{"id":2136476,"date":"2023-12-29T20:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T01:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asylum-seeking-families-at-u-s-border-say-that-going-back-is-not-an-option\/"},"modified":"2023-12-29T20:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T01:58:28","slug":"asylum-seeking-families-at-u-s-border-say-that-going-back-is-not-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/asylum-seeking-families-at-u-s-border-say-that-going-back-is-not-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum-seeking families at US border refuse to consider &#8216;going back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fasylum-seeking-families-at-u-s-border-say-that-going-back-is-not-an-option%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2136476&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Migrants take part \u2064in a caravan towards the border with the United States in Tapachula, Chiapas \u2063State, Mexico, on December 24, \u20632023.  (Photo by \u200cSTR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>5:44 PM \u2013 \u2062Friday, December 29, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>One woman\u2062 who spoke to <em>CNN <\/em>reporters claimed that she was attacked by criminals seeking money in her home country and that she has no desire to ever go back. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who left her native country of Honduras with\u200d her two children, says that she is\u2064 an activist\u2062 who has been forced into unemployment for criticizing her own nation\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of asylum-seekers arrived at a Texas shelter\u200d on\u2062 Christmas Eve, having been\u200d released on parole by immigration officials. Since there were not enough\u2062 resources at a handful of shelters for newcomers, many \u200dof them were still seen waiting \u2063outside, hoping for \u200cany \u200dpossible openings.<\/p>\n<p>The asylum-seeker, Silvia del Carmen Flores, 38, was\u2064 seen\u2063 sitting on the pavement with her \u206416-year-old daughter Yolani close by \u2063and her \u20633-year-old son Nikson on her \u200blap. Flores told reporters that they had\u200d recently been\u2063 granted\u2063 parole following their asylum request,\u200c and that they were looking for a trip to San Antonio, Texas, where they might be allowed to stay \u200bat a larger facility.<\/p>\n<p>According to Flores, they left Honduras on December 12<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The three arrived in the Mexican city of \u200bMonterrey after passing through Guatemala and Mexico on buses and taxis. \u2062Flores\u2064 also added that they took a flight to Piedras Negras, which is located over the border from Eagle Pass, with \u2064the \u2063remaining money that they \u200chad. At the Rio Grande,\u200b the family crossed the border alongside thousands of other asylum-seekers looking to make their way into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Flores explained that, due to her family\u2019s unfortunate \u200cfinancial circumstances, she had been considering leaving Honduras\u2064 for a while now. Previously, her daughter Yolani had been abducted two months prior, and \u200dFlores\u2064 was forced to pay \u2062the kidnappers a large sum in order to get her \u2063back. Flores also claimed that after that, \u200bshe felt forced to leave and had heard\u2062 from locals\u200b in her area that the U.S. border \u2063was no longer \u2064as strict as it once was regarding immigration.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to go back to Honduras. There\u2019s too much corruption, crime, \u200band things \u2062like that,\u201d Yolani said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tens of thousands of asylum-seekers arrived at \u200bEagle Pass \u2062in the last two weeks, including the Flores family. \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>However, overburdened U.S. institutions\u200b and agencies are being strained like \u200dnever before \u2064by the spike in border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>A Homeland Security official explained earlier this month that federal officials recorded\u2064 an average of, at\u200b the very least, \u201cover 9,600 interactions with migrants over a seven-day \u2062period\u201d along the southern border of the United States in December. That figure is one of the greatest numbers ever documented \u200cin history.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, U.S. Customs \u200dand Border \u200cProtection is still \u201cin the thick of things.\u201d An official who spoke to the press said that\u2062 illegal crossings continue to persist and are encouraged by unscrupulous individuals who help migrants\u200b pass \u2063between ports of entry into the\u2063 United States.