Attorneys are requesting a probe into abuses they say the family faced in U.S. detention and urging immigration authorities to grant humanitarian parole to the undocumented parents.

Summary

A family with four U.S. citizen children was deported to Mexico last month, including a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain surgery.

The Texas Civil Rights Project filed a complaint alleging CBP denied medical care to the girl and detained U.S. citizen children “in deplorable conditions” before removing them to Mexico “where their lives are in peril.”

The parents, who were seeking T visas as human trafficking victims, were arrested at an immigration checkpoint while traveling for their daughter’s medical care.

Border czar Tom Homan has stated “families can be deported together” regardless of citizenship status.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, has said “families can be deported together” regardless of status. Homan said it would be up to the parents to decide whether to depart the U.S. together or leave their children behind. In this case, the parents took their children with them so the family could stay together.

    That seems like a blame shifting assumption to me. Did they have a legal guardian set up for her with solid US residency before they were blindsided with all of this? Because it’s not like they could just make one of those up on the spot, even if they had a person in mind unless that person already had filed and approved legal paperwork there would have been all sorts of options for government agents to take custody of her and send her off into CPS systems.