Complaint: US officials coerced migrants to sign documents

 

August 24, 2018



PHOENIX (AP) — The Honduran mother said she felt repeatedly pressured to sign documents she wasn't given time to read, so she lashed out at an immigration officer, telling him it shouldn't be this hard to get her son back.

The officer put his hands in a motion imitating choking someone and told her that's what he'd do to her if she were his wife, the woman said in an interview Thursday. She spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity over fears about her safety.

"I felt so horrible because of so many things they told us, that they were gonna deport us, that our kids were gonna stay...



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