In some of those cases, parents gave away rights to be reunited with their kids. 23 with the Department of Homeland Security alleges that immigration authorities coerced dozens of parents separated from their children at the border to sign documents they didn't understand. A complaint expected to be filed Thursday, Aug. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigrants walk into a building at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. “According to program directors and mental health clinicians, separated children exhibited more fear, feelings of abandonment, and post-traumatic stress than did children who were not separated,” according to the report, which reviewed the mental health needs of children in HHS custody.įILE - In this Aug. The policy, which ended last June, resulted in the separation of thousands of families. The report provides yet another snapshot of how the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the US-Mexico border affected children – this time, from some of the staff tasked with caring for them.
We’re the enemy,” a program director says in the report, noting that separated children couldn’t tell the difference between facility staff and immigration agents. “Every single separated kid has been terrified. Migrant children who were separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy last year experienced “heightened feelings of anxiety and loss,” caregivers from US government shelters told the Health and Human Services inspector general.Ī report released Wednesday includes accounts of facility staff detailing the inconsolable crying of children when they were separated, the kids’ confusion and belief they had been abandoned by their parents.Īs a result of the policy and longer stays in government custody, facility staff faced challenges in meeting the mental health needs of children, many of whom had already experienced significant trauma before arriving to the United States.
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