WASHINGTON — The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died this week while in U. S. immigration custody has been killed by a 17-year-old boy in custody. The U. S. government demanded answers from the U. S. government. on Friday, saying her son had no known illnesses and showed no symptoms of illness before his death.
The teenager known as Angel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, according to a tweet from Honduran Foreign Minister Enrique Reina. Maradiaga was taken into custody at a facility in Safety Harbor, Florida, Reina said, and died Wednesday. His death underscored considerations about a tense immigration formula like Biden’s. The administration is handling the end of asylum restrictions known as Title 42.
His mother, Norma Sarai Espinoza Maradiaga, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that her son “wants the American dream. “
Angel Eduardo left his hometown of Olanchito, Honduras, on April 25, his mother said. He crossed the U. S. -Mexico border. He spoke to the U. S. Department of Health and Mexico a few days later and on May 5 referred to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration administers long-term services for young people who cross the border without a parent.
That same day he spoke for the last time with his mother, she on Friday.
“He told me he was in a shelter and he didn’t want to worry because I was in good hands,” she said. “We only talked for two minutes, I said goodbye to him and I wanted him well. “
This week, who was known only as one of her son’s friends at the shelter, called her to tell her that when she woke up for breakfast, Angel Eduardo was unresponsive and died.
Then his mother called a user in the United States who pretended to have won Angel Eduardo and asked for help verifying the information. A few hours later, this user called him back saying it was true that his son had died.
“I need to explain the true cause of my son’s death,” she said. He suffered from nothing and had not been in her knowledge.
“No one tells me. Anxiety is killing me,” he said. They say they are waiting for the effects of the autopsy and give me no other answer. “
The cause of death, cases of illness or medical treatment shall not be considered without delay.
HHS said Friday that it “is deeply saddened by this tragic loss and our mind goes out to the family, with whom we are in contact. “saying.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the news “devastating” and referred questions about the investigation to HHS.
Title 42 asylum restrictions expired Thursday, and President Joe Biden’s administration pronounced new restrictions on border crossings that went into effect Friday. Tens of thousands of others attempted to cross the U. S. -China border. The U. S. and Mexico government have been released in the weeks leading up to the expiration of Title 42, under which the U. S. government has issued a commitment to the U. S. government. The U. S. government deported many other people but allowed exemptions for others, adding minors who crossed the border unaccompanied by a parent.
It was the first known death of an immigrant child in custody under Biden’s direction. At least six young immigrants died in U. S. custody under former President Donald Trump, who at times kept thousands of children beyond the system’s capacity.
HHS operates long-term services to detain youth who cross the border without a parent until they can be placed with a sponsor. HHS services generally have beds and services, as well as education and other activities for minors, unlike border patrol posts and detention sites where detainees sleep on the floor of cells.
Advocates who oppose the detention of immigrant youth say HHS services are not adequate to detain minors for weeks or months, as they are.
More than 8,600 children are in HHS custody lately. This number may increase sharply in the coming weeks due to the conversion of border policies, as well as upward migration trends in the Western Hemisphere and the classic peak of crossings in spring and summer.
BORDER CONDITIONS
The U. S. -Mexico border was quiet Friday, providing some symptoms of the dreaded chaos following a flood of migrants worried about entering the United States before pandemic-related immigration restrictions end.
Less than 24 hours after the regulations known as Title 42 were lifted, migrants and government officials were still assessing the effect of the update and the new step by the Biden administration to stabilize the region.
“We haven’t noticed any really extensive increase in immigration this morning,” said Blas Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary for border policy and immigration at the Department of Homeland Security. He said the firm had express figures.
Migrants along the border continued to head deep into the Rio Grande to try their luck entering the United States while defying the government yelling at them to back off. Others looked to cell phones for an appointment scheduling app that is the centerpiece of the new system. Migrants with dates crossed a bridge in the hope of a new life. And the lawsuits have sought to prevent some of the measures.
Biden’s administration said the revamped formula is designed to crack down on illegal crossings and provide a new legal street for immigrants who pay thousands of dollars to smugglers to get them to the border.
Immigrants are now necessarily barred from asylum in the United States if they have not first applied online or applied for coverage in the countries through which they have passed. Families allowed to enter as their immigration proceedings progress will face curfews and GPS surveillance.
