Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun reviewing cases of immigrant children and women, who are in detention while seeking for asylum or other relief to remain the U.S. legally.
“Going forward, ICE will generally not detain mothers with children, absent a threat to public safety or national security, if they have received a positive finding for credible or reasonable fear and the individual has provided a verifiable residential address,” Richard Rocha, a spokesman for ICE, said in a statement, according to the Huffington Post.
A couple of months ago, more than a hundred Democratic Congress members told the Department of Homeland Security that they were deeply concerned about the consequences of detaining women and children. In a letter, they told DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson that the jail-like facilities were troublesome, with “conditions of confinement, issues of due process and serious developmental and medical concerns.”
“DHS has not fully grasped the serious harm being inflicted upon mothers and children in custody,” the letter said.
Then in June, Johnson said the department needed to make “substantial changes” to its family and children detention practices. He proposed releasing families who post bond (that are realistic and reasonable, he said) or meet other conditions for release.
(Even the New York Times editorial board called on the government to stop detaining families.)
There will be three facilities—two in Texas and one in Pennsylvania—that will continue to detain women and children who are recently apprehended or who are denied release, the Huffington Post write up said.
Last year, about 70,000 of mostly Central American women and children were apprehended in the U.S.-Mexico border, something President Obama called a humanitarian crisis. Many of them are fleeing gang and drug violence or extreme poverty in their native countries.
Here’s a great mini doc by VICE that follows Central Americans as they cross into Mexico and then the U.S. These are the dangers these women and youth face when they decide to come North.
This article appears in Jul 9-15, 2015.
STOP REWARDING,,, START DEPORTING !!!!!!
They never should have been placed in detention in the first place.
Send them all to Maria’s house. She will be more than happy to house, feed and provide for them.
When she runs out of room, they can camp in her backyard.
She will also be adding them all to her Healthcare plan and will allow them to drive her car without a license and without insurance.
Release them so they can continue doing this:
Hispanic births, drive 78% US population growth.http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/…
42% of Latino households are single parent. http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/table…
53% of Hispanic women have illegitimate births ● http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/32943…
Welfare use by Immigrant Households with Children in states where the households have the highest use rates are Arizona (62%) Texas, California and New York (61%) each and Pennsylvania(59%).The study focused on eight major welfare programs that cost the government $517 billion the year they were examined. http://cis.org/immigrant-welfa..
Why do people downvote facts? It’s almost like they don’t want real information to interfere with their agenda….
TUSD already subsidizes over 70 percent of the students offering them free meals and even feeding them when school is not in session. I recently was told that these percentages are even higher in Los Angeles. In LA schools they also feed all students breakfast every morning. Families should take responsibility for feeding their own children. If you say they’ll starve, the parents never should have had the kids if they can’t support them.