Two advocacy groups are continuing the Trump administration to stop the use of new rules which, according to them, have kept the children migrants in police custody and separated from their family for months, because the mental health of children is deteriorating.
The National Center for Youth Law and Democracy Forward brought legal action with the American district court of the Columbia district on behalf of a group for the defense of immigrants based in Los Angeles as well as two brothers and sisters in California as a foster family, a teenager who gave birth while being detained and in other children who crossed the southern border without federal programs for prolonged periods.
The prosecution appoints the Ministry of Health and Social Services and its Resettlement Office of Refugees, which administers programs to take care of children until they are released to sponsors, often with the family, in the United States. HHS did not respond to the request for Times comments.
The Trump administration has implemented a series of new security regulations since January who demand that families wishing to meet with children provide proof of income and American identification and, in many cases, to pass a DNA test.
Politicians can be intimidating for undocumented family members, some of which have no way of obtaining an American identity document or do not have a regular pay check.
“The policy changes that our customers are difficult do not increase the safety of children, but rather have insurmountable obstacles to families who want nothing more than being together,” said Mishan Wroe, lawyer for the National Center for Youth Law.
“When a child is rejected by a parent only because their only form of photo identification is a foreign passport, it is difficult to see this as something other than making life as difficult as possible for immigrant families who are looking for security in our country.”
According to orr data, the duration of children who remain in detention tripled – from 37 days in January to 112 days in March.
Lawyers argue that the changes, which have been deployed over several months, have turned upside down families who had been rushed with their children.
Among the people appointed in the trial, a 17 -year -old girl, identified as Angelica S., she crossed the border in November, and her sister began the sponsorship process, providing a passport and fingerprints. But because Angelica was pregnant and scheduled in February, Orr would not free it as long as her child was vaccinated in April. At that time, new regulations had been implemented and his sister, Deisy, could not obtain the required documentation.
In March, among the changes, the administration deleted the rules which prohibited the collection and sharing of immigration status with the police. He also canceled a regulation which prevents or having denying the release of a child in office only of the legal status of a sponsor.
Angelica’s case director, according to the trial, asked him to find a new sponsor that had documents. But all those she exploited were too afraid that they were reported to immigration.
“Being separated from my family during this period, with a new baby, was really difficult for me,” said Angelica S., according to the comments provided by lawyers. “My sister did everything that my case manager asked him to do. I don’t understand why I can’t live with her. “
Angelica is now looking to raise her daughter in detention until she was 18 years old, when she will be released. At that time, her daughter will be 10 months old.
In the past, immigration and customs agents have picked up minors for their 18th birthday.
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