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Kids in exchange for deportation: Detained migrants say they were told they
could get kids back on way out of U.S.
In a detention center near Houston, an asylum seeker from Honduras said he
agreed to sign a voluntary removal order from the U.S. after federal
officials promised to reunite him with his 6-year-old daughter.
BY JAY ROOT AND SHANNON NAJMABADI JUNE 24, 2018 10 HOURS AGO
HOUSTON — Central American men separated from their children and held in a
detention facility outside Houston are being told they can reunite with
their kids at the airport if they agree to sign a voluntary deportation
order now, according to one migrant at the facility and two immigration
attorneys who have spoken to detainees there.
A Honduran man who spoke to The Texas Tribune Saturday estimated that 20 to
25 men who have been separated from their children are being housed at the
IAH Polk County Secure Adult Detention Center, a privately-operated U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility for men located 75 miles
outside Houston. He said the majority of those detainees had received the
same offer of reunification in exchange for voluntary deportation.
The 24-year-old detainee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and
requested the Tribune use the pseudonym Carlos because he feared retaliation
, told the Tribune that he abandoned his asylum case and agreed to sign
voluntary deportation paperwork Friday out of “desperation” to see his 6-
year-old daughter, who was separated from him after the pair illegally
crossed the border in late May. The man said two federal officials suggested
he’d be reunited with his daughter at the airport if he agreed to sign the
order, which could lead to him being repatriated to his violence-torn home
country in less than two weeks.
“I was told I would not be deported without my daughter,” said Carlos,
adding that he's now hoping to revoke the voluntary deportation order he
signed and get legal help to fight his case. “I signed it out of
desperation… but the truth is I can’t go back to Honduras; I need help.”
Carlos said he’s only spoken to his daughter once — on June 21 — since
the pair were separated three weeks ago in McAllen. He said he paid a
smuggler $7,000 for the 10-day journey from Honduras because he feared being
caught up in the violence waged by organized crime syndicates and gangs in
the country. They turned themselves in to Border Patrol officers shortly
after illegally crossing into the United States on a raft that pushed off
from the banks of the Rio Grande on the Mexico side near Reynosa, Carlos
said.
He said he wanted a better life for his only daughter and hoped U.S.
officials would grant them asylum. He was told he did not pass the first
hurdle — proving he had "credible fear" of persecution or torture in
Honduras — but volunteer attorneys have instructed him to revoke the
paperwork he signed and appeal his credible fear ruling before an
immigration judge.
Anne Chandler, Houston director of the Tahirih Justice Center, a national
organization that advocates for immigrant women and girls, said she’s heard
an almost identical account from another Central American migrant detained
at the Livingston facility, a taupe-and-blue building surrounded by two
chain link fences lined with coils of razor wire.
Carl Rusnok, an ICE spokesman, said Saturday evening that the agency "cannot
research vague allegations," but would do so if given specific details
about the migrants who made the claims.
"It is unprofessional and unfair for a media outlet to publish such
allegations without providing names, dates and locations so that these
allegations can be properly researched," Rusnok said. The Tribune declined
to give Rusnok the detainees’ identifying information.
A Homeland Security and Health and Human Services fact sheet released
Saturday said parents ordered removed from the U.S. can "request that his or
her minor child accompany them," but that "many parents have elected to be
removed without their children."
More than 2,500 migrant children have been separated from their parents
since early May, after the federal government cracked down on border-
crossers and began pressuring federal prosecutors on the southwest border to
pursue charges against anyone alleged to have entered or tried to enter the
country without authorization.
Homeland Security said Saturday that 522 unaccompanied minors have been
reunified with family members since the zero tolerance policy began, and
that they have a reunification plan for those who remain in federal custody.
But both Chandler and Cynthia Milian, a private attorney working with
Tahirih, questioned whether the offers that the immigrants have reported
receiving could be honored by the government, given the sprawling and slow-
moving nature of the nation's immigration bureaucracy.
