylum Seekers Stuck In Mexico ‘Not Happy’ With US Immigration System

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African Asylum Seekers Stuck In Mexico ‘Not Happy’ With US Immigration System



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Jason Hopkins Immigration and politics reporter
July 08, 20193:58 PM ET

African migrants are expressing frustration over the Trump administration’s metering policy, which caps the number of asylum seekers who can enter the U.S. each day.
“We are not happy with the U.S. system, especially for the fact that you see that the number is not moving. Very few people are taken,” Luis, a migrant from Cameroon, said to the Los Angeles Times. “If you see people jumping over the river, it is because they are tired of staying here.”

Luis and hundreds of other migrants have set up camp in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Acuna as they wait for their turn to cross the border and lodge an asylum claim in the U.S. He is also one of a growing number of African migrants who have traveled thousands of miles to reach the U.S.-Mexico border — a perplexing phenomenon as the immigration crisis has largely been made up of families and children from Central American.
Border Patrol is reporting a “dramatic” rise in the number of African migrants appearing before agents. More than 500 individuals from the continent were apprehended in the Del Rio Sector alone between May 30 and June 5, according to Customs and Border Protection. In the first four months of 2019, the number of African migrants registered by Mexican authorities tripled in comparison to the same time period last year.
Most of these African migrants are from Cameroon, Congo and Angola.
President Donald Trump implemented metering in his first year in office. Under the policy, only limited number of asylum seeker can pass through a port of entry and make their claim. In the meantime, would-be asylum seekers on the Mexican side of the border are put on a list and must wait until their turn is next — a process that could take months.

The policy has proven effective at keeping migrants at bay.
The Associated Press estimated in May that around 13,000 people were waiting in Mexico to claim U.S. asylum. Thousands of immigrants have been sent back to the other side of the border under another policy known as “Remain in Mexico,” a program that mandates immigrants wait in Mexico as their asylum claims are processed through the U.S court system. More than 15,000 migrants who illegally entered the U.S. and claimed asylum have been booted back to Mexico since January.



Haitian migrants seeking asylum in the United States, are pictured at the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, in Baja California, on October 6, 2016. AFP / Guillermo Arias (Photo credit should read GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images)

In the city of Ciudad Acuna, the wait list reportedly reached 500, with the Los Angeles Times guessing the actual number was closer to 700. People waiting to get in have since formed a camp near the Rio Grande, where hundreds live until their names reach the top of the list.

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While African migrants are reportedly dissatisfied with the long wait times and unsanitary conditions of the camp, many of them are choosing to stay put.

“It is far better than anything we have seen in our country,” Luis said to the Los Angeles Times. “In our nation, we slept with corpses.”

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Travelled "thousands of miles" to get here illegally.

Could have stayed in ANY of those countries. Continue to breed in the dirt along the way more mouths they cannot afford to feed. It is disgusting!

They can afford thousands of dollars to get here, pay coyotes, but no money for birth control.

USA is not happy with YOUR invasion and you need to be deported out of Mexico and back home!

Offer assistance of buses and planes and get that backlog out of Mexico and ship them out!

Mexico does not want these people, Mexico keep letting them in!!!

USA does not want these people...deport them all on the spot!

Shut down the failed refugee, asylum, TPS, programs and defund it. We are not the dumping ground for two billion people on the planet! We are taken our "fair share", we are spending billions of our money on this! We want it stopped now.

NO PAPERS
NO ENTRY
NO RIGHTS!

WE OWE YOU PEOPLE NOTHING!

GO HOME AND SOLVE YOUR OWN PROBLEMS!

These folks, assuming they don't speak Spanish, will be released into the United States once their asylum claim is made. The way it sounds they will be here years awaiting their court date.

To qualify for Trump's wait in Mexico, you are required to speak Spanish. All non-Spanish speakers will be released into our interior once their claim is filed.

Don't fool yourself into believing catch & release isn't still alive and thriving!

Americans go to Mexico all the time and do not speak Spanish.

Keep them all out of here!

I do not give a flip what language they speak.

No asylum for any of them!

Fast track them back home! Overbreeding in poverty and not speaking Spanish is not asylum!

Originally Posted by Airbornesapper07

African Asylum Seekers Stuck In Mexico ‘Not Happy’ With US Immigration System

Awwww, that's too f***in bad! The audacity of these people.

I do not want these mouthy, demanding, foreigners in MY country.

They are ungrateful people that come here commit crimes, rob us, mouth off in our streets, demand we "owe" them money, food, housing, and give us the finger.

SEND THEM ALL BACK...GET THEM AWAY FROM OUR BORDER!

KEEP OUT! GO DUMP YOURSELF ON SOME OTHER COUNTRY AND MOUTH OFF!!