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"It's a Humanitarian Crisis": Texas Lawyer Describes Chaos, Terror of Family Separation at Border

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AMY GOODMAN: Are parents being threatened with their children being adopted if they don't self-deport, if they don't say they'll be deported?

EFRÃ"degreesN OLIVARES: We've had at least two clients reach out, through their relatives, to us to report that they were told that if they wanted to see their children again, they had to sign their voluntary departure and renounce to their asylum claims.

AMY GOODMAN: Do the vast majority of people sign those voluntary departures to get their kids back?

EFRÃ"degreesN OLIVARES: We've had clients who have done that. If I were in that situation, if I was desperate to see my child, I would do anything I had to do to see my child.

AMY GOODMAN: Efre'n Olivares, lawyer and director of the Racial and Economic Justice Program for the Texas Civil Rights Project.

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