UPDATED: ICE drops off almost 200 more migrants in El Paso

[DonViejo]

Source: CBS News


UPDATED ON: DECEMBER 26, 2018 / 6:01 AM / CBS NEWS

One-hundred-eighty-six more migrants were released in downtown El Paso, Texas by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Christmas Day, reports the CBS affiliate there, KDBC-TV. That came after approximately 400 were released in the southwest Texas city in the two days before Christmas.

Democratic Congressman Beto O'Rourke, who represents El Paso, said he'd been told some 500 more would be released there Wednesday.

Local nonprofit groups told the station the key difference Tuesday was that they were notified in advance by ICE of the mass release, something the groups and O'Rourke said didn't happen previously.

As a result, the nonprofits were a bit more prepared for the large influx.



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-drops-off-almost-200-more-migrants-in-el-paso/

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UPDATE:

O'Rourke seeks aid for migrants dropped in El Paso

U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas is calling for donations and help after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped off at least 200 migrants at the El Paso, Texas, bus station. (Dec. 26)
AP

4:46 a.m. EST Dec. 26, 2018

video:
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2018/12/26/orourke-seeks-aid-migrants-dropped-el-paso/38797051/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomwashington-topstories

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Wonderful news!! Is this the work of Beto?! Good sign, if so.

[Gothmog]

2. Beto is trying to help

Link to tweet

[pangaia]

3. Beto and the good people of El Paso shouldn't HAVE to help !!

Fucking ICE schmucks should be in prison.

I mean what kind of human being dumps hundreds of helpless people at a bus station ???

[oberliner]

9. You think they should be held in detention centers instead?

Not sure what you are advocating for.

[pangaia]

15. No, of course not.

But to just dump people off having no clue where they are, no warning to 'authorities." No nothin'.

[oberliner]

20. Which authorities?

[LanternWaste]

23. You then believe detention centers are the only available option to bus depots?

What specifically leads you to bring up detention centers as the only option in your inference?

Yosemite?

[oberliner]

24. Yes

What are the other options?

[mpcamb]

12. Dumping is the right word.

ICE is not doing this out of kindness.
It's about creating a crisis for a Democrat in a newly won district.

[idahoblue]

4. Trying to understand this

Are these people being released now free to go wherever they want to? Can they now board a bus to unite with friends or family in the US?
Why is this happening?

I wish them all well and safe travels to their next destination.

[ChiTownDenny]

5. +1

Why were they in custody if they're legal migrants? Why were they released in USA if they're illegal migrants? Why release migrants at a bus station?

[oberliner]

10. Most likely they are being released because they isn't enough room for them in detention centers

They probably have been given dates that they have to appear in immigration court but are free until then - along the lines of the so-called "catch and release" concept.

[MichMan]

6. Failing to understand why this is an issue

The migrants traveled sometimes hundreds of miles to get to Texas to live and work in the US.

ICE just released them in Texas. Wasn't that what the migrant workers wanted in the first place?

[murielm99]

7. Did you read the article?

It explains that they have no legal basis to be here. ICE is trying to refrain from detaining them longer than legally allowed.

The community has few resources. ICE is not being given proper guidance by the government. Of course it is an issue, no matter how you feel about the migrants.

[MichMan]

8. Yes I read it

Are you saying that they should have been detained illegally for a longer period of time rather than being released ? Or deported ?

[murielm99]

13. Are you putting words in my mouth?

If so, why?

Neither ICE nor the community have a good way of handling the large number of migrants. The article points this out.

[oberliner]

11. Isn't that the idea behind "catch and release" ?

The practice of releasing a migrant to the community while he or she awaits hearings in immigration court, as an alternative to holding them in immigration detention.

[murielm99]

14. Would you like hundreds of people

with no resources released into your community?

No one has a good answer here. No solutions or guidelines are being provided by our government.

I asked if you read the article. Did you?

[pangaia]

17. Tell me about it..

[oberliner]

18. The options are to hold them in detention centers or to release them

[pangaia]

16. I can not believe some of the comments here implying that there is nothing wrong with this.

Just stupefied !!

[oberliner]

19. What are you advocating for?

It is not clear to me what you are saying ought to be done - it seems you are opposed to detention and you are opposed to release - what are the other options?

[SharonAnn]

21. I think ths issue is that the relevant agencies weren't informed so they could help the people.

They were just dumped off at the Geyhound station.

There are several charitable organizations that are usually notified so that they can be there and help the people.

The agencies weren't notified. So the people were just dropped off with no coordinating help from the agencies.

[murielm99]

22. Thank you for making sense.

Not everyone in this thread has done that.

I think some people here like to argue just for the sake of it.

[oberliner]

25. So if those charitable agencies had been notified then this would not have been objectionable?