{"id":17455,"date":"2018-07-26T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/?p=17455"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:13:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T15:13:40","slug":"nilc-demands-information-about-treatment-of-jailed-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/2018\/07\/26\/nilc-demands-information-about-treatment-of-jailed-children\/","title":{"rendered":"NILC Demands Information from the Government about Treatment of Jailed Children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>July 26, 2018<\/p>\n

CONTACT<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Hayley Burgess, media@nilc.org<\/a>, (202) 805-0375
\nLindsay Toczylowski, Lindsay@ImmDef.org<\/a>, (213) 634-7181<\/p>\n

National Immigration Law Center Demands Information from the Government about Treatment of Jailed Children<\/strong><\/h1>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 The National Immigration Law Center today filed a Freedom of Immigration Act (FOIA) request<\/a> on behalf of Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) to demand that the government shed light on whether its treatment of jailed immigrant children and their parents accords with U.S. law. This move comes after ImmDef was repeatedly cut off from its clients, notwithstanding their due process rights. In several cases, Imm Def has learned that its clients were sent to be reunited in family jails, potentially subjecting these children to prolonged and unnecessary incarceration.<\/p>\n

The FOIA request seeks information about the government\u2019s policies, practices, and contracts governing \u201cStage II\u201d of the government\u2019s family reunification efforts. This includes policies governing how reunited families\u2019 immigration cases are treated, and whether and how these families are allowed to pursue alternatives to incarceration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump administration has done nothing but obfuscate and mislead the American public throughout this whole manufactured crisis, and we \u2014 along with these children \u2014 deserve the truth,\u201d said Josh Rosenthal, a staff attorney with the National Immigration Law Center. \u201cAll of us, regardless of where we were born or how old we are, have the right to be treated fairly under the law. ImmDef\u2019s experience with this administration makes it clear that these children\u2019s rights are not being protected \u2014 and we need to know why.\u201d<\/p>\n

The groups have asked for the government to provide information in an expedited way, citing the growing urgency of the situation these children face.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are representing parents and children impacted by these policies, but instead of a government that protects families, our clients have encountered a government that puts its draconian agenda over their well-being,\u201d said Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. \u201cThe government\u2019s practices of moving our clients without notice and stopping all communication between client and attorney would be an abhorrent miscarriage of justice in any instance. The fact that the government is showing such callous disregard for its own laws and policies regarding the treatment of children and families seeking reunification is even more appalling.\u201d<\/p>\n

This FOIA request was filed shortly after the deadline a U.S. district court in San Diego had set for the federal government to reunite families it had forcibly separated. Current estimates indicate that only 34 percent of families have been reunited, and several hundred parents have been deported without their children.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row el_class=”holder” css=”.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -90px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2018 CONTACT Hayley Burgess, media@nilc.org, (202) 805-0375 Lindsay Toczylowski, Lindsay@ImmDef.org, (213) 634-7181 National Immigration Law Center Demands Information from the Government about Treatment of Jailed Children LOS ANGELES \u2014 The National Immigration Law Center today filed a Freedom of Immigration Act (FOIA) request on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17458,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions\/17458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}