Exclusive: Trump administration considering separating women, children at Mexico border

[babylonsister]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children-idUSKBN16A2ES

Exclusive: Trump administration considering separating women, children at Mexico border

By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON


Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials.

Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.

The policy shift would allow the government to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum hearings. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of Health and Human Services, in the "least restrictive setting" until they can be taken into the care of a U.S. relative or state-sponsored guardian.

Currently, families contesting deportation or applying for asylum are generally released from detention quickly and allowed to remain in the United States until their cases are resolved. A federal appeals court ruling bars prolonged child detention.

President Donald Trump has called for ending "catch and release," in which migrants who cross illegally are freed to live in the United States while awaiting legal proceedings.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children-idUSKBN16A2ES

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Inhumane bastards.

Sounds like what they did at slave markets.

[Kber]

6. It's not a bug.

It's a feature.

[unblock]

2. eet vos ferry effektif in deutschland, jawohl!

[lpbk2713]

3. Remember ... Trump flies the banner of the "family values" party.

Heartless mofo.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Wow,you got to be kidding.

Many remember how that worked out with the Native Americans and there are still Law Suites going today against the Mormon Church regarding care and treatment of Ute Children. Remember the Catholic Church and their Indian Schools? I do,and it was not pretty as to the out comes .

It did not work and It will not work. BTW,this whole f---n Border thing is being driven by the two Border and ICE union Bosses who supported Trump.

[mopinko]

18. did those catholics

have a mass grave for dead babies like the irish homes?
full disclosure, full blooded irish recovered catholic.

[Wellstone ruled]

19. Not mass,individual.

[leftstreet]

5. This has to violate immigration/family laws

FFS

[MissB]

7. Yay! Are they going to load them on cattle cars too?

[babylonsister]

12. My very first thought, too. Grrrr. nt

[tableturner]

8. Like many times before, it's total BS designed to deflect attention from the Russia scandal.

In a few days the Trump group will say that this report, which they probably planted, was false. They hope that in the meantime, it will obviate to some degree the attention now being paid to Russia. That strategy is losing effectiveness due to the public's increasing worry about the increasingly serious Russia scandal, and because the strategy is being over used to the point that everybody can see right through their efforts to put out their own bizarre fake news.

[mcar]

9. This is not America

I'm disgusted by these fcking hypocrites. They are all about "life" but treat people like stray dogs.

[lpbk2713]

10. It's Aleppo West.

And Trump likes what he sees.

[mcar]

11. I'm heartsick over it

[0rganism]

13. sadly, i'm afraid that it is

it's not like this kind of brutality hasn't happened here before
in the slave markets, the native relocations and "Indian Schools", the internment camps of WW2...
difference is, now it's visible to us, happening here and now, not in some distant past or faraway place
we all made a huge mistake thinking it couldn't happen here again -- human nature can change over time, but it hasn't changed enough just yet. somehow going forward we need to remember this and do what we can to address its causes, not just wipe a hand across our foreheads saying "glad that's all behind us now".
if we survive, that is

[spanone]

14. assholes one and all.

[nolabear]

15. The cruelty of this is unconscionable. Some of those children will never recover.

Children are not complete. They are not structured like adults. They live within the crucible of a family and their health, development and ability to overcome trauma depends on the relative stability of that crucible. Being taken from your mother while in the middle of a strange place, stress, exhaustion, illness, potential abuse and a host of things changes the structures of brains and personalities. Often those changes are disastrous.

He can't. He just can't.

[Warpy]

16. Good way to waste a lot of money and maximize human misery

That's what this gang of Russian mobster pawns seem to have as their real goal.

This is cruel and inhumane.

We have to get rid of these men ASAP or the rest of the world will do it for us.

[mopinko]

24. the only way we wipe away this stain

is to hang more than a couple of these nazis from the washington monument on the 4th of july.
even at that, it remain a stain on the very idea of democracy.

[dlk]

17. What's Next for Trump and his Extremists, Concentration Camps?

Looking back at all of the flack Hillary received for using the word deplorable, she actually made a gross understatement.

[TeamPooka]

20. WWND? What Would Nazi's Do? This. nt

[northoftheborder]

21. Cruel and inhumane.

[WinkyDink]

22. They're going to build the "shower room" next, aren't they? Because....FAMILY VALUES!

[lapfog_1]

26. One child with a genetic mutation

and these bastards will have created Magneto.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. I just heard this on TV and it physically hurt. The cruelty is unimaginable . . . . .

. . . . until you realize it is more than imaginable.

[dalton99a]

25. Vile.

[Lotusflower70]

27. That's a special kind of fucked up

And absolutely heart breaking. I know kids are resilient but this sort of practice does irreparable psychological harm. This is unnecessarily cruel. The motive is profit and to whiten America. It only makes ICE's job more difficult. Not only is it inhumane, it is fiscally ineffective.

[bdamomma]

28. inhumane and cruel.

We can't let this happen to our country and minorities, this is all Bannon the Leninist.

[Solly Mack]

29. How can you reason with people who are that cruel?

I don't see a way.

Such people are completely alien to me.