While migrant adults are prosecuted by the Justice Department and then
detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, their children are placed
in shelters funded and overseen by the Department of Health and Human
Services. Chandler said it could take between one to two months to secure
the release of an unaccompanied migrant child.
Many immigrant parents have been placed in removal proceedings and some have
already been deported without their children.
Milian, who has spoken to Carlos, said his situation is a “parent’s worst
nightmare” and that it was highly unlikely he would be met at the airport
by his daughter. “I doubt they would put his child on a plane to get her to
where he would get deported out from, especially if she’s in Arizona,”
where Carlos was told she is being held. “I just don’t see that happening.”
IAH Secure Adult Detention Facility in South Livingston.
IAH Secure Adult Detention Facility in South Livingston. U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement website
Carlos said he worries about the conditions in the facility where his
daughter is being held, whether she’s receiving proper care for her asthma,
and how she will find her way to an aunt in Los Angeles if he is deported
back to Honduras without her.
When they spoke on Thursday, Carlos said his daughter was “very sad … and
wanted me to get her out of there.”
Carlos is one of the thousands of migrants impacted by the zero tolerance
directive announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April, which
requires federal prosecutors along the U.S.-Mexico border to prosecute
nearly all allegations of unauthorized border crossings. The policy
inundated already-backlogged federal courts; several courtrooms, including
one in McAllen where Carlos was charged in May, have held mass hearings
where dozens of migrants plead guilty to illegal entry charges at once — a
scene critics have likened to assembly-line justice.
After the new crackdown sparked bipartisan outrage, President Donald Trump
signed a hastily-written executive order Wednesday that keeps most families
together through the pendency of their cases. But there are divisions within
the Trump administration about whether it’s possible to continue pursuing
every case of illegal entry.
Despite assurances that there are reunification plans in place, confusion
and chaos reign on the ground about how families separated at the height of
the zero tolerance policy will be put back together.
An MSNBC correspondent tweeted Sunday morning that a Homeland Security
official said "separated parents were quickly given the option to sign
paperwork leading to deportation. Many chose to do so."
Bob Etnyre, a Houston-based attorney and immigration law expert, said Carlos
’ case highlights a "particularly diabolical aspect" of the family
separations — dangling reunification as an incentive to drop an asylum
claim.
Carlos said his daughter was taken away from him on the day he went to the
McAllen courthouse to plead guilty to illegal entry. He said officials at
the detention facility he knew as “la hielera,” or the “ice box,” told
him she would be taken to an aunt in California — “pure lies,” he said.
“She’s a prisoner,” he told the Tribune through a plexiglass partition in
the facility’s visitation room. “She can't talk, she cries because she's
locked up.”
“The kids aren't to blame for what's going on,” he added. “We only came
because we can't live in our country. We are looking for somewhere to live
where our children can have a better future. In our country we can't do it.”
Carlos' mother, reached by phone in Honduras, said she hasn't been able to
speak to her son or granddaughter since they were detained. She's been told
her granddaughter was ill with an upper respiratory ailment. "We've been
worrying and suffering over this," she said.
The aunt of 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid, another Central
American girl separated from her parent and currently being held in an
Arizona facility, said she can imagine the distress both Carlos and his
daughter are feeling.
Madrid garnered national attention when she was heard on audio,
surreptitiously recorded in a Customs and Border Protection facility and
provided to ProPublica, persistently asking authorities to call her aunt –
whose phone number she’d memorized. “Are you going to call my aunt so that
when I’m done eating she can pick me up?” Madrid can be heard saying, as
other Central American children weep and sob “Mami” and “Papá” in the
background.
“It’s inhumane for them to be separated,” said the aunt, who lives in
Houston and spoke to the Tribune on the condition of anonymity. “And that’
s a pain she will always have. That little creature will grow up with that
forever. It’s a psychological and emotional wound for both of them, because
people don’t come here to lose their children.”
Read related Tribune coverage
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