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Trump policy of detaining children 'may amount to torture', UN says – live

Guardian correspondents follow all the developments on both sides of the border as president points finger at Democrats

* Going through hell: parents tell of anguish at the border

* Texas border denounces ‘shameful’ camp for migrant children

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/jun/22/trump-family-separation-crisis-immigration-border

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UN says Trump policy 'may amount to torture'
Sam Levin in the Guardian’s San Francisco bureau here, taking over our live coverage of family separations at the border. The Guardian has correspondents reporting on both sides of the border, in Guatemala and across the US who will continue sending dispatches.

Here’s a quick update from the United Nations human rights office, which has said that Trump’s decision to stop separating children from their parents doesn’t go far enough and may amount to torture. From the AP:

Human rights office spokeswoman Ravini Shamdasani said Friday that “children should never be detained for reasons related to their or their parents’ migration status”.

Shamdasani urged the US to overhaul its migration policy, such as by relying on “non-custodial and community-based alternatives” under the “logic of care” rather than that of law enforcement.

Also Friday, a group of nearly a dozen independent human rights experts commissioned by the UN said the new US policy “may lead to indefinite detention of entire families in violation of international human rights standards”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/jun/22/trump-family-separation-crisis-immigration-border