U.S. says all eligible young migrant children have been reunited with parents
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-judge/u-s-says-all-eligible-young-migrant-children-reunited-with-parents-idUSKBN1K218Y?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+(News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News)
The Trump administration said on Thursday it had reunited all eligible young migrant children with their parents after they had been separated when crossing the U.S.-Mexico border,
two days after a court-imposed deadline.
But nearly half - 46 of the 103 children under the age of 5 who were placed in government care - remain separated because of safety concerns, the deportation of their parents
and other issues, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The administration had been required late last month by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego to reunite families separated under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance
immigration policy to prosecute all adults entering the country illegally.
Those separations occurred between early May and June 20 when Trump signed an executive order halting them. The Republican president had been facing a backlash for the policy,
which some critics called a national disgrace.
Sabraw on June 26 ordered reunifications for children under age 5 by July 10, and for more than 2,000 older children by July 26. He gave the administration until 3 p.m. PDT (2200
GMT) Thursday to update him on its progress. The judge issued his order in connection with a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the separations.
In a statement, the ACLU criticized the government’s failure to meet the July 10 deadline, and said it was deciding what remedies Sabraw should impose.
“If in fact 57 children have been reunited because of the lawsuit, we could not be more happy for those families,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the civil rights group. “But make no
mistake about it: the government missed the deadline even for these 57 children,” he added.
Sabraw’s June 26 order contained exceptions for parents deemed unfit or a danger to their children. Both sides were expected to return to court on Friday to map out how to reunite
other families.
“The reunification process has been chaotic and has unequivocally come at a cost,” Beth Krause, a supervising lawyer at the Legal Aid Society’s Immigrant Youth Project, said in a
statement.
Not all families separated at the border entered the country illegally.
Wait for this to be completely false
If the trump administration is willing to lie about the size of a crowd I have no reason to believe them on actually important matters.
I don't see why they would lie since it would be found out and they would get btfo by the courts and ACLU.
you're talking about an Administration that is nothing but lies...
watch them do it anyway
Keyword: Eligible. Plenty are still separated due to health concerns, nebulous “serious criminal histories”, jailed or deported.
So their statement of ALL ELIGIBLE CHILDREN is to spin a narrative to trump up (heh) good PR.
While good that some have been returned, shit’s still fucked beyond reason.
This is why I miss the optimistic rating.
@programmer I don't get the baby rating here, is children separated from parents not a serious matter to you here???
It’s just a negative rating bombing run some users do in politics. Just ignore them.
It just shows the absolute infantile priorities people have
Could be a misclick. This is why you'd get banned caring about ratings on oldpunch, it completely derails the thread.
Ratings are changeable. Also rating something is just as valid as a post, albeit more lazy, you're still giving out your opinion on a topic. It's not derailing because it's on topic, and tbh this hasn't exactly been a long conversation about it
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Don't forget willing to lie about the death count from a hurricane.
I you say so lol.
Excluding the children who should've never been deported or taken from their family to begin with, of course. Because why care about American citizens' children being wrongly deported so long as they share anything like a similar skin tone or family name?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-young-american-child-may-be-among-thousands-detained-near-border/
Of course it is, they've lied SO MUCH. Every day. With stuff anyone can easily check and see is a lie. Basically, just take anything the Turmp admin says, then pretend it's opposite day, and presto, you have the truth
And some are separated simply because the government doesn't know who the child's parents are, they didn't record that information when taking them away and deporting the parent(s), and the child is too young to identify them by anything but 'mama'.
The lives of hundreds of families whose primary crime was trying to seek a better life in a supposedly better country have been ruined so the President could dog whistle to his racist voter base for job approval asspats.
Fucking. Inhumane. Monsters.
The multibillion dollar cost of reuniting these children via paternity tests or any other viable method should be gouged out of ICE's budget.
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