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10/13/2018  美国边境巡警（来源：英国《卫报》网站） 自8月20日以来，总共有1400多名非法移民被人口贩子抛弃在美国亚利桑那州边境偏远地区的沙漠中，其中有一组人数多达275人。 据英国《卫报》消息，“我们过去也见过大批非法移民，但从来没见过这么大规模的，”驻扎在图克斯（Tucson）的边境巡警丹尼尔⋅埃尔南德斯（Daniel Hernandez）感到震惊，“这肯定是一个严重的问题，因为他们的安全正处于危险之中。”  索诺拉沙漠(Sonoran Desert)（来源：美国侨报网） 据悉，这些人口贩子在亚利桑那州与墨西哥接壤的索诺拉沙漠（Sonoran Desert），抛弃了大批来自危地马拉和其他中美洲国家的非法移民。索诺拉沙漠中遍布仙人掌，环境十分恶劣。 得克萨斯州非法移民可以在格兰德河附近“自首”，但在亚利桑那州，帮偷渡者过境的人口贩子们通常会在鲁克维尔（Lukeville）与墨西哥边境以西、管风琴仙人掌国家纪念碑南部边界的一条偏僻土路上，抛弃这些非法移民家庭。在那里，夏季气温可以飙升到近49摄氏度。 据报道，这些非法移民有时能得到食物和水，但情况并不总是如此。他们经常需要医疗护理来治疗背部和脚踝的伤。图克斯地区边境巡逻负责人鲁道夫⋅卡里什（Rodolfo Karisch）表示，这些人口贩子“没有考虑过这些家庭的安全和福祉”。 美国国家倡导移民论坛的执行主任阿里⋅诺拉尼表示，美国政府没有足够的资源来应对移民浪潮，但“应该用有限的资源来解决危地马拉贫困和暴力的根源，以及以公平的方式处理移民案件”。 10/13/2018 By ANITA SNOW Associated Press Collectively, more than 1,400 migrants have been left by smugglers in the broiling desert — or in one case in a drenching thunderstorm — in remote areas by the border since Aug. 20. One group was as large as 275 people. “We’ve seen large groups in the past, but never on this scale,” Tucson-based Border Patrol Agent Daniel Hernandez said. “It’s definitely a serious concern because their safety is being put in jeopardy.” Hernandez said the latest case involved 61 people rescued by agents last week from rising floodwaters caused by unusually heavy rains in an isolated area and “it could have been a much, much worse situation if the rain continued.” Unlike Texas, where people turn themselves in on the banks of the Rio Grande, the smugglers in in Arizona have been dumping groups of migrant families on a remote dirt road running along the southern limit of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument west of the Lukeville border crossing with Mexico. Summer temperatures there can soar close to 120 degrees (49 Celsius). The migrants are sometimes provided with food and water, but not always, and they often require medical care for back and ankle injuries or lacerations. The traffickers have “no regard for the safety and well-being of these families,” Tucson Sector Chief Rodolfo Karisch said last week. Two larger groups of migrants from Guatemala and Honduras were also found abandoned last week near Yuma. Border Patrol officers said 108 people were found just before midnight Oct. 2 a half-mile west of the San Luis Port of Entry and five hours later, agents apprehended 56 Central Americans a mile east of the same border crossing. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona began releasing hundreds of people Sunday to await court dates, saying it didn’t have the capacity to hold an “incredibly high volume” of migrant families showing up at the border. Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona on Wednesday asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other officials to investigate ways of dealing with a wave of migrants he said was overwhelming Yuma and other parts of southern Arizona. He said at a Senate hearing that he worried about people being threatened “by an enormous number of illegal entrants ... some of whom may not be making asylum claims.” Nielsen said she didn’t know how many of the migrants in southern Arizona had made asylum claims, but would look into it. Randy Capps, research director for U.S. programs at the Migration Policy Institute think tank in Washington, said Thursday the smugglers may be bringing the Central Americans through Arizona because it’s less patrolled than Texas. He noted that migrants traveling as families are likely to be released much more quickly than lone adult travelers because of limits on holding children. “As families, they can then often wait years inside the U.S. until they hear back on their asylum claims,” he said. Under federal law and international treaties, people can obtain asylum in the U.S. if they have a well-grounded fear of persecution in their countries, but Trump administration officials charge that the system is rife with fraud and groundless claims and have called for stricter standards. About eight of every 10 asylum-seekers pass an initial screening and are then either held in an immigration detention center or released on bond into the U.S. while their cases wind through immigration courts. Many claims are ultimately denied. Hernandez said the smugglers instructed the migrants to seek asylum or some other kind of U.S. protective status, but interviews have indicated they came to the U.S. to improve their economic situation and were headed to places including Charleston, South Carolina; Oakland, California and Homestead, Florida. Ali Noorani, executive director of the Washington advocacy group National Immigration Forum, said the government doesn’t have the resources to deal with the wave of migrants and “should use some of that money to address the root causes of poverty and violence in Guatemala and process the asylum cases in a fair manner.” Central Americans typically cite violence in their homelands when applying for asylum claims. The recently apprehended migrants came from Honduras and El Salvador, which like Guatemala are home to deadly gangs like the MS-13. From Oct. 1, 2017 through Aug. 31, nearly double the number of Guatemalans and more than twice as many Salvadorans were arrested compared with the same 11-month period the year before. The most recent statistics from the Customs and Border Protection agency show that apprehensions of people traveling in families and as unaccompanied minors were also way up. Of the more than 90,000 migrants traveling in families who were apprehended during the 11-month period, close to half were from Guatemala. The rest were from Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico. |    Principal,  Tel: (301)906-6889; (240)912-6290 Licensed in MD, VA, DC, PA WeChat ID: sunnychenyuqing NMLS # 1220187 President, Principal Loan Consultant, Leader Funding, Inc.  电话: (240) 784-6645 Rockville, MD Phone: 301-366-3497 |
