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Central American men separated from their children, who entered America illegally, and were placed in a detention facility outside Houston are being told they can reunite with their kids at the airport if they sign a voluntary deportation order now, according to one migrant at the facility and two immigration attorneys who have spoken to detainees there.

 

A Honduran man who spoke to The Texas Tribune Saturday estimated that 20 to 25 men who have been separated from their children are being housed at the IAH Polk County Secure Adult Detention Center, a privately-operated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility for men located 75 miles outside Houston. He said the majority of those detainees had received the same offer of reunification in exchange for voluntary deportation, according to the Tribune.

 

These developments come as President Donald Trump’s recent proposal to immediately send undocumented migrants back over the border drew immediate criticism from legal analysts and immigrant rights advocates who said it would violate the U.S. Constitution’s due process provision, which applies to citizens and non-citizens alike.

 

In a series of tweets on Sunday, Trump said that “We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came.”

 

The president of the free world, who has any number of platforms at his behest but chooses to use a social media platform to announce major policy positions in tweets that are often provocative, said that the country known for the Statue of Liberty and being a shining city on a hill “cannot accept all of the people trying to break into our Country. Strong Borders, No Crime!”

 

It was unclear if Trump was advocating an expansion of the provision that allows expedited removals of illegal immigrants at or near the U.S. border, a policy his administration has embraced since he took office. Nor did Trump differentiate between illegal immigrants and people who entered the United States to seek asylum protection, however no policies are being changed for those who legally seek asylum.

 

“The president of the United States has just forcefully proposed the end of political asylum and no due process for migrants,” Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, wrote on Twitter.

 

Thousands of migrants impacted by the zero tolerance directive announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April must adhere to federal prosecutors along the U.S.-Mexico border who are ordered to prosecute nearly all allegations of unauthorized border crossings. The policy inundated already-backlogged federal courts.

 

An NBC correspondent tweeted Sunday morning that a Homeland Security official said “separated parents were quickly given the option to sign paperwork leading to deportation. Many chose to do so.”

 

 

 

 

 

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