One girl's case shows how Trump officials target migrant minors for deportation, lawyers scramble for their release and the kids live with the chaos.
Mark Weber, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, which houses the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, which Congress
The teen was being held in Texas by the refugee resettlement agency. The 16-year-old had crossed the border by herself in March, not realizing she already had a removal order waiting for her, according to her lawyers.In early May, officials at the refugee agency blocked the detained teen from speaking to a reporter, despite the permission of the teen, her parent and her legal representatives, a move legal experts say violated her rights.
The girl’s mother ultimately went back to Guatemala, like thousands of those forced into Mexico by what the administration calls its Migrant Protection Protocols.Some 65,000 migrants have been subject to the policy. At least 1,114 have been kidnapped, raped or assaulted in Mexico, including 265 kidnappings or attempted kidnappings of children,
Advocates argue that unaccompanied minors are entitled to receive immigration hearings under U.S. law, regardless of whether they’d entered the country before. Administration lawyers, however, argue that these minors already had hearings with their parents under Migrant Protection Protocols and were ordered removed back to their home countries.
Because of the coronavirus, neither Soliman nor any of the girl’s team of lawyers in Texas or Louisiana was ever able to meet her in person. “I don’t have a way of communicating with her,” Page said Friday, just hours before the flight. “I don’t think anyone does.”Although Page lost in court, the Guatemalan government’s order stopping deportation flights on Friday temporarily gave the girl a reprieve.
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