Even the NYT is forced to admit things have changed on the border -- including shutting the Obama Era “Unaccompanied Alien Child”‘ pipeline
Hundreds of migrant children and teenagers have been swiftly deported by American authorities amid the coronavirus pandemic without the opportunity to speak to a social worker or plea for asylum from the violence in their home countries — a reversal of years of established practice for dealing with young foreigners who arrive in the United States.
The deportations represent an extraordinary shift in policy that has been unfolding in recent weeks on the southwestern border, under which safeguards that have for decades been granted to migrant children by both Democratic and Republican administrations appear to have been abandoned.
They were able to do this thanks to the coronavirus and Title 42, which allows border agents to block any migrants coming across the border at the request of the CDC (which overrides the Obama Admin views on the coyote/agency pipeline). The Trump Admin is using CDC orders and Title 42 to create a barrier that continues until "the serious danger from #COVID19 has ceased.”
10 Years Old, Tearful and Confused After a Sudden Deportation
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The people directly involved in the human trafficking are shocked that their children are being returned to them --
When she lost an initial [asylum] decision, she decided [the 10-year-old boy] would be better off temporarily with her brother in the United States. She watched him swim across the Rio Grande.
The woman expected he would be treated the same as before, when such children were picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol and taken to Department of Health and Human Services facilities for eventual placement with a sponsor, usually a relative.
But the mother heard nothing until six days later, when her family received a call from a shelter in Honduras. “They had thrown him out to Honduras,” she said. “We didn’t know anything.”
Why youth migrants at U.S. border face immediate deportation
