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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS border authorities have dumped 200+ Central American children unaccompanied into Mexico.
U.S. border authorities have been expelling migrant children from other countries into Mexico, violating a diplomatic agreement with Mexico and testing the limits of immigration and child welfare laws.
The expulsions, laid out in a sharply critical internal email from a senior Border Patrol official, have taken place under an aggressive border closure policy the Trump administration has said is necessary to prevent the coronavirus from spreading into the United States. But they conflict with the terms upon which the Mexican government agreed to help implement the order, which were that only Mexican children and others who had adult supervision could be pushed back into Mexico after attempting to cross the border.
The expulsions put children from countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador at risk by sending them with no accompanying adult into a country where they have no family connections. Most appear to have been put, at least at first, into the care of Mexican child welfare authorities, who oversee shelters operated by religious organizations and other private groups.
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Trump really needs a cell at the ICC. Horrific child abuse.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)just disgusting.
Nevilledog
(51,012 posts)luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Unbelievable
elleng
(130,732 posts)Children from Central America are being sent by the U.S. to Mexico, where they may have no family to retrieve them. An internal email said the transfers violated the governments own policies.
U.S. border authorities have been expelling migrant children from other countries into Mexico, violating a diplomatic agreement with Mexico and testing the limits of immigration and child welfare laws.
The expulsions, laid out in a sharply critical internal email from a senior Border Patrol official, have taken place under an aggressive border closure policy the Trump administration has said is necessary to prevent the coronavirus from spreading into the United States. But they conflict with the terms upon which the Mexican government agreed to help implement the order, which were that only Mexican children and others who had adult supervision could be pushed back into Mexico after attempting to cross the border.
The expulsions put children from countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador at risk by sending them with no accompanying adult into a country where they have no family connections. Most appear to have been put, at least at first, into the care of Mexican child welfare authorities, who oversee shelters operated by religious organizations and other private groups.
The expulsions, which appear to number more than 200 over the past eight months, reflect the haphazard nature with which many of the administrations most aggressive immigration policies have been introduced. In many cases, they have led to the shuffling of young children between U.S. government agencies and now, between the governments of countries that are not their own. For years now, the Trump administrations handling of migrant children has left members of families separated for months on end and unable to reach one another.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/migrant-children-expulsions-mexico.html
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)The monsters doing all this may claim they are Americans, but they are not. They are the enemy within.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,257 posts)Response to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #6)
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uponit7771
(90,302 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)to guess. Just too horrible to contemplate.
crickets
(25,952 posts)It's ignoring them, along with any sense of decency. I hope someone is keeping good records of those who ordered and those performed these acts. When the time comes, "I was just following orders" will not be an acceptable defense.
C_U_L8R
(44,989 posts)There's going to be a lot of paper shredding and obfuscation as the criminal magats run for cover.
tinrobot
(10,886 posts)Volaris
(10,266 posts)'Kids? What kids?. Theres no kids...clearly the Totally Not Kid-cages are totally empty, what's the problem?'
BannonsLiver
(16,306 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I will stay here and do everything I can to change it until it is my country.
In the mean time, lock these criminals into cages - for life. How can anyone, living here, live with this?
This is sick.
Everyone doing tRumps bidding needs a very long prison sentence - life.
Lock him up.
(6,920 posts)LOCK.EM.ALL.UP
llmart
(15,533 posts)the treatment of the children of immigrants is what will remain with me forever. That image of the little girl with the red shoes on the cover of Time haunts me to this day.
It sickens me to even say I live in this country. That criminal squatting in our White House deserves so much more than impeachment. I will reserve my stating exactly what I think he and his enablers deserve.
That goes for the hateful wife too.
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)We need stocks to come back into use. Set them up in Lafayette Square. As many as needed to accommodate all actors in this shameful border debacle.
Jarqui
(10,122 posts)with a decision like this.
What were they thinking?
What kind of a person would think of doing something like this to children?
Why aren't Republicans outraged?
Too many questions.
Why don't these heartless idiots just resign since they have no interest in doing the job properly or humanely?
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,103 posts)I swear my blood pressure went up 10 points when reading this shit. GOD DAMN this motherfucking administration!!!!!!!!!!
c-rational
(2,589 posts)nothing can be done. Put the Christians who voted for the dumpster front and center and let them take ownership.
Lock him up.
(6,920 posts)LOCK.EM.UP