'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'
- Cory Booker crossed the US border at El Paso, Texas into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
- Booker helped asylum-seekers get back to the US after they had been deported
- He was joined in Mexico by immigration rights attorneys and other advocates
- Senator caused controversy on social media after helping the asylum seekers
Democratic Presidential candidate Cory Booker has caused controversy by crossing into Mexico to escort deported asylum seekers back over the border.
The Senator, 50, visited the Mexican border city Ciudad Juarez from El Paso, Texas, to help five women who had previously been sent back to Mexico.
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)
He escorted five women in who were victims of sexual assault. The women covered their faces with paper and Booker said he wouldn't be revealing their names
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