Nearly a dozen migrant women with newborn children last year were returned to Mexican border cities without birth certificates for their children born in the United States, according to the results of an investigation published Friday by The Fuller Project and The Guardian.
Under the previous President Trump
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Friday’s investigation, which included several conversations with immigration lawyers, hospital records and legal documents, found that since the policy was implemented, at least 11 migrant women have been sent by CBP officials to Mexican cities just days after delivery. In the USA.
A 23-year-old Haitian woman was nine months pregnant when she arrived in the United States in July. Border patrol officers took her to a California hospital when her bag broke.
According to The Guardian, she was taken back to Mexico after being discharged from the hospital, without the birth certificate of her newborn daughter.
The incident marked only one of the nearly 200,000 expulsions of Title 42 recorded by CBP in fiscal 2020.
A CBP spokesman told the Fuller Project and The Guardian that the agency does not specifically track the number of women with American newborns who were expelled under Title 42.
“According to the policy, CBP does not comment on individual cases due to privacy reasons,” said the spokesman, adding: “Hospitals are responsible for providing birth certificates and CBP does not prevent individuals, regardless immigration status, obtain birth certificates for US children. “
CBP’s press office did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.
President Biden on a Tuesday executive order committed the CDC and the Department of Homeland Security to “promptly review” Title 42, along with other policies of the Trump administration that seek to contain immigration.
“The United States is also a country with borders and laws that must be complied with, ”says the order, while recognizing the need to improve“ legal avenues for migration to this country ”and“ restore and strengthen our own asylum system. , ”Which Biden says“ has been seriously hampered by policies enacted in the past 4 years that violated our values and caused unnecessary human suffering ”.