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On the way home to DC, we met a large group of Central Americans in the El Paso airport that had just been released. The adults wore GPS ankle bracelets and many said they'd never been on a plane before. Some had tickets in Economy Plus, the only last-minute seats available
You can imagine the confusion when they landed at O'Hare in Chicago and had to find the gates for their connecting flights to Newark, Dulles, etc. For weeks they had been following orders from coyotes, then CBP agents. Suddenly they were on their own & looked completely lost.
A father from Honduras who sat next to me said he and his 14-year-old son were on their way to Harrisonburg, VA. They had crossed into El Paso and were released and on a plane less than 48 hours later. CBP is moving people through as fast as possible; there's no room to hold them
