NEW: Two controversial border programs were rife with issues, including families forced to remain in custody longer than appropriate, girls stuck in the same detention space w/ unrelated men, & toilets that had limited privacy, per leaked draft IG report.
buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
“We found that CBP held many families together in large open cells in the El Paso [Central Processing Center] with no assurance of privacy or separation of juveniles from unrelated adults,” the report states. In one cell, two 14-year-old girls were held with nine unrelated men.
“Toilet stalls in the living area with waist-high partitions offered little privacy” and there was no “private space for nursing” despite there being mothers with infants.
"CBP officials said they had padded concrete posts within the detention cells to protect children who were running around."
There was no evidence that the agency had plans to roll out the policy after evaluating its effectiveness and, what’s more, there were no defined goals given by CBP to border officials to evaluate its success in the first place.
CBP staff had issues providing privacy for migrants to speak alone to legal consultants.
USCIS officials told the inspectors that many immigrants did not understand what legal representation meant and
CBP officials struggled to provide them access to phones.
USCIS officials told the inspectors that many immigrants did not understand what legal representation meant and
CBP officials struggled to provide them access to phones.
In the end, only a small percentage of each of these groups was able to pass their initial asylum screening interview: 19%for PACR, and 29% for HARP.
A lot of these issues were flagged to me by attorneys on the border last year.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
