Family Separation Under Zero Tolerance
Fatme, Undergraduate Student (UM-Dearborn) Back in 2018, Trump’s administration implemented the “Zero Tolerance policy.” It was implemented in order to charge parents with illegal entry to the United States and lock them up. But parents who are locked up cannot take their children in with them, that lead to children being separated from their parents and sent to shelters across the country. If children were locked up with their parents, officers would take the children away without informing their parents and letting them know where their children went. This occurred when Trump first arrived into office and it was happening quietly, no one knew of this policy. Immigration attorneys began to see agents separating children from their parents and began to question what was going on. ACLU heard about what was going on and filed a lawsuit. After the lawsuit was filed, in 2018 Trump’s administration came out with the Zero Tolerance, making it official that if families come in illegally children will be separated from their parents at the border. Protests and riot broke out all across the country, stories of families being separated and put into cells broke out as well. Protesters marching and wanting the separation and horrible treatment of those in cells to end. President Trump came out six weeks later stating that his administration wants to end the separation of families and what is occurring is wrong. He stated the pictures he had seen are horrifying and inhumane and blamed President Obama for the separation of families. Yet, this type of family separation of children from their parents had never happened up until Trumps administration. It is inhumane to do such a thing to families, children growing up without their parents and sent to shelters is devastating. Imagine how lonely and confused these children feel being apart from their parents without an explanation. Trumps administration should have taken full responsibility and felt ashamed for what they have done. Families must reunite, but it is not going to be easy to do so since children were sent to shelters across the country and the government failed to properly keep track of them. Thankfully, on February 2nd President Biden signed an executive order to launch a task force to reunite families that were separated at the border under Trump’s administration. Biden stated that he is not making new laws, he eliminating bad policy. The task force first will begin by working to identify all the children that were separated from their parents at the border. As they reunite families they will reunify them by granting them parole which could allow non-citizens to enter or remain in the United States. The task force will also offer trauma and mental health resources. As part of this executive order the task force will provide reports and recommendations on steps to prevent family separation policy from happening ever again. Not only will this executive order reunite families, but it will also give those families a better opportunity at a new life.
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