Admin projected separating 26,000 migrant kids at border

[struggle4progress]

Nov. 27, 2019, 1:13 PM EST
By Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff

WASHINGTON — The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found the Trump administration anticipated it would separate 26,000 children if the "zero tolerance" policy of 2018 had been allowed to continue, and that the agency knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their parents.

Officials at Customs and Border Protection, the DHS agency responsible for separating families under the May-June 2018 policy, estimated in May of that year that it would separate more than 26,000 children by September, according to the report from the DHS Office of Inspector General, released publicly on Wednesday. After mounting public pressure, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending the policy on June 20, 2018.

Previously, the administration has said in court that an estimated 2,800 children were separated as a result of zero tolerance. But the report released Wednesday said that the lack of technology to track which children had been separated meant the agency had to revise that estimate to 3,014.

In an earlier report, the inspector general's office found another 136 children with potential family relationships that had not been reported and an additional 1,233 children who had potentially been separated before separations began ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-projected-it-would-separate-26-000-migrant-kids-n1092571

[hedda_foil]

1. The real question is what did they plan to do with that many vulnerable children?

Am I the only one who is just waiting to find out about the death camps -- or is that going too far?

[struggle4progress]

2. That "the agency knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their parents"

says enough

We may presume people intend the foreseeable consequences of their acts

And so in this case, it is simply a fact that they intended to permanently separate huge numbers of children from their parents

[EleanorR]

3. he'd planned on enriching the owners of the detention camps

26,000 kids at $775 a day equals $20,150,000.