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 administrations controversial efforts to deter border crossings by separating migrant families. House Democrats whove condemned the separations as inhumane have vowed to investigate the administrations 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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2naSalit
(86,650 posts)I have the same thoughts
Ink Addict
(36 posts)https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/trump-administration-briefings-reveal-no-plan-to-reunite-children-before
So helpful to coyotes, those Russians: "We talked about adoptions." ???
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Trump is helping out his friends that need new product.
Hate That Son-Of-A-Bitch.
riversedge
(70,245 posts)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.
secondwind
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(90,773 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican lies are toxic for America and the world
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republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
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republican lies are toxic for America and the world
republican lies are toxic for America and the world
Bayard
(22,103 posts)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)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.
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)My God.
red dog 1
(27,820 posts)Ohiogal
(32,011 posts)This is sickening. Their cruelty knows no bounds.
I can't believe this is happening in America in the year 2019. Just sickening......
akraven
(1,975 posts)Their villainy has no end.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)and paid by taxpayers.
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup