US Customs and Protection of borders (CBP) quietly canceled several internal policies, which were designed to protect some of the most sensitive people in his care – including pregnant women, infants, the elderly and people with earnest diseases.
Decision, outlined in the note Dated 5 May and signed by the compulsory Commissioner Pete Flores, eliminates four policies from the time of Biden introduced in the last three years. These rules were aimed at solving long-term CBP failure in providing adequate detained care, who are most at risk-in some cases, which in some cases proved to be fatal.
The note of May 5 was disseminated internally into the highest management of the agency, but was not publicly announced.
CBP justified the withdrawal, providing in the note of the dismissal of older policies related to care and care – that the policy was “outdated” and “disappointed” with the current priorities of the agency’s execution.
Together, the rules set the standards of detainees with increased medical needs – for example, access to water and food for pregnant people, ensuring the privacy of breastfeeding mothers and to order diapers and an unexpected formula in the field of holding. They also instructed agents to process endangered people as soon as possible to limit time in custody.
“This is terrifying and it is only an extension of the culture of cruelty, which the administration is trying to commit,” says Sarah Mehta, deputy director of government matters at the ACLU Equality Department. By cutting off politics, he says: “He is a condemning statement about how this administration of thoughts and cares for people with young children.”
CBP did not immediately answer Wired’s request for comment.
One of the world’s largest law enforcement agencies, CBP, is primarily responsible for stopping and stopping people who cross the US border without authorization. While the immigration and enforcement of duties (ICE) supervise long -term detention and deportation, CBP supports the earliest stages of care, when migrants are stored and processed in brief -term facilities that have repeatedly criticized criticism for destitute medical care and overflow
In January Senate Judiciary issued a condemned report revealing dysfunction in CBP medical surgery. The study revealed a chronic understatement, improper operate of medical documentation systems and unclear or non -existent tips for the treatment of children, pregnant and others with convoluted medical needs.
The report was caused by the death of an 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes álvarez, who died in May 2023 at the CBP plant in Harlingen, Texas. A Panama girl, who had a known history of heart problems and sickle anemia, apparently begged for aid with her mother. Both were ignored. She died in custody, and her last hours spent in the facility, whose staff were not equipped – and seemingly reluctant – to ensure critical care.
“Last week, in letters to Trump’s administration, I raised serious concerns about transparency, responsibility and humanitarian treatment of detained persons, especially in the light of repetitive reports of poor treatment detained and inadequate medical care,” says US senator Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate court committee. “Instead of taking actions to improve the course, the Trump administration repealed several internal policies aimed at protecting some of the most sensitive people in CBP custody, in these pregnant women, children, the elderly and people with serious diseases. This is unacceptable. We are unacceptable. We are unacceptable. We are a nation of values, and these values should be represented in the care of the population in prone to embed power.”
The reversal of the policy determined the immigration tactics of the Trump administration, against attempts to cancel the status 500,000 immigrants from Kuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela live legally in the USA Cleansing student visas. In January, the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the Internal Security Department He turned the policy from the time of Biden This was prohibited by ICE and CBP officers, arresting people in “protected areas”, including schools, worship and hospitals.
Because the number of people detained in ice cream increased – protecting about 47,928 in April, in accordance with the transactional acts of access to Cleeringhouse – returned to the southern border of the USA rapidly fell, Falling on levels not observed for decades.
CBP says that his staff will continue to comply with wider standards under National standards for transport, escorts, stops and search (TEDS)and remain bound by the Flores contract, which requires children to receive safe and sound and sanitary amounts. Trump administration he was arguing earlier That the original settlement does not require that children can sleep or wash with soap.