WASHINGTON: The Biden government will subside restrictions placed in people in the country illegally pregnant, postpartum or nursing, the latest changes in the wider effort to soften the immigration detention policy imposed by former President Donald Trump.
Under new policies, immigration and customs enforcement officers generally will not detain or arrest people who are pregnant or breastfeeding or who have infants in the previous year, according to the draft of the plan distributed with the New York Times and someone who is familiar with his policy.
Language in the policy will be neutral gender, acknowledging that transgender men can give birth, another departure from past referrals.
The number of pregnant immigrants in detention increases sharply below Trump, which reverses the policies imposed in 2016 by President Barack Obama who calls for holding it only in extraordinary circumstances.
Since 2016, the ice has captured immigrants to get more than 4,000 times, according to internal government data distributed at the time.
The number of detention has fallen recently, partly because of the steps to reduce the number of people in gathering arrangements that are at greater risk of contracting Covid-19.
At present there are less than 20 immigrants detained, remain for an average of three days.
Advocates of Immigration welcomed the new policy of President Joe Biden, which they said stepped further than the 2016 version spent when he was the vice president.
But like other Biden immigration policies today, all of which have been done through executive orders or direction and not codified in law, protection for pregnant and postpartum immigrants can disappear under government in the future.
“Any changes in the Presidential Administration Materially can change the lives of the community, especially immigrants and people who are somewhat trying to navigate their way through the immigration system,” said Breanne J.
Palmer, a lawyer with the current and previous undocublack network in the country illegally , “People who hold back the detention when they are pregnant or breastfeeding, you know, they really have a very little way,” Palmer said.
New policies will not apply to migrants in customs detention and border protection.
Border patrol agents are usually the first US law enforcement officials facing migrants who cross the border, and they usually hold it only a few days before moving them to custody ice.