New ICE Enforcement Strategy: Targeting Parents for Human Trafficking
News reports (and here) discuss the Trump administration’s new efforts to arrest parents and relatives it suspects of paying to have children smuggled to the United States, sparking criticism that officials are interrogating vulnerable migrant children with the intent of separating families.
Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement say the new “surge initiative,” which involves identifying and arresting parents, relatives and others who have paid criminal organizations to bring children into the country, is a humanitarian effort to target human smugglers.
KJ
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