Officials Think This Congresswoman Is Coaching Migrants On How To Cross The Border
Customs and Border Protection officials think that Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas has sent aides to Mexico to coach asylum-seekers on how to utilize legal loopholes that would enable them to wait out their cases in the United States.
Escobar took over from Beto O’Rourke in El Paso after the latter pursued a Senate seat back in 2018. Reports say that Escobar’s staff has been interviewing thousands of asylum-seekers who had been sent back to Mexico to wait for their asylum cases to be heard. Claims have surfaced alleging that those staff members are fraudulently tampering with the process.
Some Border Patrol officials claimed that Escobar’s aides were bringing some people back from Mexico and insisting that they couldn’t understand Spanish, even though they had spoken Spanish days or weeks before.
“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,” the union official said.
The official added: “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.”
“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,” a Border Patrol official told the Examiner.
All three border officials were concerned that the interviews could be used to infer that the Border Patrol was wrongfully turning away a large number of asylum-seekers.