***DON'T LET UP YET! Those hundreds of babies and toddlers will REMAIN in their warehouses***
WITHOUT their mothers and fathers. And so will the the rest of the thousands of separated children.
And they are not telling reporters WHEN they will stop separating families.
Please keep up the pressure on all your Representatives and Senators, and tell everyone you know!
ON UPDATE: It just occurred to me that when they separated the parents and children, they gave the children the status of "unaccompanied minors" -- the same as if they were teens who crossed the border by themselves. And there has never been a mechanism for reuniting those children with their parents. That's why they don't have a system already set up for reuniting these babies. Oh. My. God.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=67181914&pgtype=Homepage
And a Health and Human Services official said that more than 2,300 children who have already been separated from their parents under the president’s “zero tolerance” policy will not be immediately reunited with their families while the adults remain in federal custody during their immigration proceedings.
“There will not be a grandfathering of existing cases,” said Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
SNIP
The president’s four-page order says that officials will continue to criminally prosecute everyone who crosses the border illegally, but will seek to find or build facilities that can hold families — parents and children together — instead of separating them while their legal cases are considered by the courts.
But the action raised new questions that White House officials did not immediately answer. The order does not say where the families would be detained. And it does not say whether children will continue to be separated from their parents while the facilities to hold them are located or built.
Officials on a White House conference call said they could not answer those questions.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17443198/children-immigrant-families-separated-parents
Dozens of parents are being split from their children each day — the children labeled “unaccompanied minors” and sent to government custody or foster care, the parents labeled criminals and sent to jail.
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