Democratic congresswoman secretly sending staff into Mexico to coach asylum-seekers
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A Democratic congresswoman is sending staff to Mexico’s northern border town of Ciudad Juárez to find migrants returned from El Paso, Texas, under the “remain in Mexico” policy, then coaching them to pretend they cannot speak Spanish to exploit a loophole letting them to return to the U.S.
“What we believe is happening is Veronica Escobar’s office is going … to basically second-guess and obstruct work already done by the Border Patrol,” said one senior union official, who shared evidence with the Washington Examiner from concerned CBP managers and rank-and-file members. Those documents have been held to protect identities.
Under the bilateral Migration Protection Protocols, or “Remain in Mexico” policy, anyone returned must be fluent in Spanish because they may have to reside in Mexico up to five years until a U.S. federal judge decides their asylum claim. A Democratic politician's aides reescorting people back to the port are telling officers the Central American individual with them cannot speak Spanish despite their having communicated in it days earlier, CBP officials said.
“What we’re hearing from management is that they’re attempting to return people, and the story was changed in Mexico, where a person who understood Spanish before now doesn’t understand — where a person who didn’t have any health issues before now has health issues," the union representative said.
Escobar's team has sought interviews with 6,000 people who were returned last month, according to one CBP official. The union learned from an intelligence unit within CBP that those doing the interviews are wearing recording devices during the interviews to tape conversations and possibly listen back later.
“They went through and interviewed everybody, cherry-picked them, brought them back, and now are using them as tag lines. They’re going over there and manufacturing a lot of these issues,” said the union official.
All three border officials worried the interviews might be used to suggest the Border Patrol is wrongfully turning away a large number of asylum-seekers.
“We had finally found a happy medium ‘cause we always get crapped on when it comes to immigration laws, and then they’re finding loopholes to bring them back,” the second official said.
Mark H. Metcalf, a former federal immigration judge during the George W. Bush administration, said the involvement of Escobar's office was likely "more of a stunt than a genuine threat to the integrity of the process."
"She's trying to obviously say these people have been wrongly denied their claims and they're waiting when they shouldn't be," said Metcalf.
However, he said a criminal case would exist if Escobar were found to be complicit in an effort to perpetrate a fraud, which would have to include knowingly injecting false statements during interviews, follow-up conversations, and documents presented to U.S. officials.
A Department of Homeland Security official aware of the situation said Democrats, nonprofit organizations, and 2020 hopefuls "are furious that these migrants" are not permitted to "await their court dates in the U.S., where they have the opportunity to disappear and slip into the interior never to be seen again."
"By opposing a system that assists migrants and speeds wait times, these individuals are exposing a cause that looks more like a cover story for their political motivations. Any efforts to subvert and obstruct federal law enforcement operations should receive a full review," the Homeland Security official said in a text.
In one incident, an Escobar aide and diocese official walked a male migrant over the bridge in June and asked for him to be admitted into the U.S. because they had found he had "cognitive disabilities." Officers took the boy and turned the case over to the Border Patrol, where an agent found a Constituent Information and Privacy Release Form with the U.S. House of Representatives seal on it inside the 17-year-old's file. Two officials said the paper would have to have been put in his file while he was interviewed in Mexico and was not supposed to have been left there because it would reveal to the Border Patrol that a member of Congress or their staff was meeting with migrants in Mexico.
The boy has since returned to Mexico because the medical condition was not diagnosed by a medical professional but by an aide of the congresswoman, one official said Friday.
“Management saw that form and was like, ‘What is this?’ and reached out to our International Liaison Unit. And ILU said, ‘Yes, Veronica Escobar and several other politicians are in Mexico trying to defeat the MPP program,'" the union said.
Officials only discussed one port of entry in El Paso but said they knew of three other incidents where Escobar's aides had walked back a “Remain in Mexico” program recipient.
In another confirmed case, a female migrant was brought back to the port after claiming to have been raped in Juarez.
The union official said the onslaught of interviews suggests federal resources are being misspent.