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelly Giraldo, a 33-year-old domestic worker from Medell\u00edn, Colombia, told <em>CNN <\/em>that\u2064 her\u200d desire for a better life in the U.S. stemmed from a \u2063lack of opportunities in her own country. She stated \u200dthat her primary\u200b driving force is her daughter, whom she says\u2062 she had to leave behind along with her\u200d sister. Giraldo also mentioned that she intends to bring her children to the U.S. \u200cif her asylum request is granted.<\/p>\n<p>Other asylum-seekers who spoke with reporters also mentioned that\u2063 they had heard of a new provision in \u2064U.S. immigration law that made obtaining legal status much simpler than in the past.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard they were giving [undocumented immigrants] \u2064the benefit of being allowed into the country, I decided to make \u200dthe \u2063trip. Otherwise, I would have never \u2064done it. I would have never taken the risk,\u201d Giraldo said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Troy\u200b Miller, a senior official \u200cof U.S. Customs and Border Protection carrying out\u2062 the commissioner\u2019s duties, said in \u2064a statement released last week that many \u200cmigrants \u201care often misled and\u2063 victimized by the transnational criminal organizations. These smugglers are recklessly putting \u200cmigrants into harm\u2019s way: in remote locations across the border, onto the tops of trains, or into the water of\u200d the\u2063 Rio Grande.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuban nurse Milaidis \u200bDuarte Felipe, 30, said that she left her home country on October 27<sup>th<\/sup> with her sister\u200b and niece. According to Duarte Felipe, who previously\u2062 spoke \u200bout against her country\u2019s government and later \u2063faced political persecution as well as job loss, maintained that she was \u201cforced to leave behind her 7-year-old son.\u201d Duarte\u200d Felipe explained that they flew from Cuba to \u2062the\u200d Dominican Republic and finally to Managua, Nicaragua. <\/p>\n<p>Then, the \u200bthree women took a cab\u2062 from the capital of Nicaragua to the border of Honduras, and from there they took a bus through Guatemala to the Suchiate River,\u200b which\u200b forms the border between Guatemala and Mexico, where they crossed \u2062on a raft.<\/p>\n<p>She noted \u2064that her allotted\u2064 entry into the U.S.\u200b has been \u201ca great Christmas present,\u201d particularly because\u2064 she came on\u200b Christmas Eve and was picked up in Eagle Pass by her Houston-based family members who had already entered the\u2062 U.S. previously.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to spend [Christmas] with my\u2062 family.\u00a0I\u2019m going to live in a free country.\u00a0Where at least\u2026 \u200cI don\u2019t know.\u00a0I will live in a\u2062 free country where citizens\u2019 rights are \u2062respected, unlike \u2063where I used to live,\u201d Duarte Felipe said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As soon as Duarte Felipe is granted refuge, she asserted that she intends to bring her child to the United States as well.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive\u200b breaking news blasts directly to your \u2064inbox for free. Subscribe\u200d here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this \u200bpost!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>San\u2063 Antonio police are hoping new evidence will lead to answers over the killing \u200bof a pregnant teen and her boyfriend. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Recent reports reveal the \u2018National Instant Criminal Background Check System\u2019 of the FBI holds records of nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-gun-background-check-database-has-nearly-14m-entries-of-illegal-aliens\/\" title=\"FBI's Gun Background Check Database: 14M Entries for Illegal Aliens\">14 million illegal immigrants<\/a> in the \u200csystem. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Hamas\u2019 weaponization of sexual violence against Israeli women since October 7th is only a glimpse into how its sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, has abused woman for decades. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As we quickly approach 2024, the U.S. is gearing \u200cup for what \u2064many are calling an election year like no other.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>December 22, 2023 \u2013 6:05 AM PST HONG KONG (Reuters) \u2013 Chinese regulators announced on Friday a wide range \u2062of rules \u200caimed\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>One of the main bottlenecks for Tesla \u200bis the speed it can make the 4680 batteries used in the Cybertruck with its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-vet-defends-beheading-satanic-statue\/\" title=\"Navy vet supports beheading Satanic statue\">dry-coating technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A group \u2063of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing \u200cbooks the \u200cauthors have written to train their models.