{"id":3818,"date":"2019-11-14T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-report-whistleblowers-blast-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:49:54","slug":"senate-report-whistleblowers-blast-trump-administrations-immigration-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-report-whistleblowers-blast-trump-administrations-immigration-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate report: Whistleblowers blast Trump administration’s immigration policies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(CNN)<\/cite>El\u00a0Trump administration’s immigration policies<\/a>\u00a0have taken a toll on some of the officers tasked with carrying them out, according to\u00a0a scathing report<\/a>\u00a0by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The 81-page report released Thursday compiles whistleblower accounts and media reports to provide an overview of the administration’s crackdown on migrants seeking asylum in the United States and attempts to curb migration to the southern border.<\/div>\n
In one email, dated August 12, 2019, and obtained by Merkley’s office, an asylum officer denounced one of the administration’s policies as “clearly designed to further this administration’s racist agenda of keeping Hispanic and Latino populations from entering the United States.” The email was\u00a0first reported by The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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The officer was referring to the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols program, which requires some migrants to stay in Mexico for the duration of their immigration proceedings. The program is being challenged in court, but has been allowed to proceed for the time being.<\/div>\n
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It’s not the first time asylum officers have expressed frustration over the program, which advocates argue puts migrants, many of whom are from Central America, in harm’s way.<\/div>\n
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In June, the union representing US asylum officers\u00a0asked a federal court to end the policy<\/a>, saying the directives are “fundamentally contrary to the moral fabric of our Nation and our international and domestic legal obligations.”<\/div>\n
Merkley’s report, titled “Shattered Refuge,” emphasizes the frustrations held by some officials in the administration who are responsible for carrying out its policies and raises alarm over departmental actions that it alleges exacerbated the crisis at the southern border.<\/div>\n
The report included details about:<\/div>\n
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