Well, the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration is now shifting its focus to migrant families antichildren. Three sources familiar with the plan tell NB News that US immigration agents are working on two new operations. s. n They’ll arrest migrant adults and their minor children regardless of their criminal histories. Remember, the administration initially said it would focus on migrants who had committed crimes. NBC News senior Homeland Security correspondent Ju Anerley has been covering this, of course. She joins.
us with more on her report. Haylie, Good morning. ng. I So,. So, what are some of the details of this new operation and when do we think it begins? ins? gig Well, weld, we think that it could be underway now. now. Savannah But sometimes they won’t exactly tell us about these operations until we start to hear either from the family members or lawyers the country. so the country. un What What we’re hearing is that they’re going to families. These people who have final orders of removal but not necessarily criminal histories. as. is.
meaning that the only thing that they may have done would be a civil violation of immigration law rather than an actual misdemeanor, to announce mass deportations. They’re also getting more warrants to be able to go to children who came in unaccompanied and were released without court dates. They’re tracking down those children, getting them in the court system and making sure that they show up so that they.
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They could eventually be deported as well, and Savannah, ha, this could all be very complicated for them because, of course, children get more protections under the system. It’s harder to deport children, especially those who come unaccompanied. When you hold a family before they’re deported, you have to hold them in family detention and children have only been held by Health and Human Services before they’re released into the country. entry. outcry. It’s unclear what they would do if they did a mass sweep of unaccompanied children where people.
People would be held or those children would be held before deportation is really a mystery because it’s never been done like that on such a large scale before. Yeah, ah, s Julie, I mean, speaking of family detention, you’ve reported this week that the Trump Administration is working to bring back the family detention center. They were closed under President Biden but there are some potential challenges. Here, as of the first families, they are now sleeping in family detention centers. The first one.
to be officially open is KS, Texas. That amity residential center that was in operation under the first Trump administration. n. Would point out that that the Obama was the first to use family detention, but the way it’s being used now, Joe, is completely different and that’s where they could run into some of those legal challenges and logistical challenges. as Previously, this was to hold families who had recently crossed the border before they were released with court dates and by a court order.
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would only be held for 20 days. Now we’re talking about families who have been uprooted, people who were living in the United States, sending their children to school before they’re deported to their home countries so this is a very different population that you’re dealing with and it’s unclear if they’ll be able to deport them within that 20-day time frame that’s mandated by the courts and how they’ll get access to legal counsel and if they’ll be able to appeal that decision before they’re deported. d. Joe’s Julia,.
IA, IE of what is different like this time around because it’s not the first time a policy like this has been in place? liken back to 2014, 4, the Obama, the then and now the Trump and Biden administrations have all tried to know, know, deter families and unaccompanied minors from even crossing the border in the first place, so is what you’re mentioning what makes o is what you’re mentioning what makes this different? teak ,a absolutely. In fact, some of my colleagues and I have been talking to people who work in facilities like this and in the past they said, You know, we really felt like we.
We were providing a humanitarian service to some of these people who had just crossed the border. They were coming in; some of them were getting medical care for the first time that they had needed for a long time before they were sent out into the United States to pursue asylum claims. The population they’re getting now is going to feel completely differently about the reason they’re in detention. These are people, like we were providing a hum, said the border. They were coming in; some of them were getting medical care for the first time that they had needed for a long time before they were sent out into the United States to pursue asylum claims. The population they’re getting now is going to feel completely differently about the reason they’re in detention. These are people, like we said, who.
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They were caught in K’s Texas last night—they’re not recent border crossers, Savannah, which means they too have been arrested from the interior of the United States. All right, Julia, thank you very much. Thanks for watching.
