The ramping up of tent courts in Texas was marked by confusion and disorganization as only about half the migrants scheduled to appear showed up. A majority of those who did lacked legal representation.
SAN ANTONIO — The ramping up of tent courts in Texas on Monday was marked by confusion and disorganization as only about half the migrants scheduled to appear showed up and a majority of migrants not having legal representation.
"I think it's surreal to approach this facility and understand it to be a court of law," she said."It doesn't feel like a court, it does act like a court, it doesn’t look like a court.""It's hard to advocate for them when we don't know the system we're trying to navigate on their behalf," she said."I think it's difficult to describe this process as legitimate when you have people living in fear on the southern border in Mexico.
Gonzalez asked if anyone had a question. One man raised his hand and he began to detail his intense fear of having to reside in Mexico while he waited. The judge said she would talk to him after. Suddenly about eight more hands shot up with similar concerns. Rochelle Garza, with the American Civil Liberties Union, said she was shut out of the tent courts in Brownsville, Texas.
The Department of Homeland Security erected tent courts last week in two Texas border towns, Brownsville and Laredo, as part of the Department of Homeland Security's expansion of the remain in Mexico program. Officials say they want 200 migrants to appear each day in the tents in Laredo, according to The Associated Press.
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