'I always felt like, no matter how bad it got, there was a safety valve for the most extreme cases. They shut that valve. They cut it off. This is worse than anything I experienced under the Trump Administration,' said Project Corazon's Priscilla Orta
n late May, a migrant woman from Honduras crossed into Dallas, fleeing violent threats from gang members back home and seeking asylum in the U.S. While she waited in Mexico, men from a cartel would rape her every couple of days as part of a “rent payment,” according to her attorney.
If she had approached the border just a week earlier, the harrowing details of her case would have likely led to U.S. officials granting her an asylum appointment and emergency parole, according to Orta. That’s been standard U.S. policy applied at most ports, even during the pandemic.
Every port may work differently. When policy is built on a case-by-case basis, there’s going to be more variability in the response—even for those facing similar circumstances, says Julia Gelatt, senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, an immigration policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. A personmay not receive the same treatment as another crossing in Tijuana—even if they are dealing with a similar threat.
“The app is a lottery system. It’s not prioritizing based on vulnerability or need for protection. It’s prioritizing based on who has the luck of the draw and…who has been waiting the longest to get a CBP One appointment,” says Gelatt. “There’s no intention even of targeting it for people who have humanitarian protection needs.”
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