Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trump administration, from Oregon Sen. According to a letter sent by Ron Wyden, the United States plans to remove approximately 700 goitemala children without their parents, and the Central American country said it was ready to take them.
The subtraction will violate the “child welfare interpretation of the Re -Settlement Office of the Re -Settlement Office and the fundamental obligation of this country against these children .. Responsible for immigrant children just coming to the USA.
“This movement threatens to separate children from their families, lawyers and support systems, push them back to the conditions they take refuge, and eliminate vulnerable children beyond American law and supervision,” he wrote.
Another step in the sweeping of the Trump administration Migration Application EffortsWhich Plans to increase civil servants to Chicago To be deported for immigration pressure and Latest protections For people who have permission to live and work in the United States.
Guatemala says he’s ready to take children
Guatemala Foreign Minister Carlos Martínez said on Friday that the government is willing to take hundreds of goitemala small to the US facilities and held in US facilities.
Guatemala is worried about minors that can be released from facilities especially for children and sent to adult detention centers. The number of children to be reversed remains in the flow, but they are currently discussing a little more than 600. He said there was no date for their return yet.
What Guatemala had accepted before would be almost twice as much. The head of the country’s immigration service last month 341 I want to send back those who are not uncompromising He was held in US facilities.
“The idea is to bring them back before they reach an age of 18 to not be taken to an adult detention center, Dan He said that Guatemala would be done at the expense and there would be a voluntary way of return.
The plan was later announced by President Bernardo Arévalo, who said that the government had a moral and legal obligation to defend children. His comments came from us days later Internal Security Secretary Visited Kristi Noem Guatemala.
Wyden’s letter says that children will ‘forcibly remove’
The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to the requests for comments about the latest movement reported by CNN.
Wyden’s letter, which quotes unidentified information, said that as a sponsor, children who do not have a parent or no legal guardian or who do not have a refuge lawsuit will be oluştur forcibly lifted from the country ”.
“Children without accomplishment are some of the most vulnerable children entrusted to the care of the government,” Wyden wrote. “In most cases, these children and their families had to make an unintentional choice to confront the danger and separation in the search for security.”
The idea of sending back many children back to their own countries expressed their concerns with activists working with children who wandered during the immigration process.
Uz We are angry because of the renewed attack of immigrant children’s rights, L Lindsay Toczieski, President and CEO of Immigrant Defenders Law Center, said. “We are not deceived by attempts to mask these efforts as ‘return’. This is another attempt to break with which few processes remained in the immigration system.”
Their treatment is one of the most sensitive problems of migration, as they often experience reaching the United States. Defending groups have already sued the courts to ask the court to stop the new Trump administration Veterinary procedures for unaccompanied childrenTo say that the changes are for longer and inhuman.
The refugee is delivered to the refugee re-settlement when the immigrant children traveling without their parents or their parents meet by the authorities during the US-Mexican border. After entering the United States, a sponsora of a living in the country-usually a family member-until the government is released in controlled shelters or with protective care families.
They can demand asylumChild migration status or visa for victims of sexual exploitation.
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Gonzalez, McALLEN, Texas reported. AP writers Sonia Pérez D. Tim Sullivan in Guatemala and Minneapolis contributed to this report.
