The Young Center for the Rights of Immigrant Children accused officials of the Department of Children and Families of the State of Florida (DCF) of violate a 30 -year rule that prohibits them Deliver an undocumented minor to the authorities migratory.
“Instead of protecting this young man and keeping him safe from the damage, the state of Florida did the opposite by calling ICE, then cruelly removed it from his host house with wives and shacklesand He put it in immigration detention“, Said Kelly Albinak Kords, co -director of the organization, in a pronouncement.
The association referred to an article published on Wednesday by the Miami Herald that reported that the authorities took the young man, identified as Henry, from his foster home in Pensacola Because Florida officials called ICE to betray him.
The minor and his mother, whom they have already deported, They crossed the border to Texasfrom where he traveled to Pensacola to look for work after being the victim of Trafficking from people for work purposes.
After the case was released, local congressmen sent a letter to the secretary Taylor Hatch, of the DCF, to demand that C clarifyUAL is the collaboration between this department and the ICEconsidering that what happened was “unnecessary and unacceptable.”
“It is morally objectionable to try to complete deportation fees when focusing on vulnerable children under the protection of Florida. Florida is better than this, even if our government is not“, Wrote the representative Fentrice Driskell by sharing the letter he signed with more than a dozen colleagues.
State Senator Ileana García, co -founder of the ‘Latin For Trump’ organization, held Stephen Miller, responsible One of the president’s main counselors and architect of anti -immigrant policies, of this type of facts.
“Miller has included undocumented minors in the reception system, many of them victims of trafficking of people, in their efforts to fulfill desperately a weekly deportation fee. These individuals are being collected in the houses of their reception parents. This is unacceptable, regardless of their citizen status, ”denounced the Republican in X.
The controversy occurs while Florida is a leader in the application of Trump’s immigration policy, since Governor Ron Desantis has promoted agreements 287 (g) that They force the authorities of the 67 counties to cooperate with ICE.