Trump administration targets children amid push to ‘deport at all costs’
Federal lawsuit alleges kids are being repatriated despite many of them qualifying to remain in the US legally
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The Trump administration is deliberately targeting children who came to the US unaccompanied by a parent or guardian as it pushes to quickly return them to the countries they fled – amid “drastic policy changes” in immigration courts, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit shared with the Guardian.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are trying to prevent imminent deportation to the places from where they escaped danger or harm.
The complaint, filed before the US district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania on behalf of Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh (JFCS) and six of its immigrant clients, alleges that kids are being repatriated “as a means to increase deportation numbers of children as ‘priorities’ for US immigration enforcement” despite many of those kids qualifying to remain in the country legally.
Meanwhile, immigration judges have allegedly received instructions to not give children a meaningful amount of time for their immigration applications to be processed by other federal agencies, amid accelerated immigration court hearings, the plaintiffs detail in the lawsuit.
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