Family separation at the US border – Hundreds of deported parents without their children – Panorama

• Thursday, in the United States, the legal deadline for the US government to reunite immigrant families at the border has expired.
• 1800 children are back with their parents or relatives.
• 431 children can share their parents

By Johannes Kuhn Austin

This was supposed to be the last date by which US border authorities would end the separation of migrant families. Judge of the United States Government.

Until then, all children had to be handed over to their parents, with whom they had illegally crossed the border to Mexico in May and June. have been separated. The people affected were families from Central America

The Balance:

• More than 2,500 children aged 5 to 17 years were separated at the border of the parent or relative.
• 1442 of them are now reunited, 229 are currently living in eviction centers with their parents.
• 378 are with their family or loved ones
• In 900 of them there is already an eviction order.

711 children, just over a third of those affected,

• Of these cases, parents have already been expelled from 431 children and must first be found abroad (l 39; eviction is not guaranteed in all cases).
• In the case of other affected children, the government invokes incomplete basic examinations, criminal records or extradition requests from parents.
• In 79 cases, parents became their parents. a date in the immigration court giving a temporary right of residence. They are in the United States, but are not found now.
• The parents of the children have not yet been identified 37 times.

For the 105 children under five, the time limit for family reunification was already two weeks. More than half of the reunification is over, but there are problems with the deportation or criminal rights of a parent.

The US government abandoned its family division on June 20 after fierce protests. The children were exposed in large cages on photographs, and in a secretly recorded audio recording crying and crying toddlers who had been separated from their mothers. Some women reported that the security guards abducted the children on the pretext of bathing them.

However, reunification was also difficult because the authorities had poorly documented the cases. In some cases, the records had to be manually compared or genetic tests used to badign the children to their parents.

In recent days too, the merger has been partly chaotic. Anonymous border authorities report that children have been accidentally transported to bad parts of the country. A couple of brothers and sisters were taken to New York to learn, according to their lawyer, that their mother may have been deported. Activists blame parents for being "free" even though they spent days waiting for their children to arrive in detention centers without contact with the outside world.

Criticizing Deportation of Parents

More importantly for a fierce criticism in which parents have already been expelled. Some have claimed that they persuaded them to emigrate to Central America in false circumstances. "It is very likely that these parents will never see their children again," said John Sandweg, former acting director of immigration immigration enforcement (ICE).

These deportations and the fact that not all families have been reunited Initially, there are no immediate consequences for the US government. The judge acknowledged his willingness to enforce his sentence.

On Friday, he will rule on the request of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Civil Rights Organization. It takes a period of one week between family reunification and the execution of evictions already decided, so that victims can have their case reviewed.

US law theoretically allows parents to deport their child to relatives, acquaintances or Let adoptive parents in the United States for their own asylum procedure.