Parents Were 'Coerced' To Waive Reunification Rights With Children, Complaint Says
Lawyers for immigrants filed a complaint on Thursday with Homeland Security. They contend that parents, amid cruel treatment, did not understand the forms they were being forced to sign.
by Sasha Ingber
Aug 23, 2018
2 minutes
Before the family reunification process began, government officials coerced mothers and fathers who were separated from their children into signing documents that waived their rights â threatening them, deceiving them and even denying them food and water, say immigration groups that filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday.
In the 28-page , the American Immigration Council and American
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