Miami, United States
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP, in English) has been turned off in recent months U.S to newborn babies in the country along with their mothers, who were undocumented immigrants who had just crossed the border, the media reported this Saturday The interception.
Last March, the vice president, Mike Pence, ordered the Control centers and Disease Prevention (CDC, in English) use their emergency powers to push the boundaries of U.S, despite the reluctance of the country’s main health service, according to press reports.
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Under the pretense of the coronavirus pandemic, the Gobierno Trump thus further tightened its immigration policy by expelling the majority of migrants who came from the country. U.S asylum seekers or who were detained who entered illegally, including minors who were not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
However, a judge in November ordered the government stop deporting unaccompanied migrant children without allowing them to submit refugee or asylum applications.
But this decision didn’t affect adults, such as those interviewed by The Intercept, three asylum-seeking mothers who crossed the border while pregnant and gave birth in hospitals in EE.UU., therefore their children are legally US citizens, although that is not why they were no longer deported from the country shortly after birth and without receiving their citizenship documentation.
Honduran Juana told The interception that when she felt contractions she crossed the border in search of help and was taken to an American hospital where her son was born, but that when she was released Mexico.
“The law does not allow the rapid deportation of US citizens,” Nicole Ramos of Al Otro Lado, a legal and social services firm investigating the deportations, told the media that she is aware of eight mothers in this situation.
At the public event announcing the border closure due to COVID-19 last March, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, assured that CDC they had determined that the coronavirus posed a “grave threat” to immigrants, agents and officers and the American people.
A research on The Wall Street Journal found that, according to a review of internal government documents and interviews with people involved in the trial, said measure was “ promoted by immigration officials in the administration despite objections from senior officials of the CDC “.
Currently, Al Otro Lado is working to ensure that children at least receive their US passport and birth certificate, and a complaint they trust leads to an official investigation to prevent the accelerated deportation of civilians from happening again.