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Where Are The Children?
May 26, 2018 7:27 am
Separated from their parents at the border, the Office of Refugee Resettlement reported at the end of 2017 that of the 7,000-plus children placed with "sponsored individuals", the agency did not know where 1,475 of them were. Frontline reports that some of them were placed with human traffickers.
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The Federal Government Lost 1,475 Immigrant Children
The figure raises concerns about the new child separation policy.
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America's missing children: Over 1,000 immigrant minors have vanished since October
The president of the border patrol union calls Trump's plan "a colossal waste of resources." But is that the point?
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The Department of Health and Human Services learned of the missing children only after calling people who took responsibility for the youths when they were released from government custody.
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Anguish at Southwest border as more immigrant children are separated from parents
"Wouldn't you feel anguish if they took your kids? I'd be going crazy. It's inhumane," said a public defender in McAllen, Texas.
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Parents, children ensnared in 'zero-tolerance' border prosecutions
Parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border with their children may be prosecuted in federal court in Tucson. Their children may end up in foster care.
Read more from Arizona Daily StarImmigrant advocates fear this prosecutorial policy “impedes asylum claims and lets the government use children as l… https://t.co/GE3JR7L3iZ
- Keegan Stephan (@KeeganNYC) May-24
This is just unspeakably awful - separating a father from his one year old son for four months. What have we become… https://t.co/2NXliRiYbx
- Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) May-24
“Subjected a 16-year-old girl to a search in which they ‘forcefully spread her legs and touched her private parts s… https://t.co/X2iYQSi46Q
- Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May-25
"Denied detained children permission to stand or move freely for days and threatened children who stood up with tra… https://t.co/iBgaacwlQk
- Rabbi Jill Zimmerman (@RabbiJill) May-24
IF YOU'RE JUST TUNING IN https://t.co/d3P7y2q3yJ
- Elizabeth M. (@_ElizabethMay) May-25
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The Trump administration says it separates immigrant families only when necessary to protect the child. But the government's own figures show this has happened in more than 700 cases.
Here's how the government managed to lose track of 1,500 migrant children https://t.co/ACpSDIRY55 https://t.co/AcQF1DTrhj
- Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May-25
Laura St. John of @FlorenceProject tells @chrislhayes U.S. government is separating children as young as 53 weeks o… https://t.co/LCUOr4N9NE
- All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) May-25
“Right now, we close the door, we rape you,” a Border Patrol agent reportedly told a 16-year-old detained immigrant… https://t.co/r4Yoc1QE1l
- VICE News (@vicenews) May-25
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Stop the Government from Abusing Immigrant Children
I'm fighting to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from abusing immigrant children. Will you join me?
Read more from action.aclu.org“Somewhere in Texas” “They placed 18 MONTH OLD in a federal shelter. Where? [his father] didn’t know. 3 mths later… https://t.co/gb85h6eDFc
- Gabriela Domenzain (@GabiDomenzain) May-25
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ACLU: Border agents physically abused migrant children
A blistering report released this week alleges that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents neglected and abused more than 100 migrant children who were in their custody.
Read more from TheHillThis transcript is hard reading. This is the ACLU lawyer pleading with the court. https://t.co/JWqKMdYTAa
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May-25
1,500 missing children, some of them given to human traffickers by the US Government. And it is Trump's POLICY to… https://t.co/AE7i9ZErS7
- Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) May-25
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HHS Official Says Agency Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Unaccompanied Minors
A top official from the Department of Health and Human Services came under fire in a congressional hearing on Thursday over how the agency tracks unaccompanied minors after they are released to family or other sponsors inside the United States.
Read more from FRONTLINE#WhereAreTheChildren Based on 30,000 pages of documents obtained through a records request, the report includes gru… https://t.co/ksgJiXWkSn
- ud83cudf37ud83dudc7dud83eudd81Essence of Lursaud83dudc1eud83dudc26ud83dudc3c (@KapeicaResists) May-25
Anyone who cares about humanity needs to watch this video to understand how horrific and unethical and inhumane it… https://t.co/IApedd9xXE
- Simran Jeet Singh (@SikhProf) 5:58 AM
ACLU: “As horrific a policy as I’ve seen in 25 yrs in civil rights." When a child's placed w/ a sponsor, “they ceas… https://t.co/bzXm3ySl3k
- ProfHelen (@Helenhs) 4:14 AM
Even if you’re not a parent, it isn’t hard to imagine the mind bending horror of your child being ripped from your… https://t.co/RFov6wCkKY
- Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) May-25
What is more shameful than forcibly separating, in America, parents from infant children at the border? And then, l… https://t.co/t5zOh9Tf15
- Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) May-25
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Hundreds of migrant children are being separated from parents - and US officials can't keep track
Federal officials were unable to find 1,475 migrant children who had been placed in foster homes in 2017.
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Analysis | Treatment and rhetoric about undocumented children put the Trump administration in a new category on hard-line immigration policy
Trump's comments about unaccompanied minors are increasingly raising concerns.
Read more from Washington PostAll the living First Ladies, including Melania, should make it an urgent cause to call on @POTUS to halt the monstr… https://t.co/Pl20Q1OG9n
- Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) 7:33 AM
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Science shows just how traumatizing it is to separate kids from parents at the US-Mexico border
Attachment theory explains that forced separations put kids' long-term development at risk.
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People Are Outraged Over What Trump's Chief Of Staff Said About Immigrant Children
The president's chief of staff has social media up in arms following a comment he made about separating immigrant kids from their mothers. When asked if it's "cruel and heartless" to separate them from their moms when arriving in the United States, J...
