Thread by @TornilloWitness

Although it made 1 DHS agent pretty angry, 3 of us were there to watch as 5 buses, likely full of deportees, got onto a @FlySwiftAir jet at Brownsville Airport, and likely were transported to somewhere in Central America.1/5

This is the promised ramp up of the PACR (Prompt Asylum Claim Review) program, designed to send asylum seekers as far away as possible without giving them time or the means to make their case.
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We are watching to see if this is the beginning of the end for MPP, or just supplementary cruelty to handle the new caravans, or poor people’s marches, as I like to think of them, coming up from the ravaged countries south of Mexico. 3/5

The DHS asked us why we were looking at “our” planes, although his sidekick corrected him quickly, revising that to government hired planes, I suppose to hide some direct connection to Homeland Security.4/5

He demanded ID, but seemed to think better of it after I asked him what the problem was.

So, 250-300 people, women, men, children. Two of us seemed to make out a little girl in a pink dress.#EndMPP #EndPACR #EndHARP #SaveAsylum #WitnessAtTheBorder 5/5