Most deported migrants were not asked about leaving children behind, Trump official says

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



That lapse is likely to complicate reunifications one day ahead of a court-ordered deadline to return most migrant children to their parents.

By TED HESSON, RENUKA RAYASAM and DAN DIAMOND 07/25/2018 09:43 PM EDT Updated 07/26/2018 07:18 AM EDT

Homeland Security officials may have neglected to give a choice to as many as three-quarters of all migrant parents removed from the United States about leaving their children behind, contradicting repeated public assurances from Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

The Trump administration failed to document consent in most such cases, an administration official told POLITICO. That lapse increased the number of departed parents whom officials must now find and contact about whether they wish to be reunited with their children, and, if so, figure out the logistics of how to bring them together. The revelation threatens to delay reunifications and renews questions about the administration’s original intent one day ahead of a court-ordered deadline to return most migrant children to their parents.

That migrant parents gave consent to leave their children behind has been a key talking point for Trump administration officials defending the deportations. Over the course of several months, thousands of migrant parents and children were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under the administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

"All of these adults who left without their kids left based on a decision to leave their children," Nielsen said July 19 at a national security forum. "The parents always have the choice to take the children with them," Nielsen repeated to Fox News on Tuesday. "These are parents who have made the decision not to bring the children with them."

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/25/deported-migrants-leaving-children-behind-712088

[lark]

1. Their intent is to hurt and to grift, pretty much like always.

They gleefully hurt the asylum seekers because they are brown and poor, torturing both the children and their parents. They are also paying $700/day per child and not mandating any care, not even for the babies. They make the other older child prisoners take care of the babies when they themselves are so distraught and needy. Anyway, think about $700/day how much DeVos and drumpf (you know he's getting some of this action or he wouldn't be doing this in the first place) are making from us taxpayers to torture terrified needy brown folks. This is such a win/win in their eyes, they are doing everything inhumanly possible to keep their gravy torture train going. The only thing that I question is why they put some of these children in foster homes and won't reunite them on that basis? If this a child slavery thing, selling t hem to big donors, WTF is going on with this. Given drumpfs background with raping a 13 year old girl and being best friends for decades with a person who was convicted of having sex parties with underage girls, it's really scary.

[haele]

3. My guess - the babies and younger children are being adopted/sold to good "Christian" homes;

Half the girls over 12 will probably be fostered out - and end up as "help" to other good "Christian" homes, the other half - the prettier ones - will just "disappear" somewhere in the system until they're old enough to be deported as adults.

The boys over 12 will all be labeled "MS-13" unaccompanied minors and sent directly to the juvie farms - the "foster center, juvenile rehabilitation, and agricultural/light manufacturing skills training centers" in red states as part of the unpaid contracted workforce system beloved by corporate investment interests.
And then they'll be deported once they're too old to work as juveniles.
Or they'll just be deported.

That's the pretty much the GOP plan as I see it. Immigrant kids are commodities; the babies and cute children are cute toys, and when they're too old to be cute anymore, can be good free household workers for the family if "raised right".
Get the most money - and work - off them while they're young enough to need to be "cared for" by the system, then just deport them as undocumented criminals once they're adults and might demand a wage and benefits.

Haele

[Bayard]

2. Does anyone really believe....

That these people were asked whether they wanted to desert their kids to kidnappers? And they said yes?

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R