'Seeking asylum is a legal right': Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker causes controversy by helping immigrants in Mexico return to the US after they were deported as he is slammed for 'breaking the law'
Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker has caused controversy by crossing into Mexico to escort deported asylum seekers back over the border.
He was joined by immigration rights attorneys and advocates to get the women, who are fleeing domestic violence, admitted back into the US.
However, he has been accused of breaking the law by critics who claimed he violated legislation which prohibits 'bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens into the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry'.
His trip across the border comes after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited a detention center this week and said that illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers were 'drinking out of toilets' – a claim an agency official quickly denied.
Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker escorts migrants seeking asylum towards El Paso, Texas, U.S. He helped five victims of sexual assault get over the border (pictured with faces covered)
Booker and his aides escort the five women towards El Paso, Texas, U.S., as seen at Paso del Norte border crossing bridge
The sexual assault victims, with their faces covered, had previously been sent back to Mexico from the US
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Democratic candidate Cory Booker causes controversy by helping immigrants return to the US | Daily Mail Online
