Report: What About My Children: Family Separation Among Parents Deported to Honduras
The Trump administration is deporting a significant number of parents without asking them if they have children or allowing them to decide whether to bring their children with them, in apparent violation of its own policies, a report has found.
In interviews with dozens of parents deported to Honduras, as well as physicians and psychologists, government officials and staff, "researchers found that many parents were deported quickly after they were detained, without a chance to arrange for the care of their children."
Here is an abstract of the report:
"A new report from the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), based on firsthand interviews with recently deported parents and reception center staff in Honduras, documents clear violations of US immigration policy. The report finds ICE failed to follow its own policies to protect family unity, including a requirement that they ask anyone they arrest if they have children and ensure that parents have an opportunity to decide what happens to their children if they are deported. The report also found pregnant and postpartum women detained and deported without adequate medical care, in violation of ICE’s own directives."
