Migrants who are sick, or have sick children, have had their U.S. immigration hearings postponed for months
But soon after the two entered the country, U.S. Customs and Border Protection staff noticed the girl looked ill and took her temperature and a nose swab.Then they sent the pair back to Mexico and the judge postponed their hearing to March 12 — another three months of waiting after Quesada said she“It’s an injustice,” Quesada, 36, told her daughter after they walked back.
Indeed, at the Matamoros camp where Quesada and her daughter have been living, migrants said it’s common for those who fail medical screenings to return home.U.S. border officials say the screenings are necessary to detect diseases and protect migrants and those they encounter in U.S. courts. Roughly 54,000 migrants were returned to Mexico this year under the federal Migrant Protection Protocols program better known as Remain in Mexico. They typically wait months for the first of several court dates before judges rule on their asylum claims.
Migrant advocates, however, said the screening process gives too much power to U.S. border officials and can amount to a rights violation. The federal immigration official said he couldn’t comment on specific cases, but that, “You can’t always be sure if someone says they’ve been vaccinated or had chicken pox before.”
In El Paso, according to Perez-Davis, several asylum-seeking Cuban doctors who had been returned to Mexico said they were also mistakenly diagnosed with lice and barred from attending immigration court this month.
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