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Trump prevails as Mexican officials stop caravan at Texas border and ship migrants to other cities

Last week, a caravan of 1,800 Central American migrants arrived in this isolated Mexican border city, where police ushered them into a makeshift government shelter at a shuttered factory surrounded by chain link fence.

As conditions at the shelter deteriorated, riots erupted last Wednesday. Migrants broke through security barriers and struggled with guards. Some threw pipes, tables, chairs and parts of a tent at Mexican officers. Migrant advocates and reporters were barred from the facility, which was surrounded by dozens of federal police in riot gear.

On the other side of the Rio Grande, in the sleepy town of Eagle Pass, Texas, 250 troops and scores of Border Patrol agents were sent to shore up defenses as President Trump vowed to stop this latest caravan.

For the moment, Trump appears to have gotten his way.

As of Tuesday, the shelter was closing, with all but one group of migrant family members sent to other, larger border cities, where prospects of entering the United States were little better.

The last 18 migrants would be allowed to seek asylum at the border bridge to Texas, officials said. Speaking through the shelter fence Tuesday, some said they had proof, including photos, that they were fleeing persecution. It wasnt clear why they were chosen, while others were not allowed to reach the citys two border bridges across the Rio Grande. But a Honduran official said the overall group of 1,800 was simply too large for U.S. officials to process there.

There isnt space, said Jose Carlos Ponce, the Honduran consul in Saltillo who was at the shelter Tuesday.

U.S. officials have said they generally process 15 asylum seekers a day at Eagle Pass, but increased that to about 20 after the caravan arrived.

Local officials in Piedras Negras paid to bus most of the caravan travelers to larger Mexican cities, including Juarez, Hermosillo, Monterrey and Reynosa, according to a psychologist with Doctors Without Borders, which was on hand to provide healthcare. Juarez and Reynosa are on the border across from the Texas cities of El Paso and Hidalgo, respectively. Hermosillo and Monterrey are in the Mexican interior.

Theres a list of sites. They decide, said the psychologist, Yovanna Lopez, as she sat outside the shelter where she had been treating migrants for nearly a week.

It wasnt clear how many were leaving by choice.

I dont want to leave, Merlin Linares Rodriguez, 23, said late Monday.

The Salvadoran single mother was traveling with son Jose Garcia Linares, 7, to join a friend in San Francisco.

We tried to do it legally. They just tell us its not allowed, she said, and began to cry as she sat by the side of the road opposite the shelter, hoping for a ride to the river where she would try to cross illegally.

When officials started allowing migrants to leave the shelter for short periods this week, Linares said she saw some asylum seekers attempt to cross the border bridges.

They tear up your visa, she said of Mexican officials stationed at the bridges.

Leyli Rodriguez, 26, fled Nicaragua with her two cousins to join her sister in Midland, Texas, but said Mexican officials at the shelter told them U.S. holding areas for asylum seekers were full.

They said we can go to Reynosa, but we dont want to. Its dangerous. We could get kidnapped, she said. This is the safest place to be on the border.

The migrants will probably join swelling waiting lists of asylum seekers as the U.S. expands a new policy after applying for asylum. Already, other asylum seekers have been , and Trump administration officials said they planned to expand the policy to Piedras Negras.

Piedras Negras population 150,000 and its sister city, Eagle Pass population 28,000 , fit a familiar pattern on the border: The Mexican city dwarfs its U.S. counterpart. Eagle Pass is an outpost, a setting for the films No Country for Old Men and Lone Star. Below the border bridges is a golf course, where carts passed a dozen Border Patrol trucks Tuesday. Neither city has the immigrant advocacy groups found in other border communities such as Brownsville, El Paso or San Diego.

In those cities, U.S. lawyers have volunteered to accompany migrants seeking asylum at border bridges, assisting them if authorities attempt to bar them from entering. But migrants at the Piedras Negras shelter said no lawyers were allowed into the shelter to help them seek asylum.

Outside the shelter, uniformed Mexican immigration officials sat at tables with laptops issuing temporary identification cards and visas that allowed the Central Americans to travel within the country, some for just a few weeks.

If they try to cross illegally, the card is void, said Manuel Gamez Reyes, a spokesman for the city stationed at the shelter.

