The human rights group Amnesty International is calling on Congress to freeze funding of the U.S. Border Patrol until the Trump administration ends its illegal treatment of refugees attempting to apply for asylum status at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The demand comes as U.S. President Donald Trump denied that his Border Patrol used tear gas against asylum-seeking children in Mexico despite an abundance of photo and video evidence showing they did precisely that. Late Monday, Mexico’s foreign ministry formally called on the U.S. conduct an “exhaustive investigation” into the federal agents’ behavior as they enforced the White House’s anti-immigrant border policy.
“Instead of militarizing the border and peddling fear and discrimination, President Trump’s administration should show compassion for those forced to flee their homes and must receive their requests for asylum without delay.”
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Echoing the Mexican government’s call for an investigation into the Border Patrol’s actions, Amnesty on Monday issued 26 recommendations (pdf) to the Mexican and U.S. governments on how to humanely resolve the Central American refugee crisis, which has been fueled in large part by interventionist American foreign policy in the region.
“Instead of militarizing the border and peddling fear and discrimination, President Trump’s administration should show compassion for those forced to flee their homes and must receive their requests for asylum without delay, as required by U.S. and international law,” Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said in a statement. “For their part, the governments of Mexico and Central America must take urgent action to guarantee the safety and well-being of all these people on the move and ensure they do not suffer further human rights violations.”
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