Migrant families are being separated under remain-in-Mexico policy, complaint alleges
After Marcelo, a Guatemalan migrant, crossed the border with his 15-year-old son, Byron, in May, he was accused of lying about being the boy’s father and was sent back to Mexico, according to a complaint to government watchdogs announced on Tuesday.
His son was sent to a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in Florida, the complaint said.
Immigration officials also “humiliated” Marcelo and threw Byron's birth certificate in the garbage, according to the complaint, which was announced Tuesday by the Women’s Refugee Commission.