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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Trump administration wanted to separate *five times as many families* as they were able to
BREAKING: Trump administration wanted to separate *five times as many families* as they were able to before they were forced to stop.
That, despite being warned government computer systems werent set up to reunite families.
That, despite being warned government computer systems werent set up to reunite families.
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Trump admin projected it would separate 26,000 migrant kids at border, DHS watchdog says
A new DHS inspector general report also says the Trump administration knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their parents.
Nov. 27, 2019, 1:13 PM EST
By Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff
WASHINGTON The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found that the Trump administration anticipated it would separate 26,000 children if the "zero tolerance" policy of 2018 had been allowed to continue, and that the agency knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their parents.
Officials at Customs and Border Protection, the DHS agency responsible for separating families under the May-June 2018 policy, estimated in May of that year that it would separate more than 26,000 children by September, according to the report from the DHS Office of Inspector General, released publicly on Wednesday. After mounting pressure, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending the policy on June 20, 2018.
Previously, the administration has said in court that an estimated 2,800 children were separated as a result of zero tolerance. But the report released Wednesday said that the lack of technology to track which children had been separated meant the agency had to revise that estimate to 3,014.
In an earlier report, the inspector general's office found another 136 children with potential family relationships that had not been reported and an additional 1,233 children who had potentially been separated before separations began.
"Without a reliable account of all family relationships, we could not validate the total number of separations, or reunifications," the earlier report said.
More: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-projected-it-would-separate-26-000-migrant-kids-n1092571
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BREAKING: Trump administration wanted to separate *five times as many families* as they were able to (Original Post)
MelissaB
Nov 2019
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)1. Yeah, but I was under the assumption, the separations have
continued, even after the ruling.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)2. K&R for visibility. nt
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)3. Stephen Miller is a pox on this country.
He is clearly behind all of this horrible behavior.