Trump breaks promises: separates 463 more families

"C considers this decree to be very important, it is to keep families together while ensuring a strong border. I do not like the image of seeing separated families, "Donald Trump said on June 20 to end the controversial separation of immigrant children from their parents.

A month later, the President of the United States seems After a report by the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 463 parents were deported to Central America without their children.The new wave of evictions is compounding the crisis created by the separation of more than three thousand families, 24 hours after the deadline set by the US administration to gather all Central Americans.

The report does not specify why these foreigners were expelled from the United States, but the government officials They have already acknowledged that some have been deported without their children. The ACLU denounced that the parents had signed the eviction order without the advice of a lawyer.

The United States government has not been able to meet the deadlines for the reunification of the three thousand separated families. "The Ministry of Health knows the identity and location of every child of the 3,000 who are in our custody and is acting to reunite the family as quickly as possible," said Alex Azar, owner of this despatch, last July 5th.

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However, the NGOs denounce the disorder with which the authorities The Americans take these cases: they misplaced the files and do not have the addresses of some of the parents who were expelled.

US District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego last month ordered the government to reunite children with their parents in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ). 19659005] Last Monday, the Ministry of Health – which is in charge of the protection of minors – said that 917 parents do not meet the conditions required to receive their children or that we still do not know whether they are pregnant or not. they can be reunited with them. This figure includes parents who are no longer in the country, as well as those who have been found unfit because of criminal convictions or for other reasons.

Advocates of immigrants expressed concern about expelled parents without their consent. children, saying that the situation can create problems with children's cases. "How can we go ahead in a case if we do not know the wishes of the parents?" Megan McKenna, spokesperson for Kids in Need of Defense, told Reuters earlier this month

. , which he accuses of having pbaded a law on immigration. "I hate that these children are separated (from their families) .The Democrats must change the law.It is their law," said the president during an extraordinary contact with the press in the gardens of the White House, June 15th.

Violating human rights

All immigrants are protected by international law

• The International Covenant on civil and political rights, ratified by the United States in 1992, states that when a government arrest, detain or imprison a person, it must treat it with humanity and respect "the inherent dignity of the person
• agreed at the American Academy of Pediatrics, the conditions in US detention centers are deplorable: "Forcing children to sleep on cement floors, open toilets, constant exposure to light, food and water deficiency, bathing facilities and extremely cold temperatures. "
• According to the Academy, the effects of detention on children and parents often incl. "Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder."
• For the more than three thousand children separated from their parents at the border, the effects are even more damaging. In a recent article of New England Journal of Medicine Fiona Danaher, a pediatrician, ensures that separation can hinder the development of children and cause physical and mental illnesses for life.

Martha Cotoret (all my photos)