Border Report Live: Physician’s Report Details Families Separated, Deported To Honduras

The detention and deportation of immigrants who lived in the United States for years and have now been sent to Honduras is causing family separations and irreparable psychological and physical harm to children, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights and the Women’s Refugee Commission.

Dr. Michele Heisler, medical director for the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights, details the report she co-authored on this episode of Border Report Live to South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles. She explains how she and other physicians spent several days in Honduras in November interviewing women and men who had just arrived after being deported, and also interviewed with physicians, counselors and government officials.

The report, “What About My Children: Family Separation Among Parents Deported to Honduras,” says 92% of those deported had no criminal background. Most had been long-time residents living in the United States and were arrested at work, at courthouses during mandatory immigration hearings, while running errands, picking up children at school and at traffic stops.