Erik Javier Flores Hernandez, who fled Mexico after drug traffickers killed his mother, was sent to an adult detention center in Orange County, California, on his 18th birthday. ADVERTISEMENTA teenager seeking asylum from “severe child abuse” is currently being held in an adult detention center in Southern California after U.S. immigration agents shackled and arrested him in a youth shelter on his 18th birthday. She said officials could have allowed Flores to live with relatives or transfer to an adult shelter instead, as they’ve done with other cases in the past. The memo instructs ICE agents to ignore Obama’s memos on immigration priorities that targeted only recent arrivals and convicted criminal migrants for deportation. Instead, ICE agents are allowed to use wide discretion in deciding who to deport, and to consider anyone who is in the U.S. illegally to be subject to deportation.

Source: Huffington Post May 01, 2017 23:48 UTC