Washington (AP) – The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who came to the United States without their parents, according to a letter from Oregon’s elder Ron Wyden on Friday.
Supports will violate the refugee transfer “the child’s well-being and the long-term commitment to these children,” said Wyden Angie Salazar, who is a director of the Bureau of Health and Human Services, responsible for the director of children coming to the United States.
“Laiper children are some of the most vulnerable children entrusted to government care,” wrote a Democratic Senator asking for deportation plans. “In most cases, these children and their families had to make an unimaginable choice to face danger and separation in search of security.”
When quoting an unidentified informant, a Wyden letter said that children who do not have parents or legitimate guardians, as a sponsor, or who do not have asylum proceedings, “will be forcibly removed from the country.”
This is another step into the extensive immigration efforts of the Trump administration, including plans to lay off officers to Chicago to deal with immigration, increase deportations and end protection for people who had a residence and work permit in the US.
The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to the requests to comment on the last step, which was first reported by CNN. The Guatemalan government refused to comment.
“This step threatens to distinguish between children from their families, lawyers and support systems so that they can bring them back to the same conditions they are looking for asylum, and will disappear for vulnerable children outside American law and care,” the Wyden said.
Immigrant children have often experienced access to the United States due to their young age and trauma, and their treatment is one of the most sensitive problems of immigration. The Bar Groups have already sought to ask the court to suspend new short administration inspection procedures for unaccompanied children, saying that changes support families longer and are inhumane.
In July, the head of the Guatemalan Immigration Service said the government was seeking to repatriate 341 unaccompanied minors who were kept in US offices.
“The idea is to bring them back before they reached 18 so that they would not be taken to the adult detention center,” said Danil Rivera, Director of the Institute of Immigration at that time. He said it would be done at the expense of Guatemala and would be a form of voluntary return.
The plan was announced by President Bernard Arévalo, who then claimed that the government had a moral and legal duty to defend children. His comments appeared a few days after the US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi noem visited Guatemala.
Migrants traveling without their parents or guardians are transferred to the refugee transfer service when they are encountered by officials at the US-Mexico border. Once in the US, they often live in government shelters or foster families before they can be released by a sponsor-simply for family member-residentes.
They can ask for asylumThe status of immigration of minors or visa for victims of sexual exploitation.
The idea of repatriating so many children in their home country has caused concern with activists working with children, browsing the immigration process.
“We resented the assault of the Run’s administration’s renewed immigrant children’s rights,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, President and CEO of the Immigrant Defenders. “We are not cheated on their attempt to disguise these efforts just ‘repatriations’. This is another estimated attempt to terminate the little appropriate process in the immigration system. ‘
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Gonzalez reported from Mcallen, Texas. AP writers Sonia Pérez D. Guatemala, and Tim Sullivan Minneapolis, contributed to this report.