ASYLUM-SEEKERS EXPELLED BY BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SAY THEY FEEL DECEIVED – By Debbie Nathan (The Intercept) / Mar 24 2021
Central American families arrived in Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez disoriented and disconsolate; many didn’t realize they were being expelled from the U.S.
“BIENVENIDOS A MIAMI,” the woman in the black jacket mouthed bitterly. Welcome to Miami. An official said this mockingly to her and her fellow passengers, she recalled — all Central American parents with young children — as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plane descended. They had departed from Brownsville, Texas, but they knew they weren’t in Miami, she said. Instead of a coastal city, they saw mountainous terrain.
Three hours later, huddled on a dirty, noisy street by a bridge, most still seemed disoriented. Some thought they were in the United States.
“What’s it called here?” a skinny man with a 4-year-old asked me.
“Ciudad Juárez,” I said. “The state of Chihuahua.” Mexico.
Around us, toddlers wailed, older children stared, and mothers quietly wept. The skinny man summed things up: They’d each been “engañado” by the U.S. government. “Deceived,” he said. His verb choice might have seemed strong, but it wasn’t just migrants who were misled. So were Americans just north of the border.
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