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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Sun May 19, 2019, 01:30 AM May 2019

Maybe 1,700 or more additional children separated

May 18, 2019, 6:49 PM EDT
By Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley

The Trump administration has identified at least 1,712 migrant children it may have separated from their parents in addition to those separated under the “zero tolerance” policy, according to court transcripts of a Friday hearing.

U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the Trump administration to identify children separated before the zero tolerance policy went into effect in May 2018, resulting in the separation of over 2,800 children.

Sabraw previously ordered those migrant families to be reunited, but the additional children were identified more recently when the Inspector General for Health and Human Services estimated “thousands more” may have been separated before the policy was officially underway.

Other potentially separated migrant children could still be identified. The government has reviewed the files of 4,108 children out of 50,000 so far ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-700-additional-separated-migrant-children-identified-trump-administration-n1007426

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Maybe 1,700 or more additional children separated (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2019 OP
Sinnerman struggle4progress May 2019 #1
That must be John Kelly in action now that he's lunatica May 2019 #2
Unbelievable! Dry cleaners do a better job of tracking clothing. Arkansas Granny May 2019 #3

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
2. That must be John Kelly in action now that he's
Sun May 19, 2019, 03:37 AM
May 2019

on the board of the company running the children’s detention centers.

Arkansas Granny

(31,514 posts)
3. Unbelievable! Dry cleaners do a better job of tracking clothing.
Sun May 19, 2019, 04:41 AM
May 2019

It's like they never intended to reunite children and parents.

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