“Resources are being diverted into a foreign country in an attempt to reverse already-decided legal action, meaning these people were found inadmissible under a new program and they must remain in Mexico. They’re trying to subvert that,” the official said.
Escobar's office did not return a request for comment.
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Liberals are doing everything they can to bring people into the country. Power resides in countering the American voter.
Trump is off topic
Race is off topic
Seems to me they are doing whatever is both legal and illegal in a desperate attempt to harvest as many votes as possible - the story needs to be told to the public but don't expect the left-leaning media to spread it effectively. I'm sure that the more America hears about these stories of subversion, the more it will increase the resolve of legal American voters.
How about you spread it by telling me how does allowing asylum seekers into the country harvest votes Buzz?
Well I'm sure the more Americans would rather have the FACTS. Trump and his sycophants whine about 'unnamed sources' and that's all this seed has.
Read the article. They are sneaking unqualified or already refused asylum seekers into the country.
I believe that an article on "vote harvesting" was recently posted on NT. Did you read it?
Yes, I read the article and NOWHERE does it say that ANYONE 'sneaked unqualified or already refused asylum seekers into the country.'
In FACT it clearly states that they were turned over to the CBP.
I didn't ask you about some article, I asked you about YOUR posit. Please support it.
Gee, where did you see any evidence in the seed that proves that an asylum seeker LIED to ANYONE?
Ooooo, 'the official said'.
So where is the sneaking into the country part?
Oh and BTFW, Congressional aids go to 'foreign countries' all the time.
As for the 'new program', that is being litigated right now and another Union, that represents asylum officials has filed an amicus brief calling for the end of the MPP. I notice that was left out to the article...
I asked for evidence Tex, NOT the opinion of the author.
Wow, I wonder how the agent found that Constituent Information and Privacy Release Form? Could it be that the Escobar aide put it in the file that was GIVEN to the CBP at the port of entry?
I also wonder WHO at CBP leaked that document to the press. Y'all are all about tracking down who illegally leaked documents right?
BTFW, if Escobar is 'secretly sending' aides to Mexico, WHY do the CBP know all about the aide's affiliation with the Dioecies?
This 'sneaking' and 'secretly' is utter bullshit.
You replied to my comment:
With a quote from the seed that is unresponsive. It's intellectually lazy and dishonest to try to deny that you CHOSE to address the fact that the article does NOT state that ANYONE 'sneaked into the country'.
Instead of doing so, you bitch and whine about ME. Well done Tex. Great 'tactics'.
Perhaps you can find where I said you disputed it. I'm merely disputing the implications of a part of the quote you CHOSE to post. Your decision to internalize it is on you.
Yet neither you or the seed provides one iota of EVIDENCE that any laws or rules have been violated. Innuendo from 'an official' or a 'union representative' or the author of the seed doesn't cut it.
The ONLY source actually named in the seed said this:
To some here it's beneficial.
So you don't think that the agent found it and that it didn't belong in the file?
It's a release for that allows the Congresswoman to collect confidential information from the asylum seeker. If that person WAS allowed across the bridge that day, he/she would have been a constituent of the Congresswoman.
So leaks you like are fine, leaks your don't aren't. Got ya.
The fraternity here.
I asked you a simple question, why do you persist on internalizing everything?
That's the second time that you've confused a question with an argument.
Translation: I have no answer...
Yet you use them prolifically.
Can't handle questions about the content of the seed. Got ya.
You should understand that wasn't the post I was replying to.
Sad deflection.
You didn't ask any questions.
Tried to send this is a PN.
Your reply to Dulay confused me. Was there a reason for the BBBUUZZZZZ?
Were you addressing me or Dulay?
Actually, this could be considered
1) A breach of her Oath of Office
2) Actual Treason since she is aiding and abetting possible enemies since they cannot be verified from whence they came originally.
"A Democratic congresswoman is sending staff to Mexico’s"
Sounds like an illegal use of taxpayer's money
There is no way this helps the taxpaying Citizens of the USA