Trump..Argues It Could Be 'Traumatic' to Reunite Thousands of Migrant Children With Their Parents
good gawd! someone has to stop this cruel lunatic.
Trump Administration Argues It Could Be 'Traumatic' to Reunite Thousands of Migrant Children With Their Parents[/b
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-argues-it-could-be-traumatic-reunite-thousands-migrant-1316093
By Jason Lemon On 2/3/19 at 9:48 AM
Court filings by the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Department have argued that it could be “traumatic” to remove migrant children from sponsors homes and reunite them with their parents, suggesting that such action “would present grave child welfare concerns.”
“It would destabilize the permanency of their existing home environment, and could be traumatic to the children,” Jonathan White, who is in charge of the the department’s efforts to reunite the separated children with their parents, said in the filings, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The agency also suggested that the reunification would take extraordinary effort, arguing that the administration should simply focus on reuniting children being held in custody, not those released to sponsors.
President Donald Trump’s controversial policy to separate migrant children from their parents drew national and international outrage last year, with a federal court in June inevitably ordering the government to suspend the policy and reunite the impacted families. However, a report released by the Inspector General of the HHS in mid-January revealed that the administration did not even know how many thousands of children were separated and was struggling to account for those who had been released to sponsors prior to the court decision.
“Thousands of children may have been separated during an influx that began in 2017, before the accounting required by the court, and HHS has faced challenges in identifying separated children,” the report from the agency admitted.
The American Civil Liberties Union has slammed the Trump administration’s position. A hearing is scheduled for February 21 to determine whether the government will be required to reunite the children who were released before the June court order.
“The Trump administration’s response is a shocking concession that it can’t easily find thousands of children it ripped from parents, and doesn’t even think it’s worth the time to locate each of them,” Lee Gelernt, the lead ACLU attorney, said, according to the AP..........................
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A boy and father from Honduras are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico Border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas John Moore/Getty Images
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him put on the spot at the SOTU regarding the separation of these families.
This is NOT America - this is just the worst thing imaginable - and the idiot has done NOTHING to end it - fix it - put these families back together.
But he DID get to golf with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods! Bet those kids are happy for him..............
Betsy DeVos territory. They will be molded into good Christian children.
The whole mess is horrific.
