Customs protection and boundaries invalidate protection for women and pregnant infants

Customs and US Border Protection (CBP) has quietly eliminated many internal policies designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people – including pregnant women, infants, the elderly and people with serious medical conditions.

Resolution, Explained in a note On May 5, it was signed by the representative Commissioner, Beit Flores, cancels four policies of the Biden era that has been enacted over the past three years. These policies were aimed at addressing CBP failures for a long time to provide adequate care for detainees who are at risk most at risk-have proven in some cases, in some cases, they are fatal.

The May 5 note was distributed internally to the leadership of the High Agency, but it was not publicly announced.

CBP justified the decline by reporting the abolition of the old policies related to care and custody – that the policies were “outdated” and “indisputable” with the current enforcement priorities of the agency.

Together, policies that are now suffering from standards for detainees with increased medical needs-for example, access to water and food for pregnant people, guaranteeing privacy for breastfeeding mothers, mandating diapers and heterogeneous format in the holding facilities. They also issued instructions to agents to address individuals at risk as quickly as possible to reduce time to reserve.

“It is a horrific thing and it is just an extension of the culture of cruelty that the administration is trying to commit,” said Sarah Mihata, Deputy Director of Government Affairs in the American Civil Liberties Union. She says the cancellation of policies “is a cursed statement about the way this administration thinks and is interested in people with young children.”

CBP did not immediately respond to WIRED request for comment.

One of the largest law enforcement agencies in the world, CBP is primarily responsible for the arrest of individuals who cross the American border without permission. While the enforcement of migration and customs (ICE) is supervised by the long -term detention and deportation procedures, CBP deals with the early stages of the nursery, when immigrants are held and treated in short -term facilities that have been repeatedly painted for criticism of medical care and residents

In January The Judicial Committee of the Senate He issued a cursed report revealing a dysfunction in medical operations at CBP. The investigation revealed the staff of chronic employees, the improper use of medical record systems, mysterious or non -existing guidelines for treating children, pregnant individuals and others with complex medical needs.

The report was driven by the 8 -year -old Anadith Danay Reyes álvarez, Who died in May 2023 at the CBP facility in Harlengen, Texas. It is said that the Panamanian girl, who had a known history of the heart problems and sickle cell anemia, was said to have appealed to her mother. Both were ignored. She died in the reservation, and her last hour he spent in a facility whose employees were not strained – and they seem unwilling to provide critical care.

“Last week only in letters to the Trump administration, serious concerns about transparency, accountability and humanitarian treatment of detained individuals, especially in light of repeated reports on the abuse of detainees and insufficient medical care, said,” said American Senator Dick Durbins, head of the Judicial Committee of the Senate. “Instead of taking the correct action, the Trump administration has canceled many internal policies aimed at protecting some of the most vulnerable individuals in CBP nursery – including pregnant women, children, elderly, and people with serious medical conditions. This is unacceptable.

Politics repercussions to determine the tactics of immigration in the Trump administration came from attempts to cancel a situation 500,000 immigrants From Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela they live legally in the United States to Student visas cleansing. In January, a day after President Donald Trump, the Ministry of Internal Security Reverse Biden’s era policy This prevented ice and CBP officers from arresting people in “protected areas”, including schools, places of worship and hospitals.

Since the number of people detained in ICE detention has risen, approximately 47,928 were launched in April, according to access to the treatment records, cuts on the southern American border decreased sharply, The decline to the levels you did not see in contracts.

CBP says its employees will continue to follow wider criteria under National standards for transport, escort, detention and research (TEDS)And remains binding on the Flores agreement, which requires giving children safe and healthy places. Trump administration He previously argued The original settlement does not require allowing children to sleep or wash themselves with soap.