There are claims being made by illegal immigrants that they were coerced into signing a separated parent form that essentially gave away their rights to be reunified with their children, NBC News reported.
The Separated Parent’s Removal Form authorizes their deportation without their child or children, NBC reported.
The Trump administration claimed that 154 illegals had purposely signed the form and agreed to be deported while their child stayed behind, according to the report.
However, legal groups – including the ACLU – are working with a portion of those who say they were pressured into signing or signed a form that was in English instead of their native language Spanish, NBC reported.
In a court filing last week, the ACLU said migrant parents "may not have availed themselves of their right to seek asylum because they were misled or coerced into believing that asserting their asylum claim would delay or preclude reunification," NBC reported.
"This was either the cruelest policy, even more cruel than I think people realize, or it was the most negligent policy of all time," Lindsay Toczylowski, the executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, told NBC.
The Trump administration would not comment to NBC, other than to say all those who signed did so willfully.
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