ICE and ORR Policies Violate Psychotherapy

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Office of Refuge Resettlement (ORR) policies, violate key premises of psychotherapy.

In April 2018, the ORR signed a formal memorandum of agreement with ICE to share its therapy notes for therapy sessions with immigrant children. This policy not only formalized these children’s betrayals but went toward destroying the integrity of psychological therapy as a whole.

PsiAN drafted a petition protesting this “weaponization” of therapy notes to incarcerate and deport vulnerable, isolated, and traumatized youth.  Other professional organizations have similarly protested. We all call upon ORR to revoke its Memorandum of Agreement with ICE immediately. And for an end to the use of therapy notes to betray immigrant children and the field of psychotherapy as a whole.

Sign the petition here: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/379/862/396/tell-orr-and-ice-stop-using-psychotherapy-notes-to-betray-and-endanger-children/

February 2020