The Federal Government offers unaccompanied children of migrants of 14 and older $ 2500 in order to leave the United States of their own free will or “self-sufficiency” back to its countries, according to a note sent by the Ministry of Health and Social Services and received by NBC News.
The notice was sent on Friday afternoon suppliers of legal services throughout the country who represent inconsistent children -worldwide. Acceptable children are those who of countries except Mexico, and who are currently in custody in the management of refugee resettlement (Orr), which is part of the HHS.
“This benefit is intended to support reintegration efforts after sorties,” the notification says.
The notification also states that the Ministry of Internal Security, which issues scholarships, He has already identified minor children in custody Orr, who stated that they want to submit or who would give “for a voluntary departure.”
Health and social services sent all issues to the Department of Internal Security.
The efforts to seduce minors to selflessness became rumors on social networks on Thursday evening among immigrant lawyers who said that immigration and customs support indicated the operation “Fanty Friday”.
ICE said that the name was invented by the “ridiculous term”, but admitted that the agency offers money to a minor inconsistent for children for an independent deport.
Emily Covington, assistant director of the ICE public relations department, said in her statement that the proposal from the federal government is a “strictly voluntary option to return home to their families.”
Covington said that this option gives uncontrolled children “choice and allows them to make a reasonable decision about their future. Any payment in support of the return home will be provided after the judge for immigration provides a request, and a person will arrive in the country of their origin. “
This step alarmed the defenders of immigration throughout the country.
Wendy Young and children in need of defense said in her statement: “illegal children should never be removed from the United States without a complete and fair process to determine whether they have the right to protect the United States.”
“This operation undermines laws that guarantee that the process for minor children, and it contradicts the long -standing commitment of our country to protect the most vulnerable among us – children – from violence, trafficking in people, cruel treatment, persecution and other serious dangers,” she continued.
Roxanne Cortes Mills, managing the Center for the Promotion of Immigrants and Refugees in Nebraska, said that regardless of this proposal, rumors that he sowed fear among immigrant communities. She said that the rural school district in the state called her office, asking: “Do we have to tell parents to get their children out of school?” She added: “This is the first time in nine years of work with the unaccompanied by children that I hear this type of proposal.”
In Houston, Dalia Castillo-Granados, director of the Immigration Immigration Immigration Academy, said that she offers money to children, “causes many problems, taking into account the vulnerable position in which these children are located.”
The proposal of the Trump administration appears against the backdrop of a general desire to force immigrants of unregistered in order to independently be documented, offering adults and their families $ 1000 to leave the country as part of a separate program. On weekends, the administration also tried deport several minor children back to his home country Guatemala, but was temporarily blocked from this After the trial as a DHS, she loaded the children to aircraft.
“We see a lot of models and get many reports that ICE uses a lot of pressure tactics to encourage people to take deportation. It is bad enough to use this tactics for adults to encourage them to independently deport, but this is a completely new level to try to use it with children, ”says Vanessa Dojaquez-Torres, Practice and Policy Counsel with American lawyers.
More than 300,000 children themselves entered the United States during the Biden administration, and then were exempted from parents, relatives or sponsors who are not a family throughout the country.
As of August, the federal government had 2,011 disguised minor children under his care, according to HHS siteField
As a rule, children who cross the border without a legal parent or guardian are temporarily transferred to guardianship until they can be compared with the sponsor in the United States. Children who immigrate to the United States without parents have special protection in accordance with the Law on the re -authorization of victims of victims, unless they are made of Mexico or Canada.
The Trump administration sought to disrupt these special means of protection and recently tried to deport the Guatemal children who were still in the process of searching for asylum.
Although they have special protection to guarantee that they are checked for possible people's trafficking, minor children who illegally crossed the border were previously deported, including under democratic administrations. But the stimulation of children to go through financial plans has never been done before.
In accordance with the Biden administration, minor minors crossing the border climbed the record numbers in 2021, which led to a lag in the field of healthcare and social services, since the agency tried to place them with the corresponding sponsors. The Trump administration said that many of these children were placed in an unsafe environment where they could be abused or operated for labor.
