$270G in Aqueduct Racetrack robbery

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday that migrants placed in removal proceedings receive all appropriate legal process before the federal immigration courts. The agency only deports people in accordance with federal laws as passed by Congress, said an agency spokesman.

Asylum has always been a long shot for migrants, with many claims denied. It has become even harder in the Trump administration, which has focused on making asylum difficult to obtain. .

More than 144,000 Salvadorans were deported to their home country from fiscal year 2013 to fiscal year 2019, according to ICE data.

Diaz left El Salvador in 2014 after suffering a beating that left her with a dislocated jaw; she had filed a criminal complaint against her attacker, with no result.

After a while in Mexico, Diaz returned to El Salvador, where she found work in a bar in a tough San Salvador neighborhood. But gang death threats followed her, and in 2016 she once again left the country.

This time, at a migrant shelter in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, she met Leticia, a fellow Salvadoran transgender woman.

Leticia told her story to The Associated Press.

She and Diaz lived in Mexico for a year and a half. They got asylum papers in Tapachula, but they felt harassed, so they traveled to Mexico City.

“Because we were trans, and the way we dressed, they wouldn’t give us jobs,” Leticia recalled. “We resorted to prostitution in order to survive.”

Two gun-wielding bandits grabbed more than $250,000 in an armed robbery at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens on Saturday night, police said.

Two security guards and a worker were moving about $270,000 cash from the first floor to the second floor of the South

Ozone Park track when the armed robbers, wearing surgical masks, forced them into a room about 10:58 p.m. They snatched the victims’ cell phones and the pile of cash, cops said.

The crooks fled with the bounty and have not been caught.