"By the time they arrived in El Paso, the asylum process had changed: Denis and his children were briefly detained, given a court date in December, and then sent back to Mexico to wait, under a U.S. policy called the Migrant Protection Protocols (M.P.P.)."
"On August 3rd, cartel members arrived at a shelter in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, demanding that the pastor in charge, Aarón Méndez, hand over a group of Cubans to be ransomed; when Méndez refused, he was abducted, and he hasn’t been seen since."
"According to an analysis by @humanrights1st, there have already been three hundred and forty-three reported cases involving the rape, kidnapping, and violent assault of asylum seekers in the M.P.P. program"
Read the report here: humanrightsfirst.org/resource/order…
Read the report here: humanrightsfirst.org/resource/order…
@humanrights1st Trigger warning on this one. MPP is forcing people into these situations. The cruelty is devastating. We need to put an end to this policy as soon as possible. 
@humanrights1st When families were being separated under the zero tolerance policy last summer it was all over our TV screens.
Today more cruelty is happening as a result of another cruel policy a few miles away and none of this will be on @CNN or @MSNBC.
Today more cruelty is happening as a result of another cruel policy a few miles away and none of this will be on @CNN or @MSNBC.