Across the river, from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez, many migrants were looking at their mobile phones in hopes of getting a coveted appointment to apply for entry. he.
Nearby, other migrants charged their phones on a lamppost to get an appointment. Most have resigned themselves to waiting.
“I hope it goes a little bigger and that appointments speed up a bit,” said Yeremy Depablos, 21, a Venezuelan who travels with seven cousins and has been waiting for a month in the village.
Fearing deportation, Depablos had to cross illegally. “We have to do it legally. “
Legal channels touted by the administration include a program that allows up to another 30,000 people a month from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter if they apply online with a financial sponsor and enter through an airport.
One hundred processing centers are opening in Guatemala, Colombia and elsewhere for migrants to apply to pass through to the United States, Spain or Canada. Up to another 1,000 people can enter through land crossings with Mexico if they get an appointment on the app.
If it works, the formula may fundamentally replace how immigrants arrive at the southern border. But Biden, who is running for re-election, faces strong complaints from immigrant advocates, who say he is abandoning more humane methods, and Republicans, who say he is lenient on border security.
On Friday morning, small teams of Haitian migrants with an appointment to seek asylum crossed the Gateway International Bridge connecting Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas. They crossed with the help of a non-governmental organization, surpassing the same traffic of students who commute. and personnel covered on the sidewalk of the bridge. Normal car traffic.
Melissa Lopez, executive director of the diocesan for migrants and refugees in El Paso, said the streets were quiet Friday, with few migrants present.
After speaking with many immigrants, he said they were willing to stick to the trail created by the federal government, but also feared deportation and possible fraudulent consequences for others crossing the border illegally.
The pause in border crossings comes after days in which large numbers of migrants crossed in hopes of being allowed to enter the U. S. It was held in the U. S. before the 42 restrictions expired.
Farther west, scores of migrants, mostly families, sat in two dozen rows between the border walls between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, as Border Patrol agents marched among them and chose who would be allowed to leave for processing. When some stood with them, those who remained applauded.
Gloria Inigo of Peru said she hoped her circle of relatives would be next. Inigo, her husband and two daughters, ages 5 and 8, crossed the border Wednesday before the new regulations took effect. He said he had heard about it and sought to get in before that, but was surprised that so many others were doing the same.
“I have faith,” he said of the possibility of obtaining asylum in the United States.
Title 42 has been in effect since March 2020. It allowed border officials to temporarily return asylum seekers across the border in order to prevent the spread of covid-19. The United States declared an end to the national emergency and ended the restrictions.
Although Title 42 prevented many other people from seeking asylum, it had no legal consequences, encouraging repeated attempts. After Thursday, the immigrants face a five-year ban on access to the United States and prosecution for an imaginable criminal.
Border Patrol leader Raul Ortiz said in a tweet Friday that the company apprehended another 67,759 people last week. That’s an average of 9,679 per day, nearly double the average of 5,200 since March.
That’s below the 11,000 figure the government said was the upper limit of what they expected after Title 42 ended, but it was unclear where the numbers reached in the hours leading up to Title 42’s expiration Thursday night.
“We see exactly the challenge that we were expecting,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Maokas said Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America. “”We can’t move other people before they succeed at our border. “
Border detention services were already well above capacity as the expiration of Title 42 approached. Authorities were ordered to release the migrants with a notice to inform immigration if overcrowding and other problems became critical.
But late Thursday, a federal ruling on former President Donald Trump’s appointees temporarily halted the administration’s plans to release others in the United States and set a hearing date on whether to expand the ruling. Customs and Border Protection said they would comply, however, calling it “a negative resolution that will result in harmful overcrowding. “
Other parts of the administration’s immigration plan were also in legal jeopardy.
Defense teams sued management over their new asylum laws minutes before they went into effect. Their lawsuit alleges that management’s policy is none other than that defended by Trump, which was rejected by the same court.
Biden’s management says its rule is different, arguing that it is an outright ban, but it imposes a greater burden of evidence to discharge asylum and that it combines restrictions with other recently opened legal channels.
Information for this article provided by Nomaan Merchant, Zeke Miller, Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat, Giovanna Dell’Orto, Colleen Long, Rebecca Santana, Christopher Sherman, Gerardo Carillo, Maria Verza, Morgan Lee and Suman Naishadham of The Associated Press.
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