In addition, the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project has interviewed the detainees, and found that that these families have bona fide asylum claims, but were deprived of a meaningful opportunity to present them at their hearings in immigration court.
We find ironic and disturbing that while this administration has raised by 10,000 the quota for Syrian refugees in FY 2016, it is deporting mothers and children who are already in the United States and seeking protection as they have fled the most violent region in the western hemisphere and are trying to find refuge.