More than 2,500 immigrant kids are awaiting reunification with parents

[riversedge]

Source: cnn




Updated 9:00 PM ET, Fri July 13, 2018
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That number was revealed for the first time Friday as the government gave its first indications of how reunions of those thousands of parents and children could go.

There are about 2,551 kids age 5 and over in government custody who could be eligible for those reunions, officials wrote in a court filing Friday. The reunions of those children with their parents will occur in six to eight designated Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, according to the filing. And officials will use a new, streamlined vetting process to facilitate reunions by the court-ordered deadline of July 26, the filing says.


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The government noted that things will proceed differently for these reunions from the ones for the children under age 5, because of previous rulings in the ongoing lawsuit over family separations at the border and lessons learned from the earlier reunions, which numbered fewer than 60.

The new steps include not DNA-testing most of the parents and not background-checking every adult who will be living in the home with the reunified family.

Official warns of increased risk of child abuse

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/13/politics/separated-families-reunification-children/index.html

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Please help to keep the issue of child=parent separation in the forefront.

[Stuart G]

1. k and r..Trump is totally responsible for this..

[bronxiteforever]

2. Cheeto is using a weapon straight from Putin's playbook

As others before me have said, they never intended to unite the children.

[Hortensis]

3. We need to keep on this. And THERE WILL BE MORE.

Just one of Trump's plans in the works for persecuting immigrants involves taking citizenship away from naturalized citizens by such means as mining their applications for misrepresentations. Many of those will have children who may or may not be citizens but will be badly hurt either way.

Immigrants serving in the military as a means of becoming citizens are being tossed out, and some of those will have children who may or may not be citizens but will be badly hurt either way.

And other methods for persecuting immigrants are also being developed, and many of those will have children who may or may not be citizens but will be badly hurt either way.

The Trump administration has plans for building detention camps that'll hold over 100,000 people. That we know of.