The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested several fathers seeking asylum in the U.S., resulting in them being separated from their families, an attorney says.
August 3, 2023, 11:55 AM
Twenty-six fathers have been separated from their families in cases that the legal aid agency is aware of, with many of them being arrested on trespassing charges, Audrey Mulholland, a TRLA attorney, told ABC News. Those arrests occurred between July 10 and 14. When asylum seekers reach the river, Texas DPS officers -- instead of immigration officers -- direct them to a certain point in it, Mulholland said. “They are the ones that [are] kind of directing them to enter up on the riverbank.”
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