WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 03rd October, 2018) Thee recent report on the Trump administration's immigrant family separation policy shows its failure to consider and comprehend the effects it would have, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Deputy Director of the Immigrants' Rights Project Lee Gelernt said in a press release.
"This report shows not just the cruelty of the Trump administration's actions, but also its ineptitude and historic failure of foresight in comprehending the devastating effects and fallout from this policy," Gelernt said in the release on Tuesday.
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General disclosed in a report that some 860 illegal immigrant children were detained in temporary holding cells longer than the 72-hour limit permitted by US courts.
One immigrant minor was detained in holding cells - lacking beds and showers - for 12 days while another was in a holding cell for 25 days, the report said.
The Office of the Inspector General also found a poorly-coordinated interagency process that provided little or no information to migrant parents about the location of their children, the report added.
Gelernt said in the release that thousands of immigrant children are living with trauma because of the US government's "zero-tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigrants, while some immigrant parents may never see their children again.
The separations of migrant minors from parents apprehended when crossing the US border illegally resulted from the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy, which ended on June 20. As a result of the policy, about 2,600 immigrant children were separated from their parents this spring.
