Trump administration identifies at least 1,700 additional children it may have separated

[demmiblue]

Source: NBC News

The Trump administration has identified at least 1,712 migrant children it may have separated from their parents in addition to those separated under the “zero tolerance” policy, according to court transcripts of a Friday hearing.

U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the Trump administration to identify children separated before the zero tolerance policy went into effect in May 2018, resulting in the separation of over 2,800 children.

Sabraw previously ordered those migrant families to be reunited, but the additional children were identified more recently when the Inspector General for Health and Human Services estimated “thousands more” may have been separated before the policy was officially underway.

Other potentially separated migrant children could still be identified. The government has reviewed the files of 4,108 children out of 50,000 so far.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-700-additional-separated-migrant-children-identified-trump-administration-n1007426

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. The cruelty is too much to process.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. "1700 additional children it MAY HAVE separated ?"

This is kidnapping.

THIS SHIT HAS