The Trump administration announced Wednesday that new immigration courts in tents on the Texas border with Mexico will be closed to legal observers, the media and the public.
Immigration lawyers condemned the restrictions as a violation of the due process rights of asylum-seekers.
Federal contractors built the two massive tents along the Rio Grande in the cities of Brownsville and Laredo this summer at a cost of $25 million.
The so-called “port courts” were designed to host hearings for the more than 42,000 asylum-seekers who were returned to Mexico while their cases proceed under the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program that started in January, according to acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan.
Immigration judges in San Antonio will hear those cases over a video link, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.
Members of the public, including reporters and legal observers, will be permitted to watch the proceedings over video from the San Antonio court, the statement said.
Immigration lawyers said they were told judges from the Texas cities of Harlingen and Port Isabel would also be hearing cases from the tent courts.
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Looking at the picture I'm wondering how they managed to put up a few small tents and a bunch of A/C units for ONLY 25 million dollars. It's nice that we are able to offer A/C to criminal aliens since for our children in Baltimore public schools this would be an unaffordable luxury.
ReplyDeleteObserving via direct video feeds will keep the disruptions to a minimum and the courts seeing more asylum seekers per day. The backlog is ridiculous and causes huge expenses and grief to everyone.
ReplyDeleteSend all back to there #$%^holes
ReplyDeleteamen 1:22 - by limiting disruption and keeping order, the left's playbook is deflated
ReplyDelete12:58 he city is one of the highest funded in the country, the problem is the people in charge. People can't wait to get their hands on government money, just look at those jackasses that are arrested for stealing the puerto rico funds.
ReplyDeleteHe needs to order the arrest of newsmen and women! Liars and enemies of the country, they need to be hung! As they said in the war between the states, "The only good newspaper man is a dead one"!
ReplyDeleteBaltimore was given money to fix the heating and AC in those schools. You should be asking where did that money go since nothing got fixed? A full independent outsider audit needs to be done!
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