Miami, USA
the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, in English) has been 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, order to Control Centers i Disease Prevention (CDC, in English) use their emergency powers to seal the borders of United States, despite the reluctance shown by the country’s top health agency, according to press reports.
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Under the pretext of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration thus further tightening its migration policy by expelling most migrants arriving in the country 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 in November in the Government to stop expelling unaccompanied migrant children without allowing them to make asylum or asylum applications.
But this 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 hospitals in USA, so their children are legally American citizens, although that is not why they stopped being expelled from the country shortly after birth and without receiving their citizenship documentation.
Honduran Joana said to The interception that when she felt pain in childbirth she crossed the border in search of help and was taken to an American hospital, where her son was born, but that when she was discharged she was sent back a 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 in which the border closure for covid-19 was announced last March, the interim secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, assured that the CDC they had determined that the coronavirus posed a “serious danger” to immigrants, agents and officers, and the American people.
However, an investigation of 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 the objections of senior US officials. CDC “.
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.