Why are children of American immigrants being separated from their parents?

A voice recording showed how children surrounded by fences of iron wept in the choir and searched for their parents, who were kept away, as well as in other countries.

Representatives of the Trump government say that in advance, many asylum seekers entering America illegally and with small children were not held in detention centres until asylum demand was considered. They were left free because of their children until the day they were brought up for the decision, but in most cases they did not appear at all and continued their illicit life in America.

For the administration, this was turned into a method to take advantage of the system, and it had significantly increased the number of illegal immigrants. For this reason, the government decided not to release parents with children but to keep their children in special camps while parents are being tried for illegal border violations, a procedure that lasts several weeks and up to several months.

President Trump's administration took pictures of camps where children were seen playing video games and studying, but other photos from journalists showed that their conditions were different. Children in other centers were kept in fenced areas, such as cages, lying on ground mattresses, and covered with aluminum paper. A secretly recorded audio showed how the younger ones would cry in the choir for their parents.

Trump and his spokespersons say that with legal intervention they can make the situation of the divided children change, but for that they should vote together with the Democrats, who, according to the republics, are refusing to co-operate. The Democrats, on the other hand, accuse the Republicans of putting serious conditions on them. If they want to save separate children, they have to pass laws against another category of Americans, “D REAMERS”, who are children of immigrants who have been coming to America for many years, brought by parents, and after being educated in America, have received a status from the Obama administration that allows them to continue their lives, work and study normally, as long as they do not commit crimes.

While politicians in America continue to blame each other, CNN journalist Rosa Flores goes to Tijuana, Mexico, to meet Ignacio Villatorro, whose wife and four children have been caught. They were not left together but were divided into different camps in three different states of America after applying for asylum.

He connects with one of the guys on the phone, with a video, and advises his 13-year-old son not to worry, try to learn English in the camp and behave well. But the other two boys refuse to open their father's phone. They believe they've been abandoned by parents, they believe it's their fault, which makes Dad cry in front of the cameras. My heart breaks because they are not abandoned”, he says.

Ed Lavanndera, a CNN correspondent, says the southern Texas area is the most beaten by illegal immigrants trying to escape violence from countries in South and Central America. Many of them enter the town of McAllen, Texas, where, after being caught, they submit to the policy of “Tolerance Zero” of Trump.

If you cross the border illegally, you will prosecute”, Prosecutor General Jeff Sessions said in May of this year. If you trafficking children across the border, you will be prosecuted. And the child will be separated from you according to the law. ”

During Obama and President Bush's administration, this law applied only to illegal immigrants returning to the US for the third or fourth time. But President Trump's administration decided to prosecute the first time those who breach the border, which has created the current situation. Previously, there were about 20 to 30 such cases a day. There are now 200, according to Miguel Nogueras, lawyer in McAllen, Texas.

CNN journalist Bob Ortega entered the largest U.S. centre where children isolated from immigrant parents are kept.

I visited a centre for immigrants' children, Casa Padre, organised in a former Walmart supermarket, about 23,000 square metres. It holds 1500 boys, from 10 to 17 years of age, says the journalist, adding that the tour that the centre's leaders gave him was more to show only the good side, but without enabling them to interview children or staff working there.

They allowed us to see that the children were being treated well. And from that point of view, this center is clean, children are well fed, but it remains a center of ban. We entered when the boys were about to eat dinner, and the children who were about to take the food were very long. Boys sleep five in one room, he adds. / TCH