As Government Pulls Back, Charities Step In to Help Released Migrants [nytimes.com]

Alicia Doktor 1/16/194:00 AM

SAN DIEGO — Migrants who are allowed to remain in the United States to pursue asylum are usually given a choice when they are released from detention in San Diego: Go to the Greyhound bus station and fend for themselves, or try to find a cot and a shower at a local shelter.

One way or another, once the migrants have been dropped off by discreet white Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans in border towns across the Southwest, they are no longer the federal government’s problem.

President Trump has tried and failed to end a practice he derisively calls “catch and release,” and thousands of undocumented migrants apprehended at the border every month are still being granted routine entry to the United States while their cases are processed by immigration courts.

[For more on this story by Jose A. Del Real and Manny Fernandez, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...lters-charities.html]

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