{"id":4356,"date":"2019-01-18T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/us-senator-merkley-seeks-fbi-probe-of-dhs-chief-for-possible-perjury\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:59","slug":"us-senator-merkley-seeks-fbi-probe-of-dhs-chief-for-possible-perjury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/us-senator-merkley-seeks-fbi-probe-of-dhs-chief-for-possible-perjury\/","title":{"rendered":"El senador estadounidense Merkley busca que el FBI investigue al jefe del DHS por posible perjurio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Un senador dem\u00f3crata de Estados Unidos pidi\u00f3 el viernes al FBI que investigue si la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kirstjen Nielsen, cometi\u00f3 perjurio cuando testific\u00f3 ante el Congreso que la administraci\u00f3n nunca tuvo una pol\u00edtica para separar a las familias inmigrantes.<\/p>\n<p>El senador Jeff Merkley ha sido un cr\u00edtico abierto de las medidas tomadas por la administraci\u00f3n Trump el a\u00f1o pasado para apuntar a las familias inmigrantes que cruzan a los Estados Unidos para las acciones de cumplimiento.<\/p>\n<p>La administraci\u00f3n implement\u00f3 una pol\u00edtica de &#039;tolerancia cero&#039; para enjuiciar penalmente y encarcelar a todos los que cruzan ilegalmente la frontera, incluidos los que viajan con sus hijos, lo que provoc\u00f3 una ola de separaciones familiares el a\u00f1o pasado.<\/p>\n<p>La pol\u00edtica y las im\u00e1genes inquietantes de ni\u00f1os peque\u00f1os retenidos en jaulas provocaron una reacci\u00f3n negativa del p\u00fablico, lo que provoc\u00f3 que la administraci\u00f3n cambiara posteriormente de rumbo sobre la separaci\u00f3n familiar. El presidente Donald Trump firm\u00f3 una orden ejecutiva para poner fin a la pr\u00e1ctica el 20 de junio de 2018.<\/p>\n<p>En su carta al director del FBI, Christopher Wray, Merkley se\u00f1al\u00f3 la evidencia emergente de que el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, desde diciembre de 2017, hab\u00eda estado desarrollando una nueva pol\u00edtica para separar familias.<\/p>\n<p>Merkley public\u00f3 un memorando sobre &quot;Opciones de pol\u00edtica para responder al aumento de la inmigraci\u00f3n ilegal en la frontera&quot;, que dijo que fue creado por altos funcionarios del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional y del Departamento de Justicia que discut\u00edan la separaci\u00f3n familiar como un elemento disuasorio para los inmigrantes.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, se\u00f1al\u00f3 el senador de Oreg\u00f3n, durante su testimonio ante el Comit\u00e9 Judicial de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes el 20 de diciembre de 2018, Nielsen dijo: \u201cNo miento, nunca tuvimos una pol\u00edtica de separaci\u00f3n familiar\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El FBI se neg\u00f3 a comentar y el DHS no respondi\u00f3 de inmediato a una solicitud de comentarios.<\/p>\n<p>La Oficina del Inspector General del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE. UU. (HHS, por sus siglas en ingl\u00e9s) dijo el jueves que hab\u00eda identificado a &quot;miles&quot; de ni\u00f1os separados adem\u00e1s de los 2737 incluidos como parte de la demanda que impugna las separaciones familiares presentada por la Uni\u00f3n Estadounidense de Libertades Civiles (American Civil Liberties Union). ACLU) el a\u00f1o pasado.<\/p>\n<p>El auditor dijo en un informe que antes de la pol\u00edtica de &quot;tolerancia cero&quot; anunciada oficialmente, el gobierno comenz\u00f3 a aumentar las separaciones en 2017 por otras razones relacionadas con la seguridad y el bienestar de un ni\u00f1o, incluida la separaci\u00f3n de padres con antecedentes penales o falta de documentos adecuados. .<\/p>\n<p>Trump hizo campa\u00f1a para presidente con la promesa de detener el flujo de inmigrantes ilegales y drogas en la frontera suroeste de Estados Unidos con M\u00e9xico. Su demanda de $5.7 mil millones para construir un muro en la frontera con M\u00e9xico ha llevado al cierre parcial del gobierno m\u00e1s largo de la historia, ahora en su d\u00eda 28.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; A Democratic U.S. senator on Friday asked the FBI to probe whether Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen committed perjury when she testified to Congress that the administration never had a policy to separate immigrant families. 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