Our national research organization, the Latino Policy Coalition (LPC) has submitted an official complaint for the Universal Periodic Review by the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the human rights record of the United States of America.
The 10 page complaint charges the U.S. with routinely and consistently violating human rights by officially causing the de facto misappropriation and removal of at least an estimated 46,000 children from their immigrant parents. These practices condoned by the United States government violate six Articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and nine Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"During 2011, 46,000 mothers and fathers of at least one U.S. citizen child were part of massive ICE deportations; and many of these children (unable to be claimed by their parents held in ICE detention centers) were forced into county foster care systems-as abandoned and neglected children.
Subsequently, some infants have been put up for adoption, apparently making the practice of shattering undocumented working families a standard and acceptable legal procedure in the United States.
At least 5,100 children in this circumstance are now MISSING spread throughout the country in a gulag of federal, state, and county conflicting laws and procedures-which keep their rightful parents from finding them,and regaining custody either in the U.S. or in Latin America.
Human rights advocates need to move on the national and international level to reunite these families; and end these blunt violations of perhaps the oldest and most fundamental of human rights: a parent's right to raise and care for their own child.
The UN complaint asks the United Nations to press for immediate steps and remedies from the United States to begin the process of reunification of affected families to include:
The issuance of a United Nations Writ of Habeas Corpus requiring that the President of the United States produce a complete and detailed list of children who have been removed from the custody and care of their parents as a result of detention or deportation proceedings initiated against immigrant parents.
Requesting U.S. President Barack Obama- to issue a Presidential Executive Order to identify the affected children for reunification with their parents; and to end the practice of governmental jurisdictions within the USA engaging in the arbitrary removal of children from the custody and care of their immigrant parents.
To help, visit: www.latinopolicycoalition.org
(The Latino Policy Coalition is a national non-partisan non-profit consortium of the country's leading Latino research organizations and scholars. LPC is chaired by former San Francisco Supervisor Jim Gonzalez, the author of the nation's first City of Sanctuary Ordinance to protect the rights of undocumented immigrants).
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Request for Intervention to the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples, Professor James Anaya
Dear Special Rapporteur Anaya,
In furtherance of the objectives of the Conference and Consultation on the Significance of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which you hosted today at the University of Arizona School of Law, please consider submitting a formal inquiry to the US Justice Department regarding the following issue, namely:
The continued persecution and discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in Maricopa County, Arizona including exclusion from the procedures of investigation and remedy involving racial profiling currently under way in Maricopa County by the US Justice Department.
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Extract: Memorandum to the US Justice Department
Therefore, in light of the fact that the issues of racial profiling and discriminatory policing that have begun to be addressed in the US Justice Department Letter of Findings regarding the Maricopa County Sheriff's office and the Melendrez vs. Arpaio decision by the US Court of Justice HAVE NOT mentioned the systematic practices of racial profiling against Indigenous Peoples in particular as fundamental to the overall violations of Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Indigenous Rights within the scope of law enforcement operations in Maricopa County:
Tupac Enrique Acosta. Yaotachcauh
Tlahtokan Nahuacalli
TONATIERRA
They cannot get social security benefits without being a citizen.
Our whole social security system is propped up by them and you ignorant people would like to see these undocumented workers removed? That works for me just as long as each person that wants them removed cannot claim social security either.
As for the taking of the children from their parents, this seems like a violation of the 8th amendment as it is certainly cruel or unusual punishment to remove a child from their parents for simply being an undocumented alien.
The parents illegally entered this country or intentionally overstayed a visa.
The parents are now here illegally.
They either brought children with them or had children while living here.
They, the parents, initiated the situation and caused the problems that now impact the children.
But somehow, others (read US Taxpayers) are responsible for the care and welfare of these children?
The taxpayer that did nothing to start or foster the problem/situation is now the solution?
We are responsible for these families?
Really, we are in the wrong and we are responsible?
Not likely!
you sound like a GREAT human being!
Millions of foreigners entered the US illegally, set up shop, work in violation of the laws and have children here, citizens of their parent's nations and accidentally, Americans. The is deportation to their home country. When they go, they are free to take their families with them. Only through their choice do they abandon them. Does the US owe amnesty and citizenship to them for breaking our laws and managing to produce offspring here? No.
If we imprison our own citizens who are parents, why should we let foreigners slated for deportation stay because they are parents? Particularly if all it takes is a visit to a consulate for the whole family to go?
There is no "human right" specified by the UN or any treaty that allows people to cross into the US without inspection. In most nations of the Western Hemisphere there is no such right. For it to exist would require reciprocity.
You won't see that coming from any Latin nation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
Makes one suspicious about the rest of his assertions.
On the other hand, we should change the law so that those born here of illegals should be illegal