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US rituals and Border Protection (CBP) quietly withdrew a number of internal policies that were designed to protect some of the weak people in its custody – including pregnant women, children, elders and serious treatment conditions.
Decide, Described in a memo On May 7 and signed by Acting Commissioner Pete Floors, in the last three years, the four biden-era policies were eliminated. These principles were intended to add up to the CBP’s chronic failures, who are most at risk for adequate care-which have been proven to be fatal in some cases.
May 5 was distributed internally for the top agency leadership of the Memoi but not publicly announced.
CBP Memo – Excluding inheritance principles of care and custody – the principles that were “obsolete” and “distracted” with the priorities of the agency’s current application have justified Rollback.
Together, now the withdrawal policies have set the value for more treatment – for example, access to water and food for pregnant people, ensure privacy for breastfeeding mothers, and the diapers and unexpected formula should be stocked on holding facilities. They instructed agents to process more risky people to restrict the custody of time to process as soon as possible.
Sarah Mehta, deputy director of the ACLU equality division, said, “It is horrible and it is an expansion of the culture of cruelty only one of the administration.” Withdrawing the principles, he said, “This administration is a fierce statement about the way this administration thinks and cares about the people of young children.”
CBP does not respond to Ward’s request to make an instant comment.
One of the world’s largest law enforcement agencies, CBP is basically responsible for catching and detaining people crossing the US border without approval. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while overseeing long -term detention and deportation activities, CBP operates in the early stages of custody, when immigrants are held in short -term facilities and are processed repeatedly criticized for weak treatment and additional crowding.
In January Senate Judiciary Committee The CBP has issued a heinous report on the manifestation of unemployment in medical operations. The investigation reveals the prolonged degradation, inappropriate use of medical record systems, and obscure or non -existent directions for the treatment of infants, pregnant people and others needing complex treatment.
The report was requested by the death of an 8 -year -old Anadith Danai Reyes Elverez, Who died in a CBP facility of Harlynzen in Texas in May 2023. The Panamanian girl, who had a familiar history of heart problems and Sequel Cell Anemia, was reported to have applied for help with her mother. Both were ignored. He died in custody, spent at his final time on an advantage whose staff was incomplete to provide critical care – and seemingly unwilling.
“In a letter from the Trump administration last week, I raised serious concerns about human behavior with the transparency, accountability and detained persons, especially in the light of prisoner abuse and insufficient treatment care,” said Dickbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wardin, Warder. “Instead of taking the course-repayment, the Trump administration withdraws several internal policies to protect some of the weak people in CBP custody-including pregnant women, children, elders and serious treatment conditions. It is unacceptable. We are a country of values, and these values ​​should be presented in our government’s custody.”
In order to define the immigration strategies of the Trump administration, the principles have arrived, from the attempt to withdraw its status 500,000 migrants Living legally in the US from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela PurifyThe In January, one day after the opening of President Donald Trump, the Department of Homeland Security The opposite of the biden-era policy It has banned ICE and CBP officers to arrest people in “protected areas” including schools, worship places and hospitals.
As the number of people in Ice Detention has emerged – in April, about 47,928 transactions recorded access to the Record Clearinghouse – the approval of the southern US border has decreased sharply, DecadeThe
CBP says that its staff will continue to follow broad values ​​under it National Value (TEDS) related to transportation, escort, detention and searchAnd be bound to the Flores Agreement, for which children should be given safe and sanitary quarters. Trump administration Has been argued before The original settlement does not require that children will be allowed to sleep or wash themselves with soap.