Sen. Harris responds to claim immigrating parents don't want their children back

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10/23/2020 02:28 PM EDT
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Politico:

The Trump campaign’s communications director asserted on Friday that the reason some migrant families separated by the administration at the U.S. border have not been reunited is because the parents do not want their children back.

Multiple media outlets reported this week that the federal government remains unable to reach the parents of more than 500 children who were separated from their families after crossing the U.S. border, according to recent court filings. Speaking on CNN’s “New Day," Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said that while “it’s a regrettable situation, certainly,” the work of unifying these families with their loved ones is more complicated for Department of Homeland Security officials than has been portrayed publicly.

“The fact is it's not as simple as you make it sound or Joe Biden made it sound on the stage last night to locate the parents who are in other countries,” Trump campaign spokesman Murtaugh said. “And when they do locate them, it has been DHS’ experience that in many cases the parents do not want the children returned.”

Murtaugh also repeated that claim later in the interview with host John Berman.

“You have to locate the parents and when they are located in these other countries in many cases, John, the parents do not want the children sent back to them in their home countries.”

[Bantamfancier]

1. I think I understand why.

The parents have been kicked out.
The kids are still in the country that the parents wanted them to live in and grow up in.
They must be telling themselves at least our children made it.
That has got to be the most heart breaking decision those parents have made.

[Enterstageleft]

2. it must be true...

this administration has NEVER lied to us before.