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>San Francisco police Sergeant David Radford contacted Tesla about data \u2063on an alleged stalker\u2019s remote access to a vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> What are some of \u2062the\u200d challenges faced by asylum-seekers at the United States-Mexico border?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Rm score=&#8221;16&#8243;rndash; sign up for \u200dour newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.example.com\/newsletter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The influx of asylum-seekers at the United \u200bStates-Mexico border has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-house-education-committee-holds-hearing-on-campus-antisemitism\/\" title=\"WATCH LIVE: House Education Committee holds hearing on campus antisemitism\">reached \u200dunprecedented levels<\/a>,\u200c with thousands \u200bof individuals arriving in search of a\u2064 better life. Many \u200cof these individuals have faced\u200c dire circumstances in their home countries, such as violence, \u200bcorruption, and \u2064lack of opportunities. The stories of these asylum-seekers shed light on \u2062the challenges \u200dthey\u2064 have faced and their hopes for a brighter \u200bfuture.<\/p>\n<p>One asylum-seeker, Silvia del Carmen Flores\u200b from Honduras, shared her harrowing journey with CNN reporters. She explained that she and\u2062 her two\u200c children had been forced to leave their home country due to ongoing violence and corruption.\u200d Flores had been an activist who was \u2064critical of her own government, which led to her unemployment and further endangerment. In December, after being\u200d granted parole, Flores and her children arrived at a Texas shelter, hoping for a chance to stay in \u2064the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Flores&#8217;\u2063 story\u2062 is not unique. Many asylum-seekers at the border \u200bhave similar tales of hardship and desperation. Marcelly Giraldo, a domestic worker from Colombia, explained that she left her country\u2062 due to a lack \u200cof \u200copportunities and hopes\u2064 for\u200c a better life for her daughter. Giraldo, like many others, \u2064heard about a\u200d new provision in US immigration \u2063law \u200dthat made obtaining legal \u2063status easier, which motivated her decision to \u2062make the journey.<\/p>\n<p>The increasing number of\u200c asylum-seekers has put a strain on US institutions and agencies responsible \u200bfor processing and accommodating them. \u2064U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported \u2064a\u2064 significant rise in interactions with migrants at the southern border, surpassing previous records.\u200d This surge has overwhelmed the \u200bsystem,\u2062 making it difficult to provide adequate care and\u2062 support \u2063for\u200b individuals seeking refuge.<\/p>\n<p>The situation\u200c is further complicated by the\u2063 involvement of criminal organizations who exploit vulnerable migrants. Troy Miller, a senior\u2063 official of U.S. Customs\u2064 and Border Protection, acknowledged the risks faced by migrants as\u200c they navigate their way to the border. He emphasized the importance of \u2062addressing these criminal networks and ensuring the safety of those seeking\u200b asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the \u2062challenges, many asylum-seekers \u2063remain hopeful for \u2063a \u2063new beginning in the United States. Cuban nurse \u2063Milaidis Duarte Felipe, who left her country\u2063 due\u200c to political persecution and job loss, expressed \u2062her gratitude\u200d for the opportunity to \u2062live in a\u2062 free country where citizens&#8217; rights are respected. Duarte Felipe\u200b plans to bring her child to the United \u2063States once she\u2062 is granted refuge.<\/p>\n<p>As the influx of asylum-seekers continues, it is crucial for the United States to \u200daddress the underlying issues that drive individuals to leave\u200c their home countries. A comprehensive approach that combines humanitarian aid,\u200c diplomacy, and immigration reforms is necessary \u2064to address the root causes and ensure a\u200b more efficient and compassionate response to those seeking refuge.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it is essential for U.S. \u2062institutions and \u2062agencies to receive the support\u2062 they need\u2064 to handle the \u2062increasing \u2064number of \u2064asylum-seekers. Adequate resources, personnel, and infrastructure should be provided to ensure timely \u2063processing and appropriate \u2063care for those in need.<\/p>\n<p>The stories of asylum-seekers at the United\u2063 States-Mexico border serve as a reminder of \u200cthe urgent need \u2062for global collaboration and empathy. It is our collective responsibility to create a world\u2062 where all\u2062 individuals can live free from violence, corruption, and oppression. by Brooke Mallory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrants join a caravan heading to the US border in Tapachula, Mexico. A woman, interviewed by CNN, recounts being assaulted by money-seeking criminals. 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