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US -inch and The border protection (CBP) has lifted several internal guidelines in a quiet manner that were protected in their care to protect some of the most endangered people – including pregnant women, infants, older people and people with serious illnesses.
The decision, in a memo From May 5 and signed by the incumbent Commissioner Pete Flores, has been eliminated four guidelines from the bid era in the past three years. These guidelines should assume the long-term failures of CBP to adequately supply prisoners who are most at risk-for some cases that have proven to be fatal in some cases.
The memo on May 5 was distributed internally to the top management of the agency, but was not announced publicly.
CBP justified the rollback by specifying the resignation of Legacy guidelines in connection with care and custody in the memo -that the guidelines were “outdated” and “wrongly aligned” with the current enforcement priorities of the agency.
Together, the now canceled guidelines stated standards for prisoners with increased medical needs – for example, access to water and food for pregnant people, the guarantee of privacy for breastfeeding mothers and the prerequisite of diapers and not expired formula in holding facilities. They also indicated agents to process endangered people as soon as possible to limit the time in custody.
“It is horrific and it is only an expansion of the culture of cruelty that the administration tries to commit,” says Sarah Mehta, deputy director of government matters for the equality department of the ACLU. She says the guidelines and says “is a damn explanation of how this government thinks people with young children and takes care of people.”
CBP did not immediately answer a comment on the request from WIRED.
CBP, one of the world’s largest law enforcement agencies, is primarily responsible for capturing and imprisoning people who exceed, capture, capture the US limit without permission. While the immigration and customs
In January the Justice Committee of the Senate issued a damn report in which a functional disorder was unveiled at the medical operations of CBP. The examination resulted in chronic below, improper use of medical recording systems and vague or non -existent instructions for the treatment of children, pregnant people and others with complex medical needs.
The report was arranged by the death of the 8-year-old Anadith danay Reyes Álvarez, who died in May 2023 in a CBP facility in Harlingen, Texas. The Panamaic girl, who had a well -known history of heart problems and sickle cell anemia, reported to help together with her mother. Both were ignored. She died in custody, spent her last hours in a facility whose employees were a little aligned – and apparently not ready – to ensure critical care.
“Only last week in letters to the Trump administration, I expressed serious concerns about transparency, accountability and human treatment of detained persons, in particular in view of repeated reports on the abuse of prisoners and the insufficient medical care,” said the US Senator Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Justice Committee. “Instead of taking measures to take the course correction, the Trump administration raised several internal guidelines to protect some of the most endangered persons in CBP-consorted women, children, children, older people and people with serious medical conditions. We are a nation of values, and these values should be concerned about vulnerable people in our government in custody The government’s custody. “
Political reversations define the immigration tea of the Trump government from attempts to revoke the status of 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, who legally live in the United States Cleaning of student visa. In January, one day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security If a guideline between biden era returned The prohibition of ICE and CBP officials, people in “protected areas”, including schools, cult sites and hospitals.
When the number of people held in the ICE rose around 47,928 in April, according to the transaction records, access to Clearinghouse – on the southern US border, has dropped sharply. From falling on stages that have not been seen for decades.
CBP says that his staff will continue to follow the wider standards according to which National Standards for Transport, Eskorte, Hegt and Search (Teds)And remain bound by the Flores Agreement, according to which children have to receive safe and hygienic quarters. The Trump administration has argued beforehand That the original settlement does not require children to sleep or wash themselves with soap.
