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Faced with a court-imposed deadline to reunite families separated at the southwest border, federal authorities are calling in volunteers to sort through records and resorting to DNA tests to match children with parents. And they acknowledged for the first time Thursday that of the nearly 3,000 children who are still in federal custody, about 100 are under the age of 5.
The family separations, part of an aggressive effort by the Trump administration to deter illegal immigration, have produced a chaotic scramble as officials now face political and judicial pressure to reunite families.
Records linking children to their parents have disappeared, and in some cases have been destroyed, according to two officials of the Department of Homeland Security, leaving the authorities struggling to identify connections between family members.
The effort is complicated by the fact that two federal agencies are involved in detaining and sheltering migrants, and they did not initially share records with each other. On Friday, the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services, which shelters the children and must now undertake reunifications, sent out a plea to federal public health workers for help with an exhaustive manual search of records.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/us/migrant-children-chaos-family-separation.html
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Phoenix61
(16,950 posts)children with their parents. This should be in the news every day until the election.
Baitball Blogger
(46,572 posts)This is going into some sick areas.
atreides1
(16,046 posts)Sell them?
Of course we're assuming that these children are still living!!!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And Sessions is just as crazy.
I have no doubt adoption was their fate. We know adults have been deported without their children. What other explanation makes sense.
The are they type of people that stole Native American children from their parents to be raised by real Americans.
Baitball Blogger
(46,572 posts)They never learn. A ggod class action suit is overdue.
Phoenix61
(16,950 posts)Check how many are currently placed with Catholic Social Services. There were 10 in a "tender age" shelter in Miami.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)First, they never plan for the consequences of their actions. So they had no plan to deal with implementing the horrible policy in the first place. They just started taking kids away from parents because that's what 45 told them to do.
Second, of course records were destroyed. After they figured out how poorly this went over their first instinct would be to get rid of any evidence. Unfortunately, there's a lot more than a paper trail involved here. Though they probably thought they'd be able to just "disappear" the kids into the system and not have to account for them.
I think 3,000 children are a lot more important than 33k e-mails. The kids are real. That there is anything damning in the e-mails is pure speculation.
Girard442
(6,059 posts)When you build concentration camps, you get the entire concentration camp package, even if you didn't explicily plan for it.
malaise
(267,797 posts)Lock them up
EricJohnson
(90 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)moments of egotistical self gratification. Of course he didn't factor in any consequences for ordering his government to kidnap and abuse children, there was no plan beyond the high he got from bragging to his cheering, slobbering fans about torturing brown people.
Look at the reports of the border patrol snatching kids away from their parents before they could make an official plea as refugees seeking asylum. Kids too young to speak, kids who only spoke indigenous dialects, were just sent off into juvenile detention with no means of identifying them or their parents.
atreides1
(16,046 posts)And his base will support no matter what he does or to whom he does it!!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What happened to that very detailed, meticulous database the administration claimed it had?
https://www.gq.com/story/trump-database-separated-children
Of course, that was nine days ago, which might as well be dated to the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls in this administration.
Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)but I don't believe they don't have meticulous records tracking every one of the separated family members.
They're keeping a ton of info on all of the asylum seekers. Like good nazis do.
in2herbs
(2,942 posts)and leave them there until all the children are returned to their parents.