Washington (AP)-The government of President Donald Trump carries out a nationwide review of 450,000 migrant children who exceeded the border between the USA and Mexico without their parents during the term of the term of the term.
Trump officers say they want to track down these children and ensure their security. Many of the children have come to the United States during the border in the United States in recent years and were later brought to houses with adult sponsors, typically parents, relatives or friends of the family.
Proponents of migrants are doubtful about the tactics of the Republican administration, which includes sending home protection and FBI agents to visit the children. Trump’s zero tolerance approach for immigrants in the United States has led illegal-what to flee diminutive children from the country, has applied a deep suspicion that his administration can apply the check to deport sponsors or children who do not legally live in the country.
Trump officials say that the adult sponsors who were accepted with migrant children were not always properly checked and a certain risk of exploitation were exposed. The Ministry of Justice has accused a man because of allegations that he led a 14-year-old girl to travel from Guatemala to the USA, and wrongly claimed that she was his sister to win custody as her sponsor.
Trump officials will carry out house exams and interviews
Trump officers expect more problematic sponsors to appear when the administration carries out door beats and interviews to check cases in which symptoms – around 65,000 of them since 2023 – have been submitted. According to an official of the Senior Health and Human Services, which was not authorized to discuss details of the review and the condition of anonymity.
“We comb every report, every detail -because the protection of children is not optional,” said HHS in a social media contribution to X. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to be checking during a cabinet with Trump on Wednesday and said that his agency had tried to “find the children”.
For at least one decade, the federal government has allowed adults to apply in children with migrants who crossed the border without a parent or legal guardian. However, the program was plagued during the years of democratic bidges as the officials were plagued by the officials difficulties to process an influx of thousands of children. In some cases, federal officials have carried out no background or response controls before using children with sponsors. In other cases, sponsors delivered a significantly false identification last year, a Federal Watchdog report.
After this report had been issued, the Biden administration said that it had already worked to improve the problems through “training, surveillance, technology and evaluation”.
Thousands of children were placed with legitimate sponsors
Thousands of children have also been transferred with legitimate families, some of whom are now afraid that they will be instructed in the review of the Trump government and aim at the deportation, said Mary Miller Flowers, the political director of the Young Center for Migrant Children’s Rights.
The center is commissioned to work with some of the most endangered children who exceed the border. Flowers said that many children were housed with their parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts or uncles.
In some cases, children can arrive separately from their parents who already live in the United States and reunite them through the program.
“Now you have a situation in which the government checked the well -being of children and encountered their parents without papers and puts their parents off,” said Flowers. “I don’t know what to do with the good for children.”
The government took custody of 100 children
So far, around 100 children have been removed from their sponsors in the past two months and, according to the official of the health department, again in custody for the federal government, usually in private accommodations.
In Cleveland, the federal prosecutor claimed that a man who lived illegally in the USA, the 14-year-old girl received a copy of his sister’s birth certificate, and then coordinated her trip from Guatemala to the USA.
In 2024, the man owed the child’s sexual battery in front of the state of Ohio and was sentenced to eight years in prison, said the official. The man is now charged with the state, including the induction of the illegal entry for financial profits and severe identity theft. The man’s lawyers rejected a comment.
As part of the review, the Trump administration is working to identify the location of each child that was used with a sponsor, said the official Ministry of Justice. The investigators carry out suspicious sponsorship applications such as so-called “super sponsors” who claimed to have family relationships with more than a dozen unaccompanied children, the official said.
Videos and reports from armed law enforcement officers who dive at the front doors of unaccompanied minors and their sponsors have appeared from all over the country.
In an e-mail declaration, the FBI said that it was carried out by “nationwide” welfare tests because “children protect a critical mission” and adds that it would continue to work with its “federal government, state and local partners and local partners to secure their security and well-being”.
However, supporters have applied doubts that children will open up abuse or other concerns about their sponsors for armed law enforcement officers from federal authorities who also carry out mass deportation campaigns.
H2The The search for children has led to the deportation of some adults
In Hawaii, Homeland Security Agents Kona searched for unaccompanied minors and their sponsors. According to a news report from the Honolulu Civil Report, two families were deported and another child was back into federal custody. Last month, a lawyer in North Virginia published a video of five federal agents who attended the home of his client who was waiting for a green card to get a welfare check. And in Omaha, a 10-year-old who came to the USA unaccompanied about three years ago and was visited in “black, tactical equipment” in “black, tactical equipment” two weeks ago. According to his lawyer Julia Cryne, he was asked a number of questions, including the status of his sponsor.
“You use this as a way to pursue the children,” said Cryne. She added that her client recently approved his application for a Green Card.
H2NEW rules make sponsors more challenging
The Trump administration has changed the way the sponsoring program works. It is a reduction in financing for the lawyers who represented the most endangered migrant children and leave even toddlers or children aged without a state -funded representation.
The administration has also introduced a number of modern rules for adults who want to sponsor a migrant child in accordance with the instructions received by the Associated Press. In the past few weeks, the office asked sponsors to submit fingerprint, DNA test and income check to strengthen the screening procedures.
This could be a hurdle for many sponsors who may not have any income or could be undocumented, said Flowers. Children cannot leave federal custody if they are admitted to a sponsor.
“You have introduced a trifecta of guidelines that essentially make it impossible for you to leave the federal detention,” said Flowers.
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Beatrice Duppuy in New York contributed.
