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Migrant children waiting in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border to be processed by Border Patrol are in the custody of the federal agency and should be processed quickly and taken to safe, sanitary facilities, a judge ruled. federal.
Abel Nuñez, director of CARECEN Washington DC.
“The Border Patrol, their argument was that they had no control because they had not processed these immigrants. We must remember that right now on the border with all the detention centers full they have set up camps.”
The case was resolved after Judge Rebecca Santana evaluated a lawsuit filed by organizations on behalf of dozens of unaccompanied or accompanied children who have arrived in recent months at a makeshift camp in Jacumba, California, 72 miles east of San Diego.
Pedro De Velasco, legal director Kino Border Initiative
“The ruling confirms that before everything, before being the United States, Mexico, before being a government and a migrant, we are all human beings”
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to our request for comment on the judge's decision. In her decision, the judge based her decision on the Flores Agreement, which since 1997 established minimum standards for the treatment, shelter and release of detained immigrant children and their delivery to their parents or relatives. Paula Díaz, Voice of America.
