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2 Nov, 10 tweets, 6 min read
NEW — This is the story of 4 children expelled from the US under a COVID-19 policy that has suspended legal protections for migrant minors.

It's also a story of opposition within the CDC to authorize a border policy championed by the White House @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
The White House pressured the CDC to approve the expulsions policy, bypassing objections from experts who believed there was no public health basis to shutter US borders to migrants, asylum-seekers & children, 3 former Trump admin. officials told @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
"We were forced to do it," a former public health official said.

"Public health authority had never been used in this way. A lot of folks—myself included—felt that this was a misappropriation of that authority," another former public health official said.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
Reached for comment, the White House / DHS strongly defended the policy, saying it protects border states and CBP agents.

The White House also provided a statement from CDC Director Robert Redfield, who has signed the orders that authorize the expulsions.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
Gustavo, 12, a disabled boy, was expelled alone to Guatemala—where his father now fears for his safety.

His mother is in Ciudad Juárez waiting for her US court hearing under Pres Trump's Remain-in-Mexico policy. @L_Toczylowski has been helping the family.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
Gabriela, 13, was expelled to El Salvador after fleeing the gang threats that prompted her mother to trek north years earlier.

Her mother, who was granted US refuge in 2018, is in NY. @TXCivilRights filed a lawsuit to try to bring Gabriela back to the US.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
The US expelled Salvadoran sisters Noeli, 15, and Valeria, 12, to Mexico—where they were taken into custody.

They traveled a 2nd time to the US border and again faced expulsion. But with the help of @theYoungCenter, the girls are now with mom in Maryland.
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
This policy has led to the expulsions of thousands of migrant kids who were not afforded safeguards Congress created for them.

There's been some excellent reporting on this policy—including from the great @lomikriel, who explained how unprecedented it is:
propublica.org/article/her-ra…
Last week, @itscaitlinhd reported on an internal Border Patrol email that raised alarms about US officials expelling Central American children to Mexico, in violation of a diplomatic agreement:
nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/…
And of course, @MHackman, @JHDearen and @garanceburke first reported the White House's efforts to overrule CDC officials who opposed authorizing the expulsions of migrants:

apnews.com/article/virus-…

wsj.com/articles/cdc-o…

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15 Nov
NEW — Another federal court has found that Pres. Trump's top DHS official Chad Wolf was unlawfully appointed, and that he did not have the authority to restrict DACA.

1.1 million immigrant teens and young adults may be eligible to request DACA. @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/chad-wolf…
Judge Nicholas Garaufis is not the only federal judge to question the legality of Wolf's appointment — which @USGAO also found to be invalid.

Wolf signed a memo in July that shortened the duration of protections for DACA recipients and closed the program to new applicants.
While Garaufis said Wolf did not have the authority to make these restrictions, he did not explicitly order DHS to accept initial DACA petitions. Instead, he ordered parties to ask for relief.

@KarenTumlin, a lawyer representing DACA recipients, said she intends to do just that.
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14 Nov
A federal judge in NY found that DHS head Chad Wolf "was not lawfully serving" as acting sec. when he limited DACA protections & closed the program to new applicants.

The judge also certified a class of immigrants who are or could be eligible for DACA under its 2012 guidelines. Image
Judge Nicholas Garaufis said Wolf did not have the authority to issue the July memo restricting DACA.

He directed parties to "advise of any forthcoming motions for relief in light of the court's decision."

Lawyers for DACA recipients are working on it:
There are undocumented immigrant teens and young adults across the US who are eligible for DACA on paper and meet the 2012 requirements, but have been locked out of the program, which offers protections from deportation.

Here are some of their stories:
cbsnews.com/news/daca-some…
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11 Nov
NEW — President-elect Biden is set to start reversing Pres. Trump's immigration legacy.

The Biden team is planning to fully restore DACA, enact a 100-day freeze on deportations, limit ICE arrests, overturn green card restrictions and much more. @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/biden-imm…
Mr. Biden will look to implement the 100-day deportations moratorium while his administration issues guidance narrowing who can be arrested and deported by ICE.

A source familiar with Mr. Biden's plans said new guidance would be designed to curb so-called "collateral arrests.”
Mr. Biden intends to end the Remain-in-Mexico border policy. But it remains unclear whether asylum-seekers will be allowed in.

A source familiar with Mr. Biden’s plans said the incoming admin. will void deals that allow the US to re-route asylum-seekers to Central America.
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27 Oct
DHS No. 2 Ken Cuccinelli issued an official statement today denouncing U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee as an "activist" and accusing her of "preparing to order the separation" of migrant families in ICE detention.

I want to highlight a few points in a brief thread. 1/
Lawyers for detained migrant minors and the Justice Department filed a draft of a protocol earlier this month explaining that parents in ICE family detention can allow their children to be released to sponsors or continue to be in detention, together but indefinitely. 2/
Gee, who has ordered the government to comply with its binding obligation under the Flores settlement to seek the prompt release of migrant minors from detention, has yet to approve the protocol.

She ordered all parties yesterday to continue working to finalize the protocol. 3/
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27 Oct
ICE agents are expanding "expedited removals" — deportations without court hearings — across the US.

This is the notice ICE will be providing immigrants placed in these proceedings. They will have to prove they have been continuously residing in the US prior to July 23, 2019.
ICE agents have been receiving training to enforce the new rules—which expand expedited removal beyond the previous 100-miles-from-the-border limit.

Below are training slides detailing how ICE expects to enforce the policy & how immigrants can contest their summary deportation:
Immigrants ICE seeks to summarily deport under this policy will have 72 hours to show—through financial, employment, school and personal documents—that they have been living in the US for 2 + years.

Mores training slides below, including on asylum screenings and release options.
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21 Oct
NEW — The Trump admin. is making more undocumented immigrants eligible to be quickly deported without a court hearing, instructing ICE agents to oversee the nation-wide expansion of a policy that had long been limited to border areas. @CBSNews.
cbsnews.com/news/ice-depor…
The expansion of "expedited removals" comes as DHS has been touting a series of pre-election ICE operations in cities across the US, from California to New York, that have adopted "sanctuary" policies that limit local law enforcement cooperation with federal deportation agents.
Previously, expedited removals could only be used within 100 miles of US land borders.

ICE agents can now place undocumented immigrants arrested anywhere in the US in expedited removals if they fail to demonstrate they have lived in the country for 2 years or longer.
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