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Washington – Hundreds of migrant families who entered the United States illegally and whose children were separated from their parents, provoking a huge outcry, were still unclear on Thursday, waiting for the deadline set by the court for let them be together.
A federal judge of California ordered that all families " eligible " be reunited before 18H00 (22H00 GMT) Thursday.
Are considered as " eligible " cases where family ties have been determined, when the parents have no criminal history or contagious disease, and when they have not given up reunion.
Of 2,551 separated families, with children between 5 and 17 years old, 1,634 are " eligible ", still according to the criteria of the American government. And more than 1,000 of them have already been reunited.
But the Trump administration has already warned that 917 parents whose families do not meet the criteria would not see their children before the deadline. In 463 cases, the parents have already been expelled from the United States.
– Zero Tolerance in the Courts –
" This shows that the family unity and well-being of children who are already traumatized is not a priority for the government. Trump when all separated children will be reunited with their families, and why this is not yet the case ", responded Hans Van de Weerd, vice president of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), refugee badistance organization.
Donald Trump's " zero tolerance " policy, implemented between April and June, resulted in the detention of thousands of people who illegally entered the United States as clandestine claimants. asylum.
However, between 2,300 and 3,000 children who arrived with their parents were dismissed and placed in Ministry of Health centers, sometimes thousands of kilometers away.
There was so much indignation in the United States that President Trump was forced to review his copy in June, banning the systematic separation of families by decree.
At the end of June, federal judge Dana Sabraw, who sits in San Diego, California, did not stop the American authorities from ordering that a hundred or so migrant children under the age of five be reunited before 10 July with their parents, and by July 26, 2200 GMT, for those over five.
On Tuesday, US administration lawyers explained that 1,012 parents were now with their offspring.
De facto, " 917 other cases, including the 463 that could be out of the United States, will not be reunited before the deadline ", reported to AFP Adam Isacson, from the Washington Office on Latin America NGO (WOLA).
" Finding parents in Mexico and Central America will be a long and difficult task ," warns Stephen Kang, a lawyer for the powerful civil rights organization ACLU, who has lodged a complaint against the government , asking that families be gathered together.
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