Rep. Tony Gonzales was openly critical of his own party’s leadership for portraying undocumented immigrants as the enemy.
, which allowed authorities to turn away migrants at the border, including those seeking asylum — the government will instead follow Title 8, a decades-old policy that brings what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas described as “more severe” consequences for undocumented migrants. The end of Title 42 also raises concerns that a surge of immigrants will attempt to enter the United States from the global South.
Gonzales recently visited the border alongside McCarthy where he captured videos depicting the crowded and inhumane conditions in immigration facilities. “This is what I’m hearing on the ground — from mayors, from Border Patrol agents, from embedded media — everyone is saying it’s not that bad,” Gonzales said. “So on Friday I went to El Paso, I visited the central processing center. You’re seeing on these videos, this is what ‘not that bad’ looks like. In the El Paso sector there are over 6,000 people in custody. This particular facility is meant to house 1,000 people; it’s housing 3,000.
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