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There are around 700 migrants that have already arrived. Author: Zach Leff Updated: 4:02 AM CDT March 17, 2021
MIDLAND, Texas Senator Kel Seliger has sent a letter to Texas AG, Ken Paxton, asking for an application towards a temporary restraining order.
Seliger wants to stop migrants from coming into Midland County. There are 700 unaccompanied migrants that have already arrived.
“The decision for this placement was made on Friday, March 12th, local officials, however, were never consulted and were not informed until Sunday, March 14th, Seliger said. That evening, the first buses of juveniles started to arrive. I believe the haste and apparent secrecy of this action was designed to avoid soliciting input from local law enforcement, local elected officials, health care services, and educational entities.
Putting the U.S.-Mexico ‘border crisis’ narrative into context
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It may seem ironic, but even as it carried out the cruelest anti-migration policies in decades,
the Trump administration presided over the largest flows of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border since the mid-2000s.
This continued through Donald Trump’s last months in office, which saw migration rise sharply even as stringent pandemic measures made the pursuit of asylum impossible. This shows the futility of declaring war on asylum, and
the inevitability of large migration flows at a time of overlapping security, economic, political, public health, and climate crises.