Donald Trump’s administration has expelled about 8,800 unaccompanied migrant children intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border since March 20 under rules seeking to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to court documents filed Friday by the Justice Department.The administration had declined to disclose the numbers since June, when it said about 2,000 children had been expelled.
Immigration advocates had argued that many more were likely subject to the rules, but the scope of the expulsions was not clear until Friday. ‘The cruelty is staggering:’ U.S.
deports migrants using coronavirus public health powers The administration implemented new border rules on March 21 that scrapped decades-old practices under.