Abbott's Operation To Arrest Immigrants At The Texas Border Is Actually Helping Some Asylum-Seekers

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A border operation launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to arrest undocumented immigrants has inadvertently helped asylum-seekers who would have normally been turned away to stay in the US, sometimes outside of detention facilities.

Since Operation Lone Star started in March, state authorities have arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants on state crimes for trespassing. It was created to combat human trafficking and drug smuggling by "filling the gaps" Abbott said are created when Border Patrol agents are preoccupied with apprehending immigrants. This summer, Abbott directed state troopers and Texas National Guard members to go to the border to arrest immigrants suspected of entering the US without authorization on state charges in an effort to deter others.

But those arrests have led to unintended consequences. Currently, most immigrants at the border are being blocked from accessing the US asylum system since the Biden administration has continued to use a policy invoked by former president Donald Trump, known as Title 42, that cites the pandemic as justification to quickly expel immigrants at the border to Mexico or their home countries. However, some people arrested under Operation Lone Star have not only been able to stay in the US but also file asylum applications.

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA), which is providing legal aid to some immigrants swept up in Operation Lone Star, said that of the 120 asylum-seekers it has post-release information about, 115 of them have been able to stay and pursue their cases in the US.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-inadvertently-helping-asylum-seekers-193056407.html

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1. The Biden administration was ordered to leave tfg program in place..it isn't Biden's choice

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2. open your wallets and give!

https://www.trla.org/donate