El Paso Border Patrol Chief will be transferred to the Canadian border

Aug. 2, 2019 por Isolda Barrera

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The Border Patrol chief in El Paso, Texas, will be temporarily transferred to the city of Detroit. After receiving criticism this year about the conditions of migrants in their care. In the city of Detroit he will take care of leading the federal legal endeavor agency in Michigan and some other northern states.

On Monday, Aaron Hull, the chief in charge of the El Paso Border Patrol, will begin his job as head of the Detroit agency now as temporary, according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers.

Hull has received many criticisms for the management of facilities where detained migrants are. On the last trip made by representatives, it was announced that the state of these detention centers was deplorable and inhuman. Several lacked space and drinking water, just as several of those detained in the cells did not have the necessary medical treatment and lack of proper food. This alerted the Department of Homeland Security and issued an alert about overcrowding in the centers, calling it "critical and dangerous."

The Democratic representative of the state of Detroit, Rashida Tlaib, fears the transfer of Hull to the northern border of the country. He expresses that his concern, after seeing the state of the detention centers in El Paso and Clint, is that he bring the inhuman conditions and dehumanizing behavior to the city of Detroit after witnessing the events on the southern border.

It is not little to fear the transfer of Hull to the state of Michigan, since in part Hull is recognized for having a "law and order" attitude. Several also worry about the fact that Michigan gives them additional power that is given to federal immigration agents to search for people and vehicles.

ACLU representatives fear that Hull will use this permission to specifically target Latino minorities in the area, as they have shown concern when being arrested by Border Patrol Agents in Detroit, as well as put checkpoints at bus stations and trains , in several cases the indicated persons are citizens of the United States as well as legal residents.

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