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Trump-Has Taken At Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially ENDED
The Government Has Taken At Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially Ended
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/09/family-separation-policy-lawsuit/
John Washington December 9 2019, 9:56 a.m.
You cant imagine the pain, Dennis said. If youre not a dad, you dont know what its like. I reached Dennis by phone in a small town in the Copán Department of Honduras, where he lives with his wife and three children. For five months this year, the family was fractured across borders. Sonia, age 11, had been separated from Dennis after they crossed into the United States and turned themselves in to the Border Patrol to ask for asylum. Dennis was deported from Texas, and Sonia sent to a shelter in New York.
The U.S. government is still taking children from their parents after they cross the border. Since the supposed end of family separation in the summer of 2018, after a federal judges injunction and President Donald Trumps executive order reversing the deeply controversial policy more than 1,100 children have been taken from their parents, according to the governments own data. There may be more, since that data has been plagued by bad record keeping and inconsistencies. The government alleges that separations now only happen when a parent has a criminal history or is unfit to care for a child, but an ongoing lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the current policy still violates the rights of children and families. Border Patrol agents, untrained in child welfare, make decisions that some parents are unfit to stay with their children based solely on brief interactions with them while they are held in custody.
Dennis picks coffee during the harvest season and works other basic jobs when he can, but he struggles to put food on the table and pay for his kids school supplies. In April, unable to find steady work in the coffee fields and receiving regular threats from a creditor, he headed north, hoping to find safety and opportunity in the United States. We were barely eating. I couldnt give my kids a life, Dennis told me. (He preferred that I only use first names for him and his family due to safety concerns.) Thinking that his two boys ages 2 1/2 and 7 were too young to travel, Dennis took Sonia and together they left Honduras. They trekked through Guatemala and Mexico by bus, train, and on foot. They were robbed once, terrified the whole way, and had to beg for food. They slept wherever they could sometimes in the woods, along the tracks, or, when they could scrounge enough money together, in migrant flophouses.
After about a month of travel, Dennis and Sonia crossed the Rio Grande in a small raft outside of McAllen, Texas, on the morning of May 17. They walked for hours before they turned themselves in to a Border Patrol agent and were taken to a processing center, where they were locked up in one of the freezing-cold temporary holding centers known as hieleras, or iceboxes. Only a few hours later, a Border Patrol agent took Dennis and Sonia and locked them in separate rooms. It was the last time he would see his daughter for five months...............................................
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Trump-Has Taken At Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially ENDED (Original Post)
riversedge
Dec 2019
OP
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. We are seeing a redux
of the Historical similiar events of the late 1800's and the so called Anglo-Saxoning of the Native American Children by Politicians and Churches.
Same shit just a new day. Where are these Kids?