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demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:56 AM Jan 2019

Trump administration separated thousands more migrants than previously known

Source: Politico

The Trump administration separated thousands more migrant kids at the border than it previously acknowledged, and the separations began months before the policy was announced, according to a federal audit released Thursday morning.

"More children over a longer period of time" were separated at the border than commonly known, an investigator with the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general told reporters Thursday morning. "How many more children were separated is unknown, by us and HHS."

The report sheds new light on the Trump administration’s controversial efforts to deter border crossings by separating migrant families. House Democrats who’ve condemned the separations as inhumane have vowed to investigate the administration’s handling of the policy and its health effects on separated children.

The first separations began in 2017 and were seen as a trial balloon for the “zero-tolerance” policy announced by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in May 2018, an HHS official told POLITICO.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/17/report-trump-administration-migrants-1093242




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Trump administration separated thousands more migrants than previously known (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2019 OP
Smells like a human trafficking operation...nt 2naSalit Jan 2019 #1
+1000 Pachamama Jan 2019 #3
And per Congressional oversight hearing, there was no plan to reunite the families. Ink Addict Jan 2019 #11
Exactly. DURHAM D Jan 2019 #8
Watchdog: Thousands more migrant children separated from parents than previously known riversedge Jan 2019 #2
Oh my god, there is no end to his cruelty. He has no bottom. secondwind Jan 2019 #4
K&R Solly Mack Jan 2019 #5
...and then republicans lied to America about it Achilleaze Jan 2019 #6
Well, they're not in the group in cages on the border Bayard Jan 2019 #7
And WHERE ARE THE GIRLS??? 2naSalit Jan 2019 #9
Kick dalton99a Jan 2019 #10
Back to the top UpInArms Jan 2019 #12
I'm getting physically ill reading this article Recursion Jan 2019 #13
Kick red dog 1 Jan 2019 #14
Good Lord. Ohiogal Jan 2019 #15
This misAdministration, these "people" who are sub-human have NO BOTTOM. akraven Jan 2019 #16
child trafficking sanctioned by US government AlexSFCA Jan 2019 #17
Vile inhuman swine jpak Jan 2019 #18
There's going to be a whole cesspool of shit revealed about this administration. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 #19

riversedge

(70,245 posts)
2. Watchdog: Thousands more migrant children separated from parents than previously known
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 12:00 PM
Jan 2019

Keep this up in front please.


Watchdog: Thousands more migrant children separated from parents than previously known



https://thehill.com/latino/425828-watchdog-thousands-more-migrant-children-separated-from-parents-than-previously-known
By Nathaniel Weixel - 01/17/19 10:53 AM EST


The Trump administration separated thousands more migrant children from their parents than was previously known, according to a government watchdog.

According to a Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General report, thousands of children may have been separated from their parents during an influx that began in 2017, including many separations months before the policy was announced.

HHS has reunited thousands of children identified in a federal lawsuit, but there are many more who were separated before that point, and the total number is unknown, according to the report.

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This developing report will be updated.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
6. ...and then republicans lied to America about it
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 12:07 PM
Jan 2019

republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world

Bayard

(22,103 posts)
7. Well, they're not in the group in cages on the border
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 12:11 PM
Jan 2019

Someone would have noticed ten times what they said. So yes, human trafficking.....labor, field hands, domestic and industrial workers, sex slaves.

Come on House Investigation and ACLU!

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
9. And WHERE ARE THE GIRLS???
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 12:18 PM
Jan 2019

All the footage I see of these people being abused at these sites are of young men and boys, no adults, no girls of any age. I think they are selling the girls and I think there's a link that is a straight line from Epstein to the crime family in office.


Ohiogal

(32,011 posts)
15. Good Lord.
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 01:59 PM
Jan 2019

This is sickening. Their cruelty knows no bounds.

I can't believe this is happening in America in the year 2019. Just sickening......

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