About 300 of the migrants were granted permission to stay and work in Mexico, he said. The rest had to relocate. He acknowledged that most of the migrants were fleeing violence in Central America. But he said cities like his cant help them.

This is not a permanent shelter, Gamez said, gesturing to a pile of scores of pallets in the parking lot outside that migrants had been given so they could sleep on the factory floor.

It would cost the city dollar 260,000 to operate the shelter for a month, including food, staff and utilities, he said. Hes been working 12 hour days.

Gamez remembered feeling relieved when the first caravan went to Tijuana in December. This group moved more rapidly, he said, with help from municipal officials in Mexicos interior.

Nobody wants them in their cities because its a lot of spending, he said. Its better for us if they leave. Were a small city. We cant afford the costs.

The buses were a Catch 22 for some of the migrants, a return to cities where they already failed to cross.

Francisco Banegas, 29, said he joined the caravan to Piedras Negras after being deported to his native Honduras during the December caravan to Tijuana. The construction worker and father of four left the shelter this week with a temporary visa hoping to find work to save the dollar 6,000 he estimates hell need to pay a smuggler to get him across the Rio Grande illegally.

What else am I supposed to do? he said.

Luci Herrera Castillo said she fled Honduras with her two children after her 14 year old daughter was raped last fall and the rapists father, a neighbor, threatened them. A single mother who worked doing washing and ironing, Herrera has another daughter she hoped to join in San Jose.

I want to present myself at the bridge, but they wont let me, she said of officials at the shelter. They say we have to go.

She planned to try her luck crossing the river illegally without a smuggler, whom she couldnt afford. On Sunday night, she said, 20 migrants disappeared from the shelter, probably bound for the river.

Were the last because we dont have money to cross the river, said Yolanda Castaneda, a Honduran traveling with her 2 year old son, Nemar, to join a friend in Kansas.

Castaneda, 26, knew the river passage was dangerous. On Thursday, Border Patrol agents found the body of a man floating near one of the border bridges. But she and Nemar would not be boarding the buses. They would try to cross the river, she said, even though her son didnt know how to swim. By Tuesday, they were gone.

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The announcement from the Harris County District Attorneys office said Officer Gerald Goines has been relieved of duty. Nicole DeBorde, Goines attorney, told CNN on Wednesday that her client, who was shot in the face and neck, is still being paid as a police officer but has not spoken with the chief.

Goines was involved in a January 28 drug raid in which two people were killed and five officers were hurt after officers went in using what is called a no knock search warrant.

Houston police Chief Art Acevedo said Wednesday the department will change its policy and now require officers wanting to conduct a raid without knocking on the suspects door or ringing the doorbell to get approval first from the chief or the chiefs designee.

Acevedo also said the FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into Goines actions.

Police have said Goines lied to obtain a search warrant for the January raid. He used an unnamed confidential informant to confirm that drugs were being sold in the home police raided, according to affidavits obtained by CNN. The affidavits, dated February 14, detail the investigation after the raid.

Following the raid, Goines named his informants to investigators, but the informants told authorities they had not worked with Goines on this particular case, according to affidavits.

Goines, whose career was decades long, according to the DAs office, was injured in the shooting.

DeBorde, Goines attorney, told CNN earlier this week that her clients jaw is wired shut and he continues to undergo medical treatment.

"Thats why youre not hearing the other side. Hes severely injured. He still cant speak clearly," DeBorde said.

DeBorde said Wednesday that she and her client welcome the review of his cases.

"Its the responsible thing," she said. "I think its sensible."

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said her duty was to see justice done.

"Although the criminal investigation of Officer Goines is ongoing, we have an immediate ethical obligation to notify defendants and their lawyers in Goines other cases to give them an opportunity to independently review any potential defenses," she said.

When narcotics officers breached the front door of the home on the evening of January 28, gunfire erupted almost immediately.

One of the suspects retreated to the back of a room and re emerged, returning fire, police said. The second was shot while trying to wrestle a shotgun away from an officer, they said. Both suspects were killed.

Four undercover narcotics officers were shot, police said. A fifth officer suffered a knee injury.

Investigators discovered no heroin in the raid despite having said they previously purchased the black tar form of the drug at the home. Officers did find marijuana, five guns and a white powder believed to be cocaine or the painkiller fentanyl, Acevedo said after the raid.

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