Video shows Texas civil rights lawyer attacked for trying to help asylum seekers
A lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project said he was injured on Thursday after security guards violently removed him from a hotel in McAllen where asylum seekers, including children, are being held without due process rights.
Footage of the incident shows three men approach attorney Andy Udelsman after he enters a floor of the Hampton hotel where the children are being held. When Udelsman asks them who they are, the men ignore him and refuse to let him pass.
Unable to move any further, Udelsman begins trying to talk to the asylum seekers being held in the individual rooms. “I’m an attorney here to help,” he shouts in Spanish. “If you need help tell me your name!”
After he begins trying to speak to the asylum seekers, one of the men pushes Udelsman down the hallway and slams him into the elevator.
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@TXCivilRights
BREAKING: Our attorney was aggressively rejected from trying to offer help to immigrant children illegally detained at a Hampton Inn in McAllen, TX. He and another of our staffer were violently shoved into the hotel elevator and were told they could not offer help. #FreeThemALL!
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