Washington (AP) – Trump’s administration plans to eliminate nearly 700 Guatemal children who came to the US without parents, according to a letter sent by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and the Central American country said it was ready to take them.
Removal would violate “a refugee care mandate and a long -established duty of this country to these children,” said Wyden Angie Salazar, reigning director of the Office within the Ministry of Health and Human Services, which is, which is that it is Responsible for migrant children who arrive only in the US.
“This step threatens to separate children from their families, lawyers and support systems to push them back into the conditions they are looking for a refuge from the conditions they are looking for, and vulnerable children disappear from the reach of US law and supervision,” wrote a democratic senator and asked to end deportation plans.
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It’s another step in sweeping Trump’s administration Efforts to promote immigrationwhich include Plans to overvoltage officers to Chicago For immigration intervention, increasing deportations and The end of protection For people who had permission to live and work in the United States.
Guatemala says he is ready to take children
Guatemal Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Martínez said on Friday that the government had said the USA was willing to accept hundreds of Guatemalan minors who arrived unaccompanied to the United States and were held in American facilities.
Guatemala is particularly concerned about minors who could age from children’s facilities and be sent to adult retention centers, he said. The exact number of children to be returned remains in the flow but currently discussed a little more than 600. He said no date for their return.
That would be almost twice as far as Guatemala agreed. The immigration service manager in the country said last month that the government is Looking at the repatriation of 341 minors unaccompanied who were held in American facilities.
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“The intention is to bring them back before they reach 18 years, so that they are not transported to the adult retention center,” said Danilo Rivera, director of the Immigration Institute at that time. He said it would be done on Guatemala’s expenditure and it would be a form of voluntary return.
The plan was announced by President Bernardo Arenvalo, who then said that the government has a moral and legal obligation to defend children. His comments came to us after us Minister of Inner Security Kristi Noem visited Guatemala.
Wyden’s letter says that children will be forcibly removed ‘
The White House and the Ministry of Health and Human Services did not respond immediately to requests for commentary on the last move reported for the first time CNN.
Wyden’s letter quoted by unidentified whistleblowers said that children who do not have parents or legal representatives as a sponsor or who no longer have a asylum case, “will be forcibly removed from the country.”
“Children unaccompanied are some of the most vulnerable children entrusted to government care,” Wyden wrote. “In many cases, these children and their families had to decide to face danger and separation in finding security.”
The idea of repatriation also raised concerns with activists who work with children navigation in the immigration process.
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“We are outraged by the renewed attack by Trump’s administration on the rights of immigrants,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, president and CEO of the Legal Center of Immigrants’ defenders. “Their attempt to camouflage this effort is not deceived as mere” repatriation “. This is another calculated attempt to interrupt what remains in the immigration system only a small process.”
Due to their age and traumatic immigrant children unaccompanied, they have often experienced to get to the US, their treatment is one of the most sensitive problems in immigration. Advocacy groups have already sued to ask the courts to stop the new Trump administration Progresses of unaccompanied children’s checksthat say the changes keep families separate and are inhuman.
Children of migrants passengers without their parents or legal representatives are handed over to the Office for Refugee Discussion when officials encounter them along the American-Mexican border. As soon as they were in the US, they often live in shelters documented by the government or with foster care families until they are released by the sponsor-permanently family member-eating in the country.
They can apply for asylumyouthful immigration status or visas for victims of sexual exploitation.
Gonzalez informed McALlen in Texas. This report was contributed by the writers AP Sonia Pérez D. in Guatemala and Tim Sullivan in Minneapolis.
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