7/4/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/ICE/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Immigrants separated from their children after being arrested for illegally entering the U.S. at the Mexican border are being asked to choose between being deported alone or with their children. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started giving parents who have been given deportation orders a form laying out their options after a federal judge in San Diego last month ordered the administration to reunite immigrant families separated by federal authorities at the border with Mexico. Jennifer Elzea, an ICE spokeswoman, said the agency has had a ‘longstanding’ policy of giving parents about to be deported a choice of being sent home with or without children. The new form is specifically for parents who were separated from their children at the border under the administration’s zero-tolerance policy. Separately, the Department of Health and Human Services told lawmakers this week that congressional interest in visiting shelters for unaccompanied migrant children has become so overwhelming that it was constraining federal resources and threatening the ability to quickly reunite families.”

Alicia A. Caldwell and Stephanie Armour, “Parents Facing Deportation Are Asked to Decide Whether Children Go Too,” The Wall Street Journal, July 4, 2018 5:30 am