We talked to the woman a short time later. She said the officers told her to come back tomorrow morning because they didn’t have room for her. You can see from the video that she was several feet in the U.S. when turned back. 2/5
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At a bridge linking El Paso and Juárez this morning, @tristan_claudia and I witnessed CBP officers block a Honduran woman and her son, who were in the U.S., from making an asylum claim. The actions by the officers are illegal, according to lawyers I’ve interviewed. 1/5pic.twitter.com/hioIhmXMGA
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Lawyers for
@ACLU and other groups have said that U.S. law requires federal officers to process anyone who says they wish to make an asylum claim.@dlind from@voxdotcom had a good explainer of the law this week. 3/5 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/5/17428640/border-families-asylum-illegal …Show this thread -
The woman we saw intercepted was traveling with a group of other Hondurans, who also told
@tristan_claudia and I that they had been turned back by CPB officers at the top of the bridge. 4/5pic.twitter.com/rrg2kDRC86
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Here’s my story for
@texasmonthly from last Saturday on CBP telling asylum seekers that they have no room and the migrants will have to come back later. 5/5https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/immigrant-advocates-question-legality-of-latest-federal-tactics/ …Show this thread -
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Bob, did you take this video, of the Honduran woman and her son, or did Claudia do so? I am reporting on it for The Intercept and need to ID the shooter. Thanks!
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We both shot on our cellphones. This tweet has Bob’s video that he shot on his phone. I tweeted my own and then retweeted his too.
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