Not one of the 366 families in ICE detention agreed to be separated from their child when asked by the agency last week, several immigration lawyers and a senior ICE official told NBCNews.
Now, to further show compliance, ICE is drafting a new form that would ask parents to waive their rights under the Flores settlement, the ICE official said. Those rights include not holding children longer than 20 days in facilities that are not licensed to hold children, as none of the three ICE family detention centers are.
Lawyers said their immigrant clients were confused and disturbed by the form and felt that ICE officers were using it to intimidate them into giving up their children. Many of the families have been in detention since last fall waiting for the results of federal lawsuits that challenge the Trump administration's policies and procedures on asylum, said Bridget Cambria, an immigration lawyer who represents clients in the family detention center in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where many of the families include infants.
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