Read more from BustleThis is a big lie. 1) There is no law requiring children to be separated from parents. 2) Democrats are already ask… https://t.co/K2usemEQnl
- Daniel Dale (@ddale8) 8:33 AM
@waltshaub #WhereAreTheChildren Trump and the rest of the perpetrators of this will ultimately end up being tried i… https://t.co/iWUB4atlz2
- Jean King (@jdorrancfarnham)
10:35 AMWhen my parents got on a boat the day before Saigon fell, they didn’t know the rules. Int’l law or where borders we… https://t.co/3oQZikaJqO
- Jeannie Lin (@JeannieLin) May-24
The demagogue is gaslighting us. His administration adopted a brutal new policy that causes the mass separation of… https://t.co/7GsDQZcP3Y
- Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) 9:48 AM
This is a moral abomination, and a national shame. We’ll be covering it tonight. https://t.co/oJxREV5kA1
- Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May-25
“A twelve-year-old was asking me if I had the mental capacity to survive having my child taken hostage. It was the… https://t.co/Dq0A2Aicpe
- Sean Lavery (@SeanLavery) 7:55 AM
@realDonaldTrump Let me remind you of this press confrence by Jeff Sessions in regards to seperating children from… https://t.co/XDVQk9wRin
- Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) 8:22 AM
Good morning @RepMcCaul. I know it’s a holiday weekend but as chair of the House cmtee that oversees the Dept of Ho… https://t.co/Ka5bnLVod1
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) 7:44 AM
This is why separating immigrant families is so irresponsible. These missing kids could end up in the hands of huma… https://t.co/XqR3e31llk
- Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) 9:15 AM
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Your Administration made the policy change to separate children from their parents. If you d… https://t.co/KHHkV08RF4
- Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) 10:01 AM
Everyone's assuming Trump just made up a law requiring separation of children. The truth is worse. His DOJ is argui… https://t.co/VBIhMygNKM
- Deepak Gupta (@deepakguptalaw) 10:49 AM
“Horrible law” = not a law. It’s Trump administration policy that didn’t happen under Obama or Bush. POTUS has the… https://t.co/pQyjOkm60U
- Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) 8:27 AM
I have been a foster and adoptive parent for 15 years. Removing children from parents causes permanent psychologica… https://t.co/8WcO0xfYKo
- Amy Levy (@amyrileylevy) 11:48 AM
I have always thought that one of the most horrific aspects of U.S. slavery was the forced separation of parents fr… https://t.co/wK0sL5OBo5
- Tananarive Due (@TananariveDue) May-25
Maybe it’s just me but I think government operation that “loses” children should be shut down until we figure out what the hell is going on.
- Schooley (@Rschooley) May-25
A powerful analysis of the Trump administration’s horrific treatment of immigrant children https://t.co/2zjIkRMR6T
- Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) 12:05 PM
The fact that there is as of now no massive, bipartisan national outrage at the separation of little kids from the… https://t.co/rlEIvlOSeh
- Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) May-25
Terrified children are being separated from their parents pursuant to your Administration’s policy, Mr. President.… https://t.co/zxZCQZzzrs
- Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) 2:55 PM
Anguish at Southwest border as more immigrant children are separated from parents "Wouldn't you feel anguish if th… https://t.co/VGiHpkwPeW
- Blue #DemForce (@SolidBlue2018) 7:21 PM
Kindly, do not lecture me about being all about family values and family unity, if you are ok with families being t… https://t.co/2Ee36otIb8
- Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) 4:36 PM
Trump on Abused Immigrant Children: "They're Not Innocent" https://t.co/IkLgMSNj8y
- Angela Shenk (@AngelaShenk) 8:13 PM
Imagine government agents taking your crying 18 month old child. You’re forced to watch a car drive away with him,… https://t.co/G3bjeLWtT1
- ACLU (@ACLU) May-26
Kamala Harris calls for Trump officials to testify on policy separating migrant parents and children at border… https://t.co/1l7E6xjxMU
- The Hill (@thehill) May-26
Sen Harris pressed DHS Sec Nielsen last week on Trump Admin's despicable policy of separating undocumented immigran… https://t.co/dilTxPbGAU
- Tyrone Gayle (@TyroneGayle) May-26
Pretty sure this isn’t how to make America great https://t.co/OEdrtD3Ya6
- West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) 6:29 AM
Separating a father from his toddler – and refusing to tell him where is 18-month-old son had been placed – is an a… https://t.co/NOnQyGc2QJ
- National Immigration Forum (@NatImmForum) May-25
We are truly on the precipice of moral collapse. Where is the bipartisan news conf demanding suspension of parent/c… https://t.co/49Ln9ha0mI
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) May-25
This is vile and unforgivable. No matter one's views on immigration policy, what kind of conscience allows a person… https://t.co/ZWTCKS5n6J
- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May-26
I keep seeing the words “not legally responsible “ but you ARE responsible as decent human beings. Get your shit to… https://t.co/Dul2VucL2s
- Amy Davis Roth (@SurlyAmy) 10:43 AM
The federal government refers to these kids as "unaccompanied alien children," or UACs https://t.co/gUAEyDHur6
- Washington Post (@washingtonpost) 6:05 PM
What. The. Hell? https://t.co/yXtPgl1njp
- Raw Story (@RawStory) 9:44 AM
Everyone, there’s no need to worry, the private prison company running ICE detention facilities has a special priso… https://t.co/Q88O8M3kK6
- ashley yates (@brownblaze) 2:03 PM