Advocates fear government will create new form of family separation
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.In this file photo taken on June 21, 2018, security personnel stand before shoes and toys left at the Tornillo Port of Entry where minors crossing the border without proper papers have been housed after being separated from adults in Tornillo, Texas.
Gee oversees a settlement known as the Flores agreement that governs the treatment of immigrant children in U.S. custody. Her ruling did not extend to parents detained with their children. The Trump administration has already indicated in court that it doesn’t believe parents should be released due to concerns about the coronavirus’ fast spread through U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centres.
Peter Schey, co-founder of the non-profit Center for Human Rights and constitutional Law, represents the interest of detained children under the Flores agreement. Schey said Thursday that because the Trump administration won’t release all families, “parents might have to make a choice between remaining together in custody or having their child released to close relatives.”
Other lawyers for parents and children detained at ICE’s three family detention centres in Texas and Pennsylvania sharply criticized Schey, saying any waiver process would be akin to a new form of family separation, the practice that drew international condemnation when implemented by the U.S. at the southern border in 2018.
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