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Separation of children from parents in situations of migrancy: avoidable trauma

Mrs L and her seven year old daughter arrived in San Diego, United States of America (U.S.) in November 2017, where she told border officials that they had fled the Congo in fear of their lives. For no apparent reason, and without any opportunity to argue against the decision, the officials took the crying child away from her mother, and placed her thousands of miles away in a facility in Chicago. It took a court application by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to get her back, four months after her removal. The court case grew into a class action to assist others, like Mirian G, a mother from Honduras who came to the U.S. with her 18 month old son in February 2018. Despite her showing the authorities several documents that proved he was her child, the authorities removed him and it took her two months to have him safely returned (Cheng, 2018). These cases were early examples of what was soon to become an avalanche of removals.