YOU WON’T BELIEVE TRUMP’S PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR TARGETING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
ICE is now conducting interviews with the family members of immigrant children, potentially preventing them from reuniting out of fear that they, too, will be deported. ICE officials have also started interviewing the children and, in some cases, asking them if they want to self deport.
RAICES, a nonprofit refugee and immigrant center that helps with legal services and other needs, told Daily Kos that Trump's coordinated attacks are all part of the administration's plan to "destroy confidence in the integrity of long-held, lawful pathways to immigration relief" for people of all ages.
"Under the guise of law and order, the administration has criminalized everyone from families attending their scheduled asylum hearings in immigration courts nationwide, only to be arrested and detained through the collusion of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security—to kids fleeing persecution, only to be shackled on this weekend’s attempted deportation flights," Faisal Al-Juburi, RAICES chief external affairs officer, said.
While the Trump administration has argued that its purpose is to “reunify” children with their families, advocates argue that deporting these children just puts them in danger.
"In the dead of night on a holiday weekend, the Trump administration ripped vulnerable, frightened children from their beds and attempted to return them to danger in Guatemala," Efrén C Olivares of the National Immigration Law Center, which filed the suit to block the deportation, said in a statement obtained by the BBC.
