New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal | New Zealand
According to his friend and his advocate, the New Zealand woman, who was held in the US immigration center with her six-year-old son after crossing the Canadian-US border, is wrongly treated as a criminal ”.
33 -year -old Sarah Shaw, a New Zealanda in Washington for more than three years, left his largest two children to the Vancouver Airport on July 24, so they can fly directly to New Zealand with their grandfather.
Im When Shaw tried to enter the United States again, Migration and Customs Execution (ICE) detained him and his youngest son with a “terrifying şişi ordeal.
“Sarah thought he was kidnapped,” he said. “At first they did not explain anything to him, they just took him and his son quietly and immediately put it like a white minibus.”
The ice confiscated Shaw’s phone and said that he had moved his mother and son to Dilley Migration Processing Center in Southern Texas. Foreign nationals caught in immigration pressures of the Trump administration, similarly, moved to centers away from their homes, support networks and legal representations.
“It was absolutely terrible, Bes Besancon said, except for the staff, Shaw and his son were the only English speakers, the common bedrooms were locked from 8 o’clock to 8 am and they were not allowed to wear their own clothes.
“It’s really like being in prison … It was absolutely destructive and a little barbarian.”
Shaw is known as a “Komo Card” visa-an employment visa obtained through employment in the Children’s facility and an I-360 visa that can give the status of migration to victims of domestic violence.
Shaw had recently received a letter confirming his visa renewal, and he did not realize that his visa was still waiting for the I-360 element.
“It wasn’t until he tried to return from the border where he noticed only half of the combination card – because only a physical card – was completely approved,” Besancon said.
Besancon said border officials do not have to detain Shaw and apply for human conditional evacuation. Meanwhile, the I-360 visa of Shaw’s three children was approved, and Besancon claimed that his youngest son was detained in illegal illegal ”.
Besancon, a retired US navy officer, said his country’s treatment for Shaw and other immigrants was terrible.
“It is very heartbreaking to see people like Sarah not only legal, but also people who contribute to American society, and added that the situation received a great financial and emotional wages to Shaw and his son.
“It gives the therapy and consultancy to some of our most risk -risk youth… and it was definitely destructive to treat as a criminal.”
Shaw’s case is a British tourist, three German Lucas Sielaff, Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche and a Canadian and Australian, including questioning, arrest and deportation on the US border.
Union representing Shaw Washington State Employees Federation (WFSE)called for release.
“This may never heal the trauma that he has already caused for himself and his son, Mike, the president of the Union and a psychiatric social worker at Western State Hospital.
Yestramski, the union “strongly opposes ice practices” and wider migration policies that provide them as they contradict American values and human rights.
The New Zealand Foreign Ministry said that this was in contact with Shaw, but he could not comment more about the case due to privacy problems.
Guardian contacted ICE and the US Embassy in New Zealand to comment.
