The newest addition to the Trump administration reign of terror: The White House announced a new rule that would dismantle migrant protections and allow the detention of children and their families indefinitely, with no time limit.
after lawsuits brought by the ACLU; in an earlier decision that predates the Trump administration, a judge also ruled that children cannot be held in detention for more than 20 days even if their mother is being held pending an asylum resolution claim. That legal decision has frustrated the Trump administration because it requires that these children cannot be kept in custody with their mothers in detention for longer than 20 days, and many hearings are being delayed well beyond 20 days.
The Trump administration also tried to have asylum-seekers kept in Mexico pending their hearings, but a federal judge issued a temporary bar to that order. Furious about the continued flow of migrants at the border and court rulings that thwart his policies, Trump also fired the heads of the Department of Homeland Security and other departments and is planning to bring in new people who will undoubtedly be even more hardline and heartless.
Trump’s callous policies, designed to be cruel to deter asylum seekers, are not working. They are not stemming the flow of asylum seekers. The more Trump threatens to close the border and build a wall, the more people from Northern Triangle Central American countries get worried and try to pre-empt the impact of such plans. They migrate north to the U.S. border seeking asylum because they don’t want to be left without the option to.
Nonetheless, Trump persists—trying to find ways to get around the court rulings to reinstate his fear-mongering and de-humanizing policies and perpetuating a manufactured crisis at the border with very real and cruel consequences for those seeking safety in the U.S. from gang violence and domestic violence.
For many years, the U.S. has been a beacon of light and hope for people who are seeking asylum. Domestic and international law mandates that we live up to that image.
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