Artikels/Articles You won't believe what Trump is doing to refugee children.
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Refugees are being forced to go to therapy, then their words are used to deport them. Sign to demand an end to this cruel practice.
Under the United State’s Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) policy, minors are required to meet with counselors within 72 hours of entering the system. They are then required to meet with one every week until they are released — or deported. These young patients often tell counselors their deepest feers and confessions. Ostensibly, this is to help these children deal with the trauma they have likely endured during their journey to the United States. But Trump's ICE has been forcing therapists to hand over their therapy notes and then using them to leverage the deportation of these minors.
What would be a violation of doctor-patient confidentiality in any other situation is simply considered "information sharing" between agencies when it comes to ICE and ORR.
In one case, Kevin, a young Honduran boy who arrived in the states unaccompanied with his sister, was detained and then obligated to speak to a counselor about his past. He told the therapist some of the nightmare he experienced after his grandmother passed and the vicious gang MS-13 occupied their home. They slept in his bed, tortured rival gang members on his patio, and eventually forced him to sell drugs for the brutal organization. That is why he decided to escape to the United States.
ICE decided to take this deeply personal and traumatic information and run with it — to fight any claim Kevin had to refugee status. This isn't right. What ICE and ORR are doing is a disgrace. They are forcing children to reveal their darkest moments and forcing counselors to be complicit in their xenophobic deportation plan. It must end.
