Since this week, migrant women who cross the border without visas or appointments to submit their asylum applications are now arrested and prosecuted in Texas. For two years, only migrant men were arrested by Texas security forces who had orders to hand over women and children to federal border guards.
With our correspondent in Texas, Thomas Harms
Arresting only migrant men and not women was discrimination. The Texas authorities have therefore just opened a detention center for migrant women not far from the border with Reynosa in Mexico. It must be said that in recent months, in several trials, complaints have been dismissed because of this discrimination and male asylum seekers have been released.
In the United States, crossing the border illegally is a federal offense, so Texas found a way to stop migrants by prosecuting them for minor crimes of trespassing or trespassing on private property. Most of the border land is in fact privately owned.
For the lawyer for asylum seekers, Charlene D’Cruz, the authorities are cynical. “ We are not talking about discrimination before the law when we deny migrants and refugees the right to education or health care! But now we care because too few women get caught »
2023-07-29 09:52:52
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