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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration has separated hundreds of children from their migrant families since 2018
From the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to the Southern California coast, the Trump administration continues separating migrant families at rates that alarm immigration attorneys and advocates, even though a federal judge barred family separations as a systemic policy.
Separations have slowed significantly since a federal judge in San Diego ordered the administration to halt the practice in June 2018. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw allowed separations in rare, specific circumstances, and the Trump administration has exploited those openings at a worrying clip, according to groups that work with migrants along the border.
"We are alarmed," said Jennifer Nagda, policy director at the Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights, a Chicago-based national human rights group. "In March and April, we again saw a notable increase."
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Advocates at the Young Center's Harlingen, Texas, office said one in every five families they see at migrant shelters have been separated at the border for questionable reasons. The children ranged in age from 18 months to 15 years old.
Separations have slowed significantly since a federal judge in San Diego ordered the administration to halt the practice in June 2018. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw allowed separations in rare, specific circumstances, and the Trump administration has exploited those openings at a worrying clip, according to groups that work with migrants along the border.
"We are alarmed," said Jennifer Nagda, policy director at the Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights, a Chicago-based national human rights group. "In March and April, we again saw a notable increase."
Examples include:
Advocates at the Young Center's Harlingen, Texas, office said one in every five families they see at migrant shelters have been separated at the border for questionable reasons. The children ranged in age from 18 months to 15 years old.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/02/border-family-separations-trump-administration-border-patrol/3563990002/
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Trump administration has separated hundreds of children from their migrant families since 2018 (Original Post)
spanone
May 2019
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This is some impeachable shit ... who in the hell is working for these people and feel this is OK !?
uponit7771
May 2019
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uponit7771
(90,335 posts)1. This is some impeachable shit ... who in the hell is working for these people and feel this is OK !?
It's time to hold people who are carrying out this horrid shit and not saying anything accountable for their illegal actions
spanone
(135,831 posts)2. I'm at a loss. That we are doing this as a nation and as humans is at best disgusting.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)3. +1, time to hold the people who are separating the children responsible ... this is some shit here