Some Customs Officers Are Telling Asylum Seekers at Border: You're Not Welcome, Go Away

Another report shows the impact that President Trump's closed-borders policy is having on immigration, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

A study done by a group called 'Human Rights First' shows that Customs and Border Protection on the Texas-Mexico border are simply telling asylum seekers that they are not welcome.

"Since November of 2016, some CBP officials have invoked the change in the administration when refusing to process asylum seekers," the group's Shaw Drake reports.

He says the agents are simply telling officers that thanks to President Trump, they no longer have to let them into the country.

"They are showing an exacerbation in the level of hostility and skepticism toward asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry following the election," he said.

Officials of the group say they don't know how many people with legitimate claims to asylum have been turned away from the U.S. due to border officials simply telling them they are not welcome, but the Department of Homeland Security reports a dramatic drop in the number of asylum seekers entering the U.S. through the southern border in the last few months, and there are indications this may be to blame.

Drake wants DHS and Congress to instruct border officials to 'follow international treaties and U.S. law,' and allow asylum seekers to enter the U.S. pending a decision from an immigration court on their status.

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