HHS secretary says Trump administration rushing to reunite migrant families separated at the border

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Maria Sacchetti
July 5 at 1:25 PM

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that officials are racing against a federal judge’s “extreme” deadlines to reunite “under 3,000” migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S. border.

Azar did not provide a precise number of children who have been separated from their parents under the Trump administration, but he said hundreds of government employees are working verify that information, including through DNA testing. The children are being held in shelters overseen by HHS. Their,parents are in federal immigration jails.

Azar signaled that, once reunited, the families will likely remain together in the Department of Homeland Security’s custody to await asylum interviews or deportation hearings.

U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw last week ordered the Trump administration to reunite parents and children by July 26. The ruling stemmed from,a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/hhs-secretary-says-trump-administration-rushing-to-reunite-migrant-families-separated-at-the-border/2018/07/05/70da04f2-8062-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html

[lagomorph777]

1. Trump is rushing to hold his little hostages as long as possible.

...or sell them into the sex trade before anybody can find them.

[Leghorn21]

5. A thought I had last night, lago: there will be a shortage of people to harvest crops in the USA

now, right (I thought last year’s harvests would all rot in the fields and cause food shortages, but it didn’t seem to happen)

At any rate, what’s to stop this regime from supplying virtual slave labor to orchards and fields that need harvesting?

At this point, NOTHING.

And people like me would never know

It’s unbearable, I know, it’s not bearable

[lagomorph777]

6. Yup - just like the Antebellum South: boys sold into the fields, girls into the master's bed.

[Leghorn21]

2. YOU BETTER BE WORKING 24/7, ALEX AZAR

THERE’S NOT ONE FUCKING MINUTE TO SPARE HERE

motherfuckers

[Maeve]

3. Uh-huh. Sure. We. All. Believe. You.

Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

[forgotmylogin]

4. Good.

He better work.

[duforsure]

7. Yet they refuse to prove anything

They're saying or doing. Another con job.

[dhill926]

8. uh huh.....and a pig just flew by my window....

[old guy]

9. Liar.

[Snellius]

10. "Rushing"? Good thing they're not firefighters. The fire they started.

[Snellius]

11. Last time HHS said the number of children was just over 2,000. Now it's under 3,000

But a few more kids give or take a thousand or so. "I don't really care, do U?"