A wrong turn on the US bridge and Canada has a Detroit woman facing deportation

A woman from Guatemala says that she and her two children born in the United States have been detained for about a week by customs agents in Detroit after the directives of the phone application led them to the nearest Costco to an international bridge linking the city to the city.

She is now facing removal procedures in June in the Immigration Court, according to Ruby Robinson, the first administrative lawyer at the Migrant Rights Center in Michigan.

On Thursday, Robinson, US MP Rashida Tleb, and the American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan called for more accountability and transparency by customs and US border protection (CBP) over frustration along the northern border of the country with Canada.

“Our neighbors and our families should not disappear because they have taken a wrong turn,” Tlepeb said.

Although the northern border sees much lower confrontations with immigrants from the US -Mexican border, the issue of women is not uncommon, according to TLAIB.

Michigan’s Democrat said that she had told her on March 21 by CBP that about 213 people have been arrested on the same site since January, when more than 90 percent was accidentally driving on the Bridge Square.

Tlaib also said it had been told that 12 families were detained in the same building, as Robinson’s agent was detained.

“We don’t know exactly what is happening. There is a lack of transparency,” she said, adding that similar judicial operations are likely to occur elsewhere along the 891 km northern border.

But customs and border protection said that the agents who faced slightly more than 200 people are not documented from January 20 to March 21 in Crossings in Detroit.

About half of them were arrested and delivered to ICE after the completion of secondary treatment, according to a CBP spokesman.

The Migrant Rights Center in Michigan is the Guatemali woman.

Robinson refused to launch her name or era, which only confirms that she was about six years old, but has no legal status. Her daughters were born in the United States and the fat in Detroit.

She lives in the southwest of Detroit, and it is a neighborhood that includes residents of large Spanish origins located under the ambassador bridge and through the Detroit River of Windsor, Unit.

On March 8, the woman and her daughters were in a car driven by her 19 -year -old brother. “I used a phone application to find the closest Costco and did not realize that the closest store was on the Canadian side of the bridge.

They traveled to the Bridge Square, but they did not wander in the graphics compartments. They were stopped by CBP agents and were transferred to a nearby building where they were interrogated and fingerprints. It also signed a model stating that it entered the United States illegally.

She said that the agents told her that she would be deported and encouraged to take her daughters with her back to Guatemala, according to Robinson.

They were detained in a small room without windows, slept on beds and gave a microwaveable food such as noodles, Ramin and oats. She said they are only allowed to leave the room to use the bathroom and shower.

By Monday night, March 10, her younger daughter began developing a fever. The woman said that the agents told her that they had no medicine for the child. The eldest daughter would soon be coughing.

While going to the bathroom on Tuesday, the family finally saw her brother in the hallway. The woman said he was in restrictions. She said that her brother has no legal status in the United States and works as a bishop with her children’s father.

On Wednesday night, the girls were handed over to the sister of the woman. She was released the next day.

“When individuals violate immigration laws, their choices are subject to detention and removal,” Hilton Beckham, CBP Commissioner, said in a statement. “It admitted that the United States illegally entered in 2018. In a policy, CBP worked to find a suitable guardian for its American citizens. However, she initially chose to keep them with her, and prolong the detention period. Once the children were placed with the guardian, she was transferred to the ice.”

Tlaib, who works for the US House of Representatives Control Committee, said that such arrests are part of a style in which short -term facilities are used in the long term by CBP.

“The erosion of legal procedures is a threat to all of us – regardless of your name, regardless of the state of immigration,” said Tlaib. “A wrong turn should not lead to the disappearance and erosion of a person’s legal procedures.”