The American immigration services will have to release more than a hundred migrant children detained in three detention centers to prevent them from getting the coronavirus, after a Los Angeles court decision.
These family centers “are on fire, and the time is no longer for half measures,” wrote district court judge Dolly Gee in her decision released on Friday.
The 124 children detained in these centers must therefore either be returned to their parents or placed in foster families with the parents’ approval by July 17, she ordered. Two of the three centers have confirmed cases of the virus, and could become major sources of contamination.
President Donald Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy on illegal immigration launched in 2018 has seen thousands of children separated from their parents at the border, a practice believed to deter potential migrants before the government takes action. reverse.
Furthermore, last week, the United States Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s decision to cut a program protecting the 700,000 or so illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.
Currently, there are more than 2,500 cases of Covid-19 in all immigration detention centers, the CNN television station said on Friday.
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