Texas, United States
The humanitarian organization Children in Need of Defense (KIND) today urged President-elect Joe Biden to take action in its first 100 days of government to ensure that unaccompanied immigrant children enter the country with access to the protections given by immigration law.
Wendy Young, president of KIND, on Thursday urged the incoming Democratic administration to reverse the policies put in place by President Donald Trump, which violate the rights of asylum seekers and have caused havoc in this community. especially in children.
The activist has called for the changes to be implemented in the first 100 days of the new government, which takes office on January 20th.
Jennifer Podkul, Vice President of KIND, explained at a press conference that there are at least three vital issues in which the new Administration is urged to take immediate action. First of all, it is urgent to Govern Biden to ensure that unaccompanied children are not expelled from the country and that they are given a fair opportunity to seek protection in the United States.
In addition, Podkul says that to try to remedy the damage caused by the Republican Administration the new Executive should devote more resources to unaccompanied minors to obtain legal representation.
For his part, Young warned that these proposals are just a small step to remedy the damage caused by the outgoing government.
The activist noted that the seriousness of the report is the report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, who says that the Trump Administration did not take into account the impact that its policy would have. ” zero tolerance “when he separated thousands of migrant children from their families.
“The Justice Department’s determined approach to increasing prosecutions came at the expense of careful and appropriate consideration of the impact that adult prosecution of family units and separations would have on children traveling with them and in the Government’s ability to reunite children later with their parents, ”the report said.
Activists urged the new government to establish a working group dedicated to the reunification of separated families under the Trump Administration.