Mcallen, Texas – President Donald Trump’s administration has started asking parents who are looking to reunite with their children who expressed to the United States alone to appear in the interviews in which immigration employees might wonder about, according to the policy memorandum obtained by the Associated Press.
Legal calling groups say that the transformation led to the arrest of some parents, while their children remain in American reservation. The US Department of Internal Security did not confirm this or answer questions about the directive of July 9, and instead in a statement to the Biden administration conflicts to check and monitor homes properly where the children were placed.
The Refugee Resettlement Office, which is part of the US Health and Humanitarian Services Department and which takes the custody of children who cross the border without a parent or legal guardian, has issued guidance. The agency said that the goal is to ensure the examination of the shepherds – usually the parent or guardian – properly.
The memo said that the sponsors should now show personally to verify the identity. Previously, sponsors can submit online identity documents. “Federal law enforcement agencies may be present to achieve their task goals, which may include sponsors’ interview,” the guidance also says.
Naha Desai, Managing Director of Human Rights at the National Youth Center, said that the change provides us with immigration and customs a “integrated opportunity” to arrest parents-something she said had already happened.
Marie Miller Flapers, Director of Politics and Legislative Affairs of the Young Center for Rights of Migrant Children, said she was aware of a case in which immigration officers were arrested by a father of a child under the age of 12 and who appeared to examine identity. “As a result, my mom feels terrifying from moving forward. Thus, this child is stuck,” said Miller Flars.
Desai also said that the interviews are unlikely to produce information authorities that you do not already have. The examination has already included home studies and verification of the background conducted by the Refugee Resettlement Office, not the enforcement of immigration.
The Refugee Resettlement Office said it was transferred “clearly and bitten” with parents, and tells them that they may meet them ICE or other law enforcement officials. She said that parents can reject an interview by ICE and that rejection will not affect the decisions about whether their children will be released.
“The aim of this is to ensure that every child is fully released to a stable and safe environment and the shepherds by ensuring a potential sponsor is the same individual who provides supportive documents, including the good identity,” he said in a statement.
However, Desai is aware of the position in which the shepherd was not notified and was only able to decline after payment.
She said: “We know the shepherds who are deeply and deeply afraid because of this interview, but some are still ready to move forward due to their determination to get their children out of reservation.”
The Trump administration refers to Biden
Tricia McLakelin, a spokeswoman for the Internal Security, issued a statement that has not dealt with any arrests or mentioned the specific changes. Instead, she said that the administration is looking to protect children who were released under President Joe Biden.
A federal dance report issued last year threw Biden administration conflicts while increasing migrant children reaching the borders of the United States of Mexican in 2021. The Trump administration sent internal security and FBI agents to visit children.
Another talk of ICE allows to meet children while they are in the government -run shelters. This entered on July 2, according to separate directives that the Refugee Resettlement Office was sent to the shelters, which AP also obtained.
The agency said that it provides a legal advisor for children and that its employees are not involved in interviews with law enforcement. Legal defenders for children say they get less than one hour of interviews, and that children often do not understand the purpose of the interview or the officers are lost.
“If we do not understand what the interview is or where the information is going, do we really agree with this process?” Miller Zohour said with the young position.
Jennifer Bodkol, head of global policy in children in need of defense, said some officers lack language skills, trauma enlightened interview techniques, and knowledge of the reunification process.
She said, “It seems only designed to throw the network more broadly on the enforcement of immigration against adults,” she said.
A series of political changes to add obstacles to the reunification process
The changes in July are among a series of steps taken by the Trump administration to intensify parents who seek to reunite children.
The administration asked the fingerprints of the shepherds and any adult who live at home where children are released. This has also required identification or income identification that only those who can obtain legal in the United States, as well as enter DNA and home visits by immigration officers.
Children spend more time in the government -run shelters under an increase. The average accommodation period for those who were issued 171 days in July was a decrease from the peak of 217 days in April, but above 37 days in January, when Trump took office.
About 2000 unaccompanied children were in government seizure in July.
Come on Cina Akher, Executive Director of the Acacia Center for Justice that analyzes children’s nursery data, is the longest incubation times to policy changes.
“The agency’s mission has been mixed and involved.” “ORR’s mission seems to be somewhat risk in that it is doing more now on the enforcement side, and they are not an entity to enforce immigration.”
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