Customs and the protection of American border (CBP) discreetly canceled several internal policies designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in their care, including pregnant women, infants, the elderly and people with serious medical conditions.
The decision, described in a memo Dated May 5 and signed by the acting commissioner, Pete Flores, eliminates four Biden era policies adopted in the past three years. These policies were intended to fight against long -standing failures of CBP to provide adequate care to the prisoners who are most at risk – craftsmen who, in some cases, be fatal.
The memo of May 5 was distributed internally to the management of the Higher Agency but was not announced publicly.
The CBP justified the withdrawal by declaring in the termination of the memory note of inherited policies linked to care and guard – that policies were “obsolete” and “ill -aligned” with the current priorities of the current application of the agency.
Together, the now resolved policies have established standards for prisoners with increased medical needs – required, for example, access to water and food for pregnant people, guaranteeing privacy for breastfeeding mothers, and by obliging strata and unpired formulas must be supplied in detention facilities. They also asked agents to treat individuals at risk as quickly as possible to limit the time of detention.
“It is appalling and it is just an extension of the culture of cruelty that the administration tries to perpetrate,” explains Sarah Mehta, deputy director of government affairs for the ACLU equality division. Cancel the policies, she says, “is an overwhelming statement on how this administration thinks and cares about people with young children.”
CBP did not immediately respond to the request for wired comments.
One of the world's largest law enforcement organizations, the CBP is mainly responsible for the apprehension and detention of people who cross the American border without authorization. While the application of the immigration and customs forces (ICE) supervises the longer -term detention and expulsion procedures, the CBP manages the first stages of guard, when migrants are held and treated in short -term establishments which have repeatedly aroused medical medical criticism and too many overcrowding
In January the Senate Judicial Committee has published an overwhelming report revealing dysfunction in CBP medical operations. The survey revealed that the chronic sub-personnel, improper use of medical record systems and vague or non-existent advice for the processing of children, pregnant persons and others with complex medical needs.
The report was caused by the death of 8 years Anitith Danay Reyes Álvarez, Died in May 2023 in a CBP installation in Harlingen, Texas. The Panamanian daughter, who had a story known to heart problems and falciform anemia, would have pleaded for help with her mother. Both were ignored. She died in police custody, her last hours spent in an establishment whose staff was not equipped – and apparently little disposed – to provide intensive care.
“Last week, in letters to the Trump administration, I raised serious concerns about the transparency, responsibility and human treatment of detained individuals, in particular in light of repeated reports of inadequate detainees and medical care,” said Wired Wired, American senator Dick Durbin, president of the Senate court. “Instead of taking measures for correct courses, the Trump administration has canceled several internal policies aimed at protecting some of the most vulnerable people in CBP care – including pregnant women, children, the elderly and those with serious medical conditions. This is unacceptable. We are a nation of values, and these values should be represented in the care of vulnerable people in the care of our government. ”.
Politics inversions have defined immigration tactics from the Trump administration of the attempt to revoke the status of 500,000 immigrants Of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela legally live in the United States Purge of student visas. In January, one day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the Ministry of Internal Security reversed a policy of the Biden era This has prohibited ice and CBP officers from stopping people in “protected areas”, including schools, places of worship and hospitals.
As the number of people detained in ice detention has climbed – reducing approximately 47,928 fall to unprecedented levels in decades.
CBP says that its staff will continue to follow the wider standards under the National standards on transport, escort, detention and research (TEDS)And remain linked by the Flores agreement, which requires children to be granted safe and health neighborhoods. Trump administration previously supported Whether the original regulations do not require children to be authorized to sleep or wash with soap.
