AP Exclusive: About 2,000 minors separated from families

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press



By COLLEEN LONG
5 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries, according to Department of Homeland Security figures obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

The figures show that 1,995 minors were separated from 1,940 adults from April 19 through May 31. The separations were not broken down by age, and included separations for illegal entry, immigration violations or possible criminal conduct by the adult.

Under a “zero tolerance” policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Department of Homeland Security officials are now referring all cases of illegal entry for criminal prosecution. U.S. protocol prohibits detaining children with their parents because the children are not charged with a crime and the parents are.

Sessions announced the effort April 6, and Homeland Security began stepping up referrals in early May, effectively putting the policy into action.

Read more: https://apnews.com/3361a7d5fa714ea4b028f0a29db1cabc

[lagomorph777]

1. Donald Trump has kidnapped 2000 children and thrown them in concentration camps.

[sandensea]

2. Trump's desaparecidos.

This is straight out of the Argentine dictatorship in the late '70s (which most in the GOP supported at the time).

Some 500 infants were taken from their mothers, who were held in captivity as dissidents (and sometimes just because some general's wife had a personal vendetta), and then sold to friends of the regime, as well as wealthy Brazilians and Europeans.

The only difference is that, once they gave birth, the mothers were simply killed, often by being thrown alive (though sedated) from planes over the Atlantic.

Definitely the kind of thing Joe Arpaio would do if he could.

[lagomorph777]

3. Trump pardoned Arpaio so he can be eligible for Federal employment.

Looks like a perfect job for him. Because Adolph Eichmann is unavailable.

[sandensea]

4. You said it.

That we're having to comment on this very thing, in 2018 America, is in itself disturbing beyond words.

May the courts catch up with these people - like Argentina's courts eventually did.

[groundloop]

5. My God what have we become?????

It's not a very long stretch of the imagination to liken what we're doing to these immigrant families to the start of the holocaust, and sadly many Americans will sit idly by and let this happen.

[CrispyQ]

7. "If you're wondering what you would have done in 1930s Germany, you're doing it now."

Someone else said that several months ago, but I thought it was accurate. And I'm part of the problem, too. I have my own excuses why I'm not down at that Walmart with tens of thousands of others, demanding those children be returned to their families. There's a sense of helplessness & questions of what to do. Then there's the shock of friends & family who still support this vile, vulgar man & by extension, these policies.

[LibinMo]

8. If I weren't homebound I'd be out protesting this abomination

I donated $20 to votecommongood.com after hearing Bishop William Barber & Frank Schaeffer this morning on AM Joy. Not much but maybe it will help.

[Sophia4]

6. This is absolutely unforgivable.

In the United States, parents have rights.

What is Jeff Sessions thinking? How bigoted can a person be?

[LibinMo]

9. Jeff Sessions is beneath contempt

[Hortensis]

10. They're taking babies, even those still breastfeeding,

from their mothers.

Why aren't these employees refusing to be part of this evil?