Government never had specific plan to reunify families, court testimony shows

[Miles Archer]

Government never had specific plan to reunify families, court testimony shows

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/politics/family-separations-reunification-never-plan-court/index.html

Washington (CNN)In recent weeks, the government has stumbled trying to explain its plan for reunifying families in the wake of its much-criticized family separations policy at the border.

But newly reviewed court filings show that the byzantine system that has resulted in thousands of children separated for weeks and months from parents elsewhere in government custody was not an accident. It was always the design.

In fact, one of the women in an ongoing lawsuit over family separations was apparently one of the first separations that took place during a quiet pilot of the policy last year. The pilot program has been previously reported, but took on new attention on the heels of an NBC report about it Friday.

A government attorney admitted in court just days before the border-wide initiative was unveiled in early May that there was never a plan for parents like her to be proactively reunited with their kids.

[Rustynaerduwell]

1. To put it another way...

They never intended to.

[TomSlick]

2. To put it yet another way,

the children were kidnapped.

[pandr32]

3. Sheer evil