A disturbing video launched by the Texas Civil Rights Project reveals an ugly conflict in between private professionals for U.S. Migration and Customs Enforcement and a lawyer trying to assist asylum-seeking migrant children locked up in a McAllen, Texas, hotel.
The chilling scene at the Hampton Inn & Suites, which can be seen listed below, assisted trigger a lawsuit late Friday by the Texas group and the American Civil Liberties Union to stop the deportation of the children being apprehended by the Trump administration in hotels. The suit is likewise requiring an opportunity for the kids to speak to a lawyer.
BREAKING: Our lawyer was aggressively turned down from trying to offer assistance to immigrant kids unlawfully detained at a Hampton Inn in McAllen, TX. He and another of our staffer were violently pushed into the hotel elevator and were told they could not use help. #FreeThemALL! https://t.co/xSOxHOViKp pic.twitter.com/MEp7UmK6Gv
— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) July 23, 2020
” The Trump administration is holding kids in trick in hotels, declining to provide lawyers access to them so it can expel them back to danger without even a chance for the kids to show they call for asylum,” ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told CBS News “Unfortunately, this is just the latest in a series of steps taken by the Trump administration to abuse and