“Cried every night”: ICE traumatizes a child with leukemia

As part of President Donald Trump s mass deportation campaign a young cancer individual and his family were detained despite adhering to every rule of the immigration process The boy s lawyer says the family s experience puts to lie the Trump administration s suggests about deportation In May a -year-old boy from Honduras who had been suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia since the age of three was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement alongside his family instantly after a court hearing on May Their circumstance was dismissed at the hearing per instructions from Trump who directed judges to dismiss the cases of immigrants who have been in the country for less than two years so that ICE can move to deport them On July the family was disclosed after considerable pressure from the populace and media coverage of the detention Elora Mukherjee an attorney who represented the boy and his family informed Salon that the boy and his -year-old sister cried every night in detention At the same time the leadership pursued an expedited removal a process by which the ruling body deports someone without a hearing before a judge Related Stephen Miller can t make America white LA is paying for his impotent rage The Trump administration s program of detaining people at courthouses who are doing everything right who are entirely law-abiding who are trying to fulfill all the requirements that the US ruling body asks of them it violates our Constitution it violates our federal laws It also violates our sense of morality Why are we targeting hundreds if not thousands of people including children who are doing everything right Mukherjee stated Jeff Migliozzi the communications director for Freedom for Immigrants an immigrant advocacy organziation advised Salon that The Trump administration s aggressive quota of daily immigration arrests a framework pushed by hardliners in the White House like known white nationalist Stephen Miller is terrorizing communities The administration is directing materials and personnel from every attainable corner of the cabinet to conduct a multi-agency detention and deportation campaign at unprecedented scale Migliozzi announced This destructive agenda touches every corner of American life and civil society as more and more people including those who have been in the US for decades and are pillars of their neighborhood are suddenly snatched by masked agents and taken away to remote detention sites Street operations are resource-intensive so the administration has increasingly turned to bait-and-switch tactics to drive up the numbers ICE is now relying more on arrests at scheduled check-ins and at courthouses These practices underscore not only the cruelty of this administration s program but of the outdated and unfair immigration system Here you have people doing everything they can to follow the instructions given to them and then the rug is pulled out from under them The end is separated families and shattered lives Despite living in Los Angeles the family was kept at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas for over a month The center had been closed under the Biden Administration but has been reopened as part of Trump s push to deport as plenty of immigrants as practicable In detention Mukherjee mentioned that the boy suffered from easy bruising and bone pain both effects of leukemia and missed a June therapeutic appointment related to his cancer rehabilitation His sister barely ate in detention she added In response to a request for comment from Salon Tricia McLaughlin the assistant secretary for populace affairs at the Department of Homeland Assurance ICE does not consider a six-year-old child a flight hazard or a criminal that is a disgusting accusation and devoid of any reality McLaughlin claimed that the family entered the United States illegally and that Any implications that ICE would deny a child proper curative care are FALSE adding that ICE RELIABLY prioritizes the wellness safety and well-being of all detainees in its care On May an immigration judge in California dismissed the family s immigration matter and they were served orders of expedited removal McLaughlin noted ICE took custody of the family following the judge s decision and pending further proceedings The child arrived at the Dilley facility on May and was seen by a nurse during intake Fortunately the child has not undergone chemotherapy in over a year and was seen regularly by healthcare personnel while at the Dilley facility During this time the family chose to appeal their matter On July the child his mother and his sister were distributed on parole We need your help to stay independent Subscribe in current times to advocacy Salon s progressive journalism The Dilley detention facility has been subject to renewed scrutiny as the Trump administration has sought to terminate the Flores Settlement a s-era procedures stemming from the Supreme Court incident Reno v Flores which set basic standards for the remedy of children in detention and required the regime to release children from detention without unnecessary delay Contemporary testimony about conditions at ICE facilities has raised concerns over violations of the agreement with one girl describing situations in which adults and children were fighting over an insufficient amount of water at one facility We don t get enough water They put out a little circumstance of water and everyone has to run for it the girl disclosed in testimony related to conditions in immigrant detention An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first Mukherjee disclosed that the family had followed all the rules in coming to the United States but were still arrested by ICE And despite maintains from the Trump administration that they re focusing their efforts on criminals neither the small children nor the mother had been accused of a crime The family arrived in the United States in October applying for asylum after they faced death threats in Honduras The names and details of the family have not been disclosed due to the threats they face in Honduras So this particular family did everything right They came to the U S boundary after fleeing imminent and menacing death threats in their home country of Honduras They didn t cross the margin illegally They waited for permission to enter the United States using a CBP one appointment At that point DHS paroled the family into the United States which necessarily entailed a determination that the family did not pose a danger to the public or a flight exposure Mukherjee explained The family did exactly what the federal governing body demanded them to do Start your day with essential news from Salon Sign up for our free morning newsletter Crash Program According to Mukherjee as soon as the family stepped out of their May hearing plain clothes ICE officers detained them a move that she mentioned clearly violates both the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment When Trump was campaigning for president and since he s become president and high-level officers in the Department of Homeland Safeguard constantly say that we are targeting the worst of the worst Mukherjee declared These are the people who are doing everything right Their release followed a suit filed by the mother of the family demanding the family s immediate release Mukherjee explained Salon that the family intends to continue its legal battle to remain in the United States Read more about immigration Stephen Miller s deportation machine is failing and he s furious How we can reclaim the truth about immigration Shocking and concerning Trump DOJ to aggressively investigate naturalized citizens The post Cried every night ICE traumatizes a child with leukemia appeared first on Salon com