Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed more than 900 people to Venezuela between 20. “Rather than make things easier for fleeing Venezuelans, the Trump administration has tightened asylum standards,” according to Miami New Times reporter Manuel Madrid, who writes that many Venezuelans consider being deported to Venezuela to be a death sentence.ĭespite pleas from religious leaders, the administration has not designated Venezuelans for Temporary Protected Status and has continued to deport people back to Venezuela. immigration court facing removal, an increase of 277%, from 6,492 in September 2018, reports the Syracuse University Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Immigrant rights groups and the public alike began expressing their dismay at the policy after it became publicized in 2018, with backlash growing so intense that the then-president signed an executive order ending the policy.As of December 2019, 24,451 Venezuelans were in U.S. The DHS secretary went on to reveal that the task force is in the process of reunifying nearly 200 children with their parents, as well as reach out to formerly separated families to notify them of available mental health resources.Īs part of its “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, the Trump administration began separating children and parents caught crossing the US border illegally in 2017 in an effort to deter migration. “While the Department of Homeland Security and the Task Force take great pride in this accomplishment, we also know that this important work isn’t finished," Mayorkas, who is tasked with reuniting the more than 1,000 children who remain separated from their parents as a result of the Trump administration's 2017 "zero tolerance" policy, said in a statement Friday.ĬLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER “Those are 500 individual children that are now with their parents.”
Obviously, the first step for these families is that physical reunification and going through that process,” Michelle Brane, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force, told the Hill. “Five hundred is a really important milestone. The news came through a statement released Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who celebrated the family reunifications as a "significant milestone that reflects the tireless dedication of the many public servants." Mayorkas has led the family reunification effort, a major tenet of an otherwise vague set of immigration policies by the Biden administration, for nearly two years now.īIDEN REMAINS IMPERVIOUS TO POLITICAL PRESSURE ON SOUTHERN BORDER The Biden administration has reunified more than 500 migrant families separated at the southern border under former President Donald Trump, it revealed.
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