At the border, the new normal is this: depending on where and when asylum-seekers cross, they can be put into any of a number of programs that are designed to get them off US soil as quickly as possible. 2/
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The Trump admin has piloted & expanded several of these programs. There’s MPP (“Remain in Mexico”), which hasn’t attracted much public attn despite some GREAT reporting on it (I’ll link @ end of thread). 3/
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More recently, they’ve started favoring HARP/PACR, designed to quickly deport families, & ACA, which sends ppl to Guatemala instead of letting them apply for asylum in the US. 4/
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Together, I've started thinking of this patchwork of “pilot” programs (which inevitably expand) as parts of the same strategy — which in my head I've started calling "catch and disperse." 5/
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But none of these policies actually covers _everyone_ arriving at the border. Which program each migrant is put into — if any at all — is pretty much totally up to Border Patrol. I met a Honduran family split in two: father/son put into MPP, mother/daughter allowed to stay. 6/
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The problem is that Border Patrol doesn’t have a great track record with care in paperwork and processing. In the past, other agencies could catch this. Now, it’s (as one lawsuit says) a “legal black hole.”7/
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On one level, this is the story of a mistake — the fact that after this family was told to board different buses to the same Border Patrol station, no one ever bothered to reunite them. 8/
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But we have no idea how many of these “mistakes” there are. There’s no way to fix them. Border Patrol simply has near-absolute power over migrants’ fates — no matter how carelessly those decisions are made. There is simply no due process. 9/
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So here’s the story of David and Mirza, two parents who were separated because of carelessness, chaos and a broken system that has avoided outrage for the past year. 10/10https://www.propublica.org/article/women-to-one-side-men-to-the-other-how-the-border-patrol-new-powers-and-old-carelessness-separated-a-family …
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PS as promised: too much great MPP reporting to fit in a tweet but see esp https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-30/remain-in-mexico-one-year-later-how-a-single-policy-transformed-the-u-s-asylum-system … https://www.thisamericanlife.org/688/transcript https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-babies-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-migrant-policy-sends-thousands-of-children-including-babies-back-to-mexico-idUSKBN1WQ1H1 …https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/immigrants-mexico-sending-children-alone-us …
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PPS Sorry the poll-push-notification gambit didn't work, but if you want to keep up with my work more reliably, sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter:http://go.propublica.org/bigstory-social
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