Newsweek, Unaccompanied Children Deserve Protection, Not Partisan Politics | Opinion

Judge Ramona Gonzalez pens a powerful opinion piece for Newsweek on an immigration bill that targets unaccompanied children. She states that if enacted, the Secure the Border Act would destroy the U.S. system for protecting unaccompanied children. The bill would significantly reduce the screening and protections for unaccompanied children arriving to the United States while making it virtually impossible for unaccompanied children within the United States to obtain legal relief. By doing so, the bill would all but ensure the return of these children to situations of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and extreme violence—the very outcomes that bedrock bipartisan safeguards like the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA) sought to prevent.

Read the piece here.