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U.S. NEWS Saturday 11 July 2020
Continued from Front the family.
The change made in The family waded across
March is evident in figures the Rio Grande to Eagle
released Thursday: The Pass, Texas, trapped in a
Border Patrol in June put strong current for hours.
27,535 people on a track After surrendering to the
to expulsion under the pub- Border Patrol, they were re-
lic health emergency and turned to Mexico to wait for
made only 2,859 arrests un- a hearing in Laredo, Texas.
der immigration law. More than 60,000 people
Chad Wolf, the acting have been forced to wait
Homeland Security sec- in Mexico for hearings un-
retary, boasted that most der a policy introduced last
expulsions are carried out year called "Migrant Pro-
within two hours. tection Protocols."
The special powers will ex- Alexy said the family was
pire when the pandemic held at gunpoint on a taxi
ends, but Trump administra- ride to the Laredo border
tion officials have proposed crossing by unidentified
a string of regulations over men in bulletproof vests
the last month to put asy- who released them un-
lum further out of reach. harmed but forced them
The proposals instruct judg- to miss their March 25 hear-
es to be more selective and ing. A judge rescheduled In this Nov. 10, 2019, file photo, migrants gather at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, to
deny some claims without for Sept. 30. hear names called from a waiting list to claim asylum in the U.S.
a hearing. On Wednes- After Alexy lost a job as a Associated Press
day, the administration security guard, still rattled
proposed denying asylum by the holdup and spooked cure legal status. He said er in the U.S. to fight their Ebadolahi is slower to opine
to people from countries by talk of child abductions, they should have settled in case. on the legality of expelling
with widespread commu- the family left Monterrey for Mexico. She believes the authori- the newborn, a U.S. citizen.
nicable disease.Most of the Tijuana. "Asylum has been so widely ties broke the law by twice She said it was done to
people crossing the border Alexy said drug dealers used as a gambit for illegal refusing to have an asylum keep him with his mother.
illegally are now Mexican and users made going immigration that honestly I officer interview the family "To me that's less a pure
adults — a change from outside unsafe in Tijuana, don't believe it anymore," about their fears of being question of law and more
the recent past, when they prompting them to try the said Krikorian, echoing returned to Mexico — first a question of what country
were predominantly Cen- United States again to ask views of the president and in Texas and again in Cali- we want to be," she said.
tral American families and for asylum. other hard-liners. "I as- fornia. "The cruelty is staggering."q
children. The Associated Alexy believes hiking in sume that anyone crossing
Press agreed to identify the San Diego mountains through Mexico and apply-
the Honduran family using precipitated Karina's la- ing for asylum (in the U.S.) Comet streaking
only their middle names bor. He felt helpless when is lying until proven other-
because of fears for their agents separated them as wise." past Earth, providing
safety. her pain intensified, shut- Last week, a federal ap-
A year ago, the family fled tling him and his son back peals court and a district spectacular show
the steamy, tropical low- to the border. "They didn't judge blocked a Trump pol-
lands of northwest Hon- tell me anything. They said icy to deny asylum to any-
duras, where the father they might return my wife one who passes through By MARCIA DUNN ters) across. Its nucleus is
worked in a shoe factory later," he said in a phone another country on the AP Aerospace Writer covered with sooty mate-
and gang violence was interview from Tijuana. way to the U.S. border with CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. rial dating back to the ori-
rampant. The father was Karina was crying when she Mexico without first seeking (AP) — A newly discov- gin of our solar system 4.6
held with a gun to his head called two days later with protection there. ered comet is streaking billion years ago.
while his son cried, leading their newborn in Tijuana. Jewish Family Service wants past Earth, providing a The comet will be visible
to a beating that required In response to questions the family released in the stunning nighttime show across the Northern Hemi-
stitches to the boy's head, about the case, CBP said United States, where they after buzzing the sun and sphere until mid-August,
the father said. Friday that it does not com- have relatives, to argue expanding its tail. when it heads back to-
They applied for refugee ment on pending litigation their asylum case in court. Comet Neowise — the ward the outer solar sys-
status in Mexico and were — the expulsion author- Together with the Ameri- brightest comet visible tem. While it's visible with
cleared for humanitarian ity is under legal challenge can Civil Liberties Union from the Northern Hemi- the naked eye in dark
visas in February but did — but underscored that of San Diego & Imperial sphere in a quarter-cen- skies with little or no light
not complete the process agents can make excep- Counties, the group on Fri- tury — swept within Mer- pollution, binoculars are
in the southern state of Chi- tions for humanitarian or day asked the Homeland cury's orbit a week ago. needed to see the long
apas, said Carlos Gonzalez other reasons. Security Department's in- Its close proximity to the tail, according to NASA.
Gutierrez, Mexico's consul The agency has only ternal watchdog to investi- sun caused dust and gas It will be about 7,000 years
general in San Diego. about 100 people in cus- gate what happened. to burn off its surface and before the comet returns,
They had moved to the tody, down from more ACLU attorney Mitra Eba- create an even bigger "so I wouldn't suggest
northern city of Monterrey than 19,000 at the peak of dolahi calls it "a perfect debris tail. Now the com- waiting for the next pass,"
because they were being last year's surge of asylum- storm of inhumanity." The et is headed our way, said the telescope's dep-
followed by a man who seeking families from Cen- family waited in Mexico with closest approach in uty principal investigator
said he wanted to take tral America. for months as instructed, two weeks. Joe Masiero of NASA's Jet
the 9-year-old under his Mark Krikorian, executive leaving for San Diego only NASA's Neowise infrared Propulsion Laboratory in
wing and a Mexican of- director of the Center for when they felt physically space telescope discov- Pasadena, California.
ficial told them they could Immigration Studies, said threatened, she said. ered the comet in March. He said it is the bright-
travel freely, according to U.S. authorities handled Ebadolahi said U.S. authori- Scientists involved in the est comet since the mid-
Luis Gonzalez, an attorney the case properly and ac- ties should have exercised mission said the comet is 1990s for stargazers in the
for Jewish Family Service of cused the family of trying their significant discretion about 3 miles (5 kilome- Northern Hemisphere.
San Diego who represents to use the newborn to se- to keep the family togeth-