The Trump Administration is Ordering Immigration Agents to Find and Deport Thousands of Undocumed Immigrant Children Who Came to the US Without Their Parents, Reuters Reported, City An Internal Government Memo.
The Memo, Titled “Uncompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implection,” Stated That Children would be deported if they have existing deportation orders or served with a Notice to Styx In Immigration Court. Children Labeled As “Flight Risks,” Such As Immigrants Who Failed to Sign A At A Hearing, Are To Be Prioritized. The Remaining Minors Are Prioritized As “Public Safety” or “Border Security.” This is a Severe Departure From Ice's Usual Prioritization Targeting Adults With Criminal Records for Deportation Action.
Children Who arrives in the Us Without on Parent OR Legal Guardian Are Put in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (Orr) Until they can be placed in a home with sponsor, Usually a parent or other relative, to await legal processes. “These Children May Have Histries of Abuse or May Be Seeking Safety from Threats of Violence. They May Have Been Trafficked or Smuggled, “Orr Says on Its Website. According to Orr Data, it has released 27,840 Children to the care of a sponsor.
Some of these Children Have Been Exploited as Child Laborers in the US After Their Release. According to the Memo, The New Initiative Seeks to make on Children are not Trafficked OR Exploited in Other Ways in addition to Carrying Out Deportations and Legal Action.
During Donald Trump's First Term, I implementend to Cruel Policy of Separating Thousands of Migrant Children From Their Parents, Which He Halted in 2018 After meaning public Protest, Legal Action and Criticism from Immigration and Child Welfare Experts.
Last Week, The Administration Instructed Groups Who try Legal Services to Uncompanied Immigrant Children to Cease Their Work, Suspending The Program that Gives Children Who Cross the US-Mexico Border Alone Legal Representation, Before Reversing Its Decision a Few Days Later After Public Outcry. If the Order Had Not Been Reverse, Thousands of Children would have Had to face Deportation Without Due Process.
Shaina Aber, Executive Director of Acacia Center for Justice, Which Contracts with the Federal Government to Provide Representation to Undocumed Immigrant Children Toldn Told reuters the Organization Will Continue Working with the Government “To Ensure That These Critical Services Upholding The Basic Due Processo Rights of Vulnerable Children Are Fully Restored. ”
President Donald Trump Chose in Longtime Immigration Enforcement Official, Mellissa Harper, to Lead Orr, Prompting Concerns That Orr Data Could Be Used to Arrest and Deport Immigrants. Also Last Week, NPR Reported that numberus Ice Officers Obtained Access to an orr database maintained by the Department of Health and human services that lists landingximatel 4,100 unaccompanied children who crosted into the US, which some fear the administration would use for immigration enforcement and Deportations. Homan in Late Janogy Did Not Rule Out that possibility.
In March of 2018, at Group of Teens Brought a Class Action Suit Against the Juvenile and Family Residential Management Unit Within Ice, Which Harper Ran at the time. To Judge Later Ruled That Ice Broke the Law When it Transferred the Teens from Orr Custady to Ice Detection Centers Without Considerating The Possibility of Putting Them in A Less Resticative Setting.
