The Trump Administration Studied Plans To Deter Immigrants At The Southern Border, Document Shows
Migrants are escorted by a US Border Patrol agent as they are detained in San Ysidro, California.
In a memo dated July 4, 2017, Jonathan White, the former deputy director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees unaccompanied minors, laid out how Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts to track down certain sponsors — those who pick up unaccompanied children in government facilities — will likely lead to “significant increases in length of stay and decline in discharge rate.”
Scott Shuchart, a former senior Department of Homeland Security adviser who reviewed the document, said that it appeared the memo was a model for policies that the agency and White House wanted.Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst at the American Immigration Council, said the memo confirms government officials tasked with planning for family separation knew it was about deterrence.
The"zero tolerance" policy led to family separations after parents were transferred into criminal custody, where children could not be placed. In a December 2017 memo laying out immigration policies and, an option to outright separate families at the border was listed after the later enacted option to introduce zero tolerance and aim to prosecute every person who crossed the border without authorization, including families.
Sarah Pierce, an analyst at Migration Policy Institute, said the memo also shows that despite ORR officials examining the impact of the administration’s enforcement tactics’ on migrant housing, they still were not adequately prepared.
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