Clock ticks toward reuniting families separated at border
Source: AP
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) The Trump administration faced a court-imposed deadline Thursday to reunite thousands of children and parents who were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, an enormous logistical task brought on by its zero tolerance policy on illegal entry.
Authorities have identified 2,551 children 5 and older who may be covered by the order to be reunited with their parents by Thursdays court-imposed deadline. That effort was expected to fall short, partly because hundreds of parents may have already been deported without their children.
But, by focusing only those deemed by the government to be eligible for reunification, authorities expected claim success.
As of Tuesday, there were 1,012 parents reunified with their children in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Hundreds more had been cleared and were just waiting on transportation.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told members of Congress on Wednesday that the administration was on track to meet the deadline, an assertion that was greeted with disbelief and anger by the all-Democrat Congressional Hispanic Caucus, according to people who attended. Nielsen declined to comment to reporters as she left the closed-door meeting...............................
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csziggy
(34,120 posts)To reunite families separated at the border.
The judge needs to slap the people responsible with the maximum penalties for violating the order. This administration made extraordinary efforts to tear refugee families apart but have made the minimal effort to reunite them.
Every single person in the chain that allowed these cruel measures and that have resisted the judge's order from Trump down to the border and HHS agents should have penalties against.
lark
(23,003 posts)He's let them slide time and again and they are pretty much ignoring him by deporting parents and leaving the children here on purpose. I wish they had a much better judge who wouldn't tolerate their deliberate child kidnapping and torturing or given realities, that this one would find his spine, call them on their BS and make them find the parents. Fine the government officials responsible, hold them in contempt and jail them - that will get the reunifications done faster because not one of these asses has one oz of courage.
dalton99a
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(6,797 posts)and even if it isn't done no one is going to suffer any consequences.
DFW
(54,056 posts)Put Nielsen behind bars until the court order is carried out.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)There are over 1,500 kids still not reunited and the govt is STILL not trying to unite them. I just saw a volunteer who went to the border and she said that nothing has changed. She learned that the ICE agents are telling the children that their parents GAVE THEM AWAY on purpose! She said that this is mental and emotional abuse and the parents should be given citizenship or at least an immigration hearing as a form of apology for doing this to the families, that is if they can even find the parents.