Miami.- La Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP) has expelled in the last months of United States to newborn babies in the country along with their mothers, who were undocumented immigrants who had just crossed the border, the media reported on Saturday The interception.
Last March, the vice president, Mike Pence, Ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to use its emergency powers to seal the borders of the United States, Despite the reluctance shown by the principal health agency of country, according to press reports.
Under the pretext of the pandemic of the coronavirusThe Trump administration further tightened its immigration policy by expelling most migrants arriving in the United States in search of asylum or who were detained entering illegally, including minors unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
However, a judge ordered the government in November to stop expelling him migrant children unaccompanied without allowing them to make asylum or asylum requests.
But that decision did not affect adults, such as those interviewed by The Intercept, 3 asylum-seeking mothers who crossed the border while pregnant and gave birth in U.S. hospitals, so their children are legally American citizens, although this did not stop them from being expelled from the country shortly after birth and without receiving their citizenship documentation.
Honduran Joana told The Intercept that when she felt labor pains she crossed the border in search of help and was taken to an American hospital, where her son was born, but that she was given high they sent her back to Mexico.
“The law does not allow the rapid expulsion of U.S. citizens,” Nicole Ramos, of the Other Side, a legal and social services organization that is investigating the expulsions and says she is aware of eight mothers in this situation.
During the public event announcing the border closure of Covid-19 last March, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf said the CDC had determined that the coronavirus posed a “serious danger” to the Covid-19. immigrants, agents and officers and the American people.
However, an investigation by The Wall Street Journal found that, according to a review of internal government documents and interviews with people involved in the process, this measure “was driven by immigration officials in the administration. despite objections from senior CDC officials. “
Currently, On the Other Side is working to ensure that children receive at least their American passports and birth certificates and in a complaint they trust will trigger an official investigation to prevent the expedited expulsion of citizens from happening again.
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