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You might have already heard that yet another migrant caravan is heading to the U.S. border from Honduras. Members of the group have called on the incoming Biden administration to honor their “commitments” to rescind Trump’s restrictions on asylum seekers.
However, on Sunday, a Biden transition official stated that migrants wishing to claim asylum in the U.S. during the first few weeks of the former vice president taking office “need to understand they’re not going to be able to come into the United States immediately,” according to
Fox News reported that “more than 1,000 Honduran migrants moved into Guatemala on Friday without registering as part of a larger caravan that left a Honduran city earlier in the day.”
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Krystal Chavez, who was a toddler when her father started his prison sentence in the early 1990s, said she was looking forward to hugging him for the first time outside of a detention facility. Martha, her sister, said she was hoping her father could finally meet his grandchildren.
The U.S. citizen sisters did not get those opportunities.
Their father, Cipriano Chavez-Alvarez, 62, had his life sentence for a non-violent drug conviction cut short by a federal judge who ordered his compassionate release from prison last July. U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake said Chavez-Alvarez s underlying medical conditions which included lymphoma, kidney disease and diabetes placed him at higher risk of serious injury or death if he contracted the coronavirus while incarcerated.
Texas man admits to smuggling over 3 dozen in refrigerated truck
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Jan. 15, 2021
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A 41-year-old resident of San Antonio has entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
On Oct. 20, 2020, Rodrigo Sanchez approached the I-35 Border Patrol checkpoint driving a refrigerated box truck with “JJ Produce” on the side. Soon after, a K-9 alerted to the presence of contraband in the cargo area. Authorities opened the back of the truck and discovered 37 immigrants, including an unaccompanied minor, concealed behind a false wall blocked by stacks of produce.
Woman falsely accused Houston detention center of rape in ploy to get visa
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Attorneys Jose Sanchez, Michelle Simpson Tuegel and Morgan McPheeters announcing a lawsuit they introduced in court on May 28, 2020, indicating that an immigrant woman they represent was raped by guards at the Houston Processing Center, a detention center administered by CoreCivic for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Courtesy
A Mexican woman who sued the administrators of an immigration detention center in Houston, alleging that she was raped on the premises, dismissed the charges after confessing that she lied with the hope of obtaining a visa designed for victims of certain crimes.