U.S. Immigration Officials Can Now Deport Hosts of Migrant Children (Pew Trusts)
Pew Trusts, June 8, 2018
U.S. Immigration Officials Can Now Deport Hosts of Migrant Children
“A new federal policy will allow federal agents to investigate, and possibly arrest and deport, families who step up to host children found at the border. It’s the latest in a series of enforcement actions by the Trump administration intended to discourage a new surge in unauthorized immigrants….The New York City Bar Association, in a comment posted on the new policy, said that kind of abuse could become more common if host families are screened by federal immigration enforcement officials. ‘This may lead family members to put their trust in third parties with lawful immigration status whose true motivation is to exploit the children,’ read the comment written by Victoria Neilson, chairwoman of the association’s immigration committee.”
