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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children-idUSKBN16A2ESExclusive: Trump administration considering separating women, children at Mexico border
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON
Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials.
Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.
The policy shift would allow the government to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum hearings. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of Health and Human Services, in the "least restrictive setting" until they can be taken into the care of a U.S. relative or state-sponsored guardian.
Currently, families contesting deportation or applying for asylum are generally released from detention quickly and allowed to remain in the United States until their cases are resolved. A federal appeals court ruling bars prolonged child detention.
President Donald Trump has called for ending "catch and release," in which migrants who cross illegally are freed to live in the United States while awaiting legal proceedings.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children-idUSKBN16A2ES
greatauntoftriplets
(175,752 posts)Sounds like what they did at slave markets.
Kber
(5,043 posts)It's a feature.
unblock
(52,331 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Heartless mofo.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Many remember how that worked out with the Native Americans and there are still Law Suites going today against the Mormon Church regarding care and treatment of Ute Children. Remember the Catholic Church and their Indian Schools? I do,and it was not pretty as to the out comes .
It did not work and It will not work. BTW,this whole f---n Border thing is being driven by the two Border and ICE union Bosses who supported Trump.
mopinko
(70,239 posts)have a mass grave for dead babies like the irish homes?
full disclosure, full blooded irish recovered catholic.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)leftstreet
(36,116 posts)FFS
MissB
(15,812 posts)babylonsister
(171,094 posts)tableturner
(1,684 posts)In a few days the Trump group will say that this report, which they probably planted, was false. They hope that in the meantime, it will obviate to some degree the attention now being paid to Russia. That strategy is losing effectiveness due to the public's increasing worry about the increasingly serious Russia scandal, and because the strategy is being over used to the point that everybody can see right through their efforts to put out their own bizarre fake news.
mcar
(42,376 posts)I'm disgusted by these fcking hypocrites. They are all about "life" but treat people like stray dogs.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)And Trump likes what he sees.
mcar
(42,376 posts)0rganism
(23,971 posts)it's not like this kind of brutality hasn't happened here before
in the slave markets, the native relocations and "Indian Schools", the internment camps of WW2...
difference is, now it's visible to us, happening here and now, not in some distant past or faraway place
we all made a huge mistake thinking it couldn't happen here again -- human nature can change over time, but it hasn't changed enough just yet. somehow going forward we need to remember this and do what we can to address its causes, not just wipe a hand across our foreheads saying "glad that's all behind us now".
if we survive, that is
spanone
(135,886 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Children are not complete. They are not structured like adults. They live within the crucible of a family and their health, development and ability to overcome trauma depends on the relative stability of that crucible. Being taken from your mother while in the middle of a strange place, stress, exhaustion, illness, potential abuse and a host of things changes the structures of brains and personalities. Often those changes are disastrous.
He can't. He just can't.
Warpy
(111,359 posts)That's what this gang of Russian mobster pawns seem to have as their real goal.
This is cruel and inhumane.
We have to get rid of these men ASAP or the rest of the world will do it for us.
mopinko
(70,239 posts)is to hang more than a couple of these nazis from the washington monument on the 4th of july.
even at that, it remain a stain on the very idea of democracy.
dlk
(11,578 posts)Looking back at all of the flack Hillary received for using the word deplorable, she actually made a gross understatement.
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)northoftheborder
(7,574 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)lapfog_1
(29,226 posts)and these bastards will have created Magneto.
Stinky The Clown
(67,819 posts). . . . until you realize it is more than imaginable.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)And absolutely heart breaking. I know kids are resilient but this sort of practice does irreparable psychological harm. This is unnecessarily cruel. The motive is profit and to whiten America. It only makes ICE's job more difficult. Not only is it inhumane, it is fiscally ineffective.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)We can't let this happen to our country and minorities, this is all Bannon the Leninist.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)I don't see a way.
Such people are completely alien to me.