Migrant children at border are still being separated from relatives for weeks under Biden admin

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/03/06/migrant-children-facility-used-house-minors-separated-family/4587455001/

The Biden administration is still sheltering children separated from close family members in federal facilities for weeks on end – something immigrant advocates and attorneys had hoped the new administration would resolve by now.

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The migrant children often arrive with a grandparent, older sibling or other relative but are separated until federal officials can confirm the accompanying adult is their relative, as required under U.S. law. The procedure, which is different from the highly controversial Trump administration policy of separating immigrant parents from their children, is designed to protect minors from human traffickers and grant them legal protections.

But it also classifies the youngsters as "unaccompanied minors" and places them in federal shelters until a sponsor or adult is vetted, a process that can take several weeks or even months.

Though not as dramatic as Trump administration-era family separations, which unleashed a furious backlash, separating children from close relatives could be equally detrimental, said Lisa Koop, associate director of legal services at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a legal advocacy group that represents young immigrants. "It really does look and feel in many ways like a parent-child separation," Koop said. "The trauma of the separation is very similar."

[snowybirdie]

1. Of course

After four years of destroying the system, Biden is at fault for not fixing it in 60 days! Come on folks!

[comradebillyboy]

3. Why doesn't he just wave his magic wand and make it perfect? /s

[tirebiter]

2. The tide will subside

They are under protection not prisoners.

-But it also classifies the youngsters as "unaccompanied minors" and places them in federal shelters until a sponsor or adult is vetted, a process that can take several weeks or even months.-

That’s called taking responsibility.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. "On a press call, CBP Commissioner Miller declined to share the number of unaccompanied children

in custody because it's 'law enforcement sensitive.' No explanation of what that really means or how it balances with the public's right to know how many children are being held.

In response to a question about why this is law enforcement sensitive, Miller said that multiple agencies are involved; this didn't explain why we can't know the number of children (none of whom are accused of committing a crime) detained in cells at the border."

Link to tweet

[BGBD]

5. As they should be

A child shows up with somebody just claiming to be a grandparent or sibling and we are supposed to take their word for it?

This is a policy to protect the kids. Trumps policy was to punish the parents by taking their kids away. The difference is wider than the Rio Grande.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

6. We also need to remember that some of the same assholes who

worked there during trumps rule are still there. They need to be checked and removed. If they were abusive while trump was in I am very sure that didn't change when Biden came in.

I realize there are other things going on but I am sure that is part of.

[PSPS]

7. As Mayorkas said last week, Biden inherited a "gutted" system

[treestar]

8. This was always done!

It is not the Trump policy. It says right there, it is different, was done that way before and is to make sure trafficking isn't involved!

[Mr.Bill]

9. Not blaming the OP

but that's a USA Today clickbait headline. The story actually explains it well.