Mexico has rebuked the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration, which separated nearly 1,000 children from their parents at the U.S. border in 2018. The policy, known as the “Zero Tolerance” policy, directed Border Patrol agents to separate young children from their families as their parents were tried. Since early May, 2,342 children have been separated from their parents after crossing the Southern U.S. border, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy has led to the separation of over 5,000 children from their parents without any tracking process or records. Immigration reform bills aim to limit family-based immigration by defining “immediate relatives” to exclude US citizens’ parents. Children are given greater legal protections under immigration law, allowing them to be dismissed quickly while adults’ asylum cases can be dismissed. Federal immigration authorities have separated more than 900 children from their parents in the past year, some based on claims of abuse or gang ties.
House Democrats have voted to require the Trump administration to turn over documents on the policy that separated children from their parents. The administration says it must separate parents from children because of a longstanding federal court settlement, known as the Flores agreement. A government task force is tracking the fates of U.S. citizen children taken from migrant parents during the Trump administration. Mexico has called for steps to alleviate the conditions of detained minors and ensure the rights of children.
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This is what we need!!! The minors that flooded our border included teen gang members and drug dealers, and many of these children had communicable diseases that could spread rampetly through our population! My heart goes out to these children and I am all for humanitarian efforts on their behalf in the countries they come from. But minors cannot immigrate to any country, and allowing them to stay is a huge drain on our massively indebted economy and taxpayers directly. It also encourages criminal behavior including human trafficking. Years ago, I remember a man who left a refrigerated truck full of illegals to die because he feared being caught by US border patrol and police. Smugglers will “dispose” of their cargo, humans, to avoid being caught. People die. We need a wall to protect our citizens so we know who and what is comming into our country!!! Mexico has a wall on their Guatamalan border!!
I’ve had friends that were illegals but they were brought here to the US when they were infants and when they got deported they were truly afraid because they could hardly even speak spanish. Some of them already were 30 yr old men. I was lucky to be born here, so this country is all I know. But to some ppl this doesn’t matter “we need to be deported because our parents are illegal”. Last time I checked I didn’t pick my parents and neither did you.