The twins have been inseparable since, clambering around the yard of the apartment complex where they’re staying and making TikTok videos with their cousins.īy last week, Nostier had grown talkative, preparing his brother to attend school next week. But this time the officer decided to release her and Anthony until their asylum case was decided. She told her story, the same one she had already been over with other immigration officials. This time, the asylum officer who interviewed Sabillon by phone was sympathetic. It appeared they would be returned to Mexico.īut their luck was about to change. Mother and son were led from court looking stunned. The judge referred her to be interviewed by an asylum officer, as she had been after her last hearing, and reset her case for Dec. The court interpreter said he couldn’t understand her. “No, I have it over there I just need to find someone to help me,” she said in Spanish between sobs as Anthony looked on. “You understand if you don’t submit an application, you can be removed to Honduras. “Do you want more time to fill out an application?” Judge Robert Hough asked through a court translator. Things looked grim for Nostier and his 39-year-old father, Carlos Leiva Membreño, when they were picked up by the Border Patrol. customs officers, Border Patrol agents and asylum officers, whose whims and judgment calls decide the fate of many migrants. Migrant advocates say the new policies give enormous power to U.S. with dramatically reducing apprehensions at the southern border. Homeland Security leaders credit the program - along with a new requirement that migrants apply for asylum first in the countries they travel through before reaching the U.S. More than 54,000 migrants have been subjected to the controversial policy known as Remain in Mexico, which took effect this year and requires most asylum seekers who are not from Mexico to wait there while the U.S. immigration system has become as the Trump administration tries to stem the flow of migrants from Central America.

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