The number of people in custody is growing despite their families legally entering the country during the Biden administration.
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A six-year-old Honduras boy with leukemia who was detained in immigration detention with his family since his release from May to July 2nd.
The boy, mother and nine-year-old sister legally entered the country last fall in search of asylum. Federal agents left the immigration hearing in Los Angeles on May 29th and arrested them. Their release was released on July 3rd, but their future remains unknown.
The family’s lawyers were sued for release, claiming that their detention violated their legitimate process and constitutional rights for unreasonable seizures. The lawyer feared that juvenile care would be interrupted if deported to Honduras or detained for a long time, as leukemia in children requires consistent treatment.
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The family situation resembles many migrants who arrived during the Biden administration, following the rules of the time and not violating the law. However, recently, the Trump administration has decided that most of them should not be in the US, detaining more and more immigrants, leading to mandatory court hearings.
“When the government is doing exactly what they have requested from them, can those who steal the ice be taken away from their community when their individuals are doing exactly?” said Erola Mukherjee, a family and director attorney at the Columbia Law School Immigration Rights Clinic.
Neither the Immigration and Customs Enforcement nor the Department of Homeland Security responded immediately to requests for comment in emails.
The family entered the US via the CBP One app in October, according to court filings. President Donald Trump’s administration reused the app to help immigrants leave the country.
A DHS spokesperson said in a statement on June 28 that most immigrants who have entered the country within the past two years, Joe Biden was president, will be subject to rapid removal.
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Families have attracted the attention of media around the country, especially given their children’s cancer. The lawyer says he still needs treatment. Their names have not been announced due to the threat they face in Honduras.
A boy who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of three had recently been undergoing chemotherapy for two and a half years. He has about six months of treatment left.
The family was released along the US-Mexico border for several hours, held near San Antonio at the South Texas Family Housing Center, according to a spokesman for the Texas Civil Rights Project, a legal advocacy organization representing the court’s families.
As of July 3rd, they were staying in a shelter waiting for a way back to Los Angeles, where they lived with relatives before their arrest. The family is also looking to receive medical care for the boy to continue chemotherapy, Mukherjee said.
