| Trump Is Using the Pandemic to Flout Immigration Laws |
| Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=54325"><span class="small">Lucas Guttentag and Stefano M. Bertozzi, The New York Times</span></a> |
| Tuesday, 12 May 2020 12:13 |
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Excerpt: "For more than a month, under the guise of fighting the coronavirus, the Trump administration has used the nation's public health laws as a pretext for summarily deporting refugees and children at the border."
Trump Is Using the Pandemic to Flout Immigration Laws12 May 20
This new border policy runs roughshod over legal rights, distracts from meaningful measures to prevent spread of the coronavirus and undermines confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the nation’s top health protection agency, which delivered the directive that imposes these deportations. The administration has weaponized an arcane provision of a quarantine law first enacted in 1893 and revised in 1944 to order the blanket deportation of asylum-seekers and unaccompanied minors at the Mexican border without any testing or finding of disease or contagion. Legal rights to hearings, appeals, asylum screening and the child-specific procedures are all ignored. |
or more than a month, under the guise of fighting the coronavirus, the Trump administration has used the nation’s public health laws as a pretext for summarily deporting refugees and children at the border.