Dr. Christine Eady MannVerified account

So, not only do they have to figure out how to survive in a county they do not know where they have no money, shelter, food, or job, they have to figure out how to get back to Laredo for their asylum claims.

Contrast that with the migrants who had been coming to the shelter. They were released to families and sponsors in the US to await their hearings. They are safe and with people they know. They are with people who can help them get to their hearings.

Another twist: their hearings, the ones for the migrants staying with relatives and sponsors in the US, are conducted at locations close to where they are staying. They do not have to travel back to Laredo.

So because of the Trump Administration’s new Migrant “Protection” Policy (MPP), we are sending people seeking asylum, a LEGAL process, families, children away. Turning our backs on them and leaving them without resources where they risk falling prey to organized crime and cartels

I’ve been thinking a lot about what to do and I realize that there is only one thing: remove every single person in office who supports this president and his policies. Vote. Them. Out. There is no protest or petition or phone call that is going to change their minds.

Charity, however well meaning, is just a bandaid, and we have no mechanism for providing help to those who have been turned away.