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How does one lose almost 1,500 children?
Last month, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the administration for children and families (ACF), announced at a Senate hearing that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement which is to say, an office he oversees was unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 children between October and December.
As Mother Jones reports:
The Trump administration is seeking to criminally prosecute everyone who crosses the US-Mexico border, including parents. The policy is likely to separate thousands of families who arrive at the border by placing parents into the criminal justice system. Without their parents, children will be placed into the custody of ORR.
In March, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration for forcibly removing young children from their parents who are awaiting asylum hearings. The class action lawsuit claims the practice by government agencies of separating young children from their families violates the Due Process Clause and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The lawsuit represents a proposed class of hundreds of individuals whose minor children have already been taken from them.
MSNBCs Chris Hayes tweeted excerpts from the lawsuit on Friday, pointing to one case in particular a mother who said she has not seen her 18-month-old son since he was taken from her a month before a moral abomination, and a national shame. Friday evening, Hayes dedicated a segment of All In to what he called Trumps despicable policy and its affect on families who come to the United States seeking asylum so, as Hayes points out, not trying to sneak in.
https://thinkprogress.org/as-ice-separates-children-from-parents-at-the-border-public-outrage-grows-c624e69cd43f/
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Imagined.
RockRaven
(14,782 posts)Why? Because Trump is THAT MUCH of a coward. He can't even say "yeah, I did it, so what?" when questioned by a reporter, while he gladly takes credit for it at a friendly campaign rally. Not just a moral monster, but a weakling too.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)No matter how much they try to justify it.
Demsrule86
(68,347 posts)spanone
(135,627 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hate to think of what those families must be going through, especially the children. They must be terrified.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)it's over. America is over.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...which is hardly a surprise to anybody...
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)C Moon
(12,188 posts)Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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TDale313
(7,820 posts)This is meant to send a message that we will steal your children from you permanently- and they will likely be subjected to unspeakable horrors- if we catch you trying to immigrate illegally- particularly if you are a person of color. Its sickening, and thats the point. We have lost our soul as a country.