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Illegal Aliens Sue Border Patrol. The Lawsuit's Outcome Can Have Massive Implications
2019-06-17
[The Monitor] Attorneys representing seven migrants from Central America allege U.S. Customs and Border Protection is holding them in overcrowded facilities while denying them access to legal counsel.

The plaintiffs include Jairo Alexander Gonzalez Recinos, of El Salvador; Gerardo Henrique Herrera Rivera, of El Salvador; Kevin Eduardo Rizzo Ruano, of Guatemala; Jonathan Fernando Beltran Rizzo, of Guatemala; Enerly Melitza Ramos, of Guatemala; Karen Vanessa Borjas Zuniga, of Honduras; and Julia Elizabeth Molina Lopez, of Honduras.

The lawsuit targets several Department of Homeland Security officials and seeks the immediate release of the migrants on bond, as well as any others who are similarly situated.

"Petitioners were apprehended in mid-May at or near the U.S. Border with Mexico and subsequently detained. Once apprehended, such persons are often detained for extended periods of time ‐ on information and belief, up to six weeks ‐ in overcrowded holding cells, with inadequate food, water, and sanitation facilities, where attorneys are not allowed to visit. The conditions in these holding cells are dangerous and inhumane," the lawsuit stated.

The litigation follows a report from a DHS internal watchdog that revealed "dangerous overcrowding" at an El Paso Border Patrol processing facility ‐ a facility designed to hold 125 detainees that held approximately 900 people during a two-day span in early May.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  They should be considered foreign invaders and shot out of hand for crossing our border and their home nations properly chastised with a few arc light strikes and Mavericks through whatever their tyrants are called windows. Enough of this stupid insanity. Anyone demanding open borders should immediately be shot as a traitor.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-06-17 16:49  

#5  The article doesn't say where the suit was filed. Logically, the suit would be filed where the plaintiffs are located, the Southern District of Texas; however, logic seldom dictates suits like this. Hopefully, the case is in Texas and we will get to see what a Texas federal judge and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals do with the claims.
Posted by: BrujoTejano   2019-06-17 12:04  

#4  Yupp. The judge's been shopped. No judge should even allow for such litigation to be filed.

Another article even goes on to link the outbreak of measles in America to infection spreading from these migrants to CBP agents coming back home to infect their families.

Border Patrol agents are doing everything they can to weed out illegal aliens who are sick but they're not properly trained to evaluate for communicable diseases, a whistleblower previously told Townhall. The agents don't have medical training so they're having to guess which aliens are sick and which ones aren't. Illegal aliens who are sick slip through the cracks and are being flown and bussed to other Border Patrol stations throughout the country to be processed. It's why measles, mumps and chicken pox outbreaks are becoming more prevalent. The illegal aliens disperse throughout the United States, agents at other stations get sick, they bring it home to their families and it spreads.


So, open the borders, let the Gonzalez and Lopez and Borjas run free and the measles will go away too.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-17 08:56  

#3  Their friends, the DNC, has probably already judge-shopped and dverything.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-06-17 08:20  

#2  Would you just prefer to be shot for being a hostile force invading a sovereign nation in civilian clothes?

Posted by: DarthVader   2019-06-17 08:17  

#1  Need to bring back the old term and classification of 'outlaw'. Those who have no standing in our legal system.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-06-17 08:02  

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