Post by spaceflower on Jun 27, 2018 0:20:34 GMT
Seems like Trump and the border control authorities do not differentiate between asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. The children are separataed from their parents and sent to special camps.
www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23245&LangID=E
Trump blames it on the parents and on the Democrats.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/jun/22/trump-family-separation-crisis-immigration-border?page=with:block-5b2d3937e4b01266b4b86a31#block-
When was it a crime to seek asylum so that the parents should be treated as criminals and the children taken away from them? For small children this is indeed mental torture. They don't understand why their parents are not with them. And nobody seems to know when they can be united with their parents again.
The executive order signed by the US President on 20 June 2018 fails to address the situation of thousands of migrant children forcibly separated from their parents and held in detention at the border, UN experts* said. In addition, it may lead to indefinite detention of entire families in violation of international human rights standards, they said.
“This executive order does not address the situation of those children who have already been pulled away from their parents. We call on the Government of the US to release these children from immigration detention and to reunite them with their families based on the best interests of the child, and the rights of the child to liberty and family unity,” the experts said.
“Detention of children is punitive, severely hampers their development, and in some cases may amount to torture,” the experts said. “Children are being used as a deterrent to irregular migration, which is unacceptable.”
“This executive order does not address the situation of those children who have already been pulled away from their parents. We call on the Government of the US to release these children from immigration detention and to reunite them with their families based on the best interests of the child, and the rights of the child to liberty and family unity,” the experts said.
“Detention of children is punitive, severely hampers their development, and in some cases may amount to torture,” the experts said. “Children are being used as a deterrent to irregular migration, which is unacceptable.”
Trump blames it on the parents and on the Democrats.
Lawyers for Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid have agreed to represent two Central American mothers who had their children, including a two-year-old, taken away from them at the border. Both women were attempting to seek asylum for domestic abuse.
Rómulo González from Champerico, Guatemala had his right eye torn out during a kidnapping which cost his family $13,500 to free him. Fearing another attack he decided to seek asylum in the US. González was detained and his three-year-old daughter Genesis was taken away from him.
Lourdes de León agreed to be deported back to Guatemala on the condition that her six-year-old son would be returned to her. To date, Lourdes does not know where Leo Jeancarlo de León is.
“They told me that if I accepted the deportation they would give me my son back soon, but if I stayed in the United States, the process to recover him would take more than six months. All I wanted was to give him a better tomorrow, but I think I failed him,” said Lourdes de León.
Rómulo González from Champerico, Guatemala had his right eye torn out during a kidnapping which cost his family $13,500 to free him. Fearing another attack he decided to seek asylum in the US. González was detained and his three-year-old daughter Genesis was taken away from him.
Lourdes de León agreed to be deported back to Guatemala on the condition that her six-year-old son would be returned to her. To date, Lourdes does not know where Leo Jeancarlo de León is.
“They told me that if I accepted the deportation they would give me my son back soon, but if I stayed in the United States, the process to recover him would take more than six months. All I wanted was to give him a better tomorrow, but I think I failed him,” said Lourdes de León.
When was it a crime to seek asylum so that the parents should be treated as criminals and the children taken away from them? For small children this is indeed mental torture. They don't understand why their parents are not with them. And nobody seems to know when they can be united with their parents again.