Booker's press secretary Sabrina Singh said on Twitter that Booker crossed the U.S. border from Juarez to El Paso with an organization called Families Belong Together to escort 5 "asylum-seekers" and try to prevent them from being sent back to Mexico.<ref>https://lauraloomer.us/2019/07/04/video-cory-booker-escorts-migrants-from-juarez-into-the-united-states/#.XR9aHpNKjUI</ref> The women were allegedly domestic abuse victims, not political asylum seekers, and were returned to Mexico under the new program President Trump negotiated with the Mexican government.<ref>https://nalert.blogspot.com/2019/07/happening-now-sen-booker-escorts.html</ref> | Booker's press secretary Sabrina Singh said on Twitter that Booker crossed the U.S. border from Juarez to El Paso with an organization called Families Belong Together to escort 5 "asylum-seekers" and try to prevent them from being sent back to Mexico.<ref>https://lauraloomer.us/2019/07/04/video-cory-booker-escorts-migrants-from-juarez-into-the-united-states/#.XR9aHpNKjUI</ref> The women were allegedly domestic abuse victims, not political asylum seekers, and were returned to Mexico under the new program President Trump negotiated with the Mexican government.<ref>https://nalert.blogspot.com/2019/07/happening-now-sen-booker-escorts.html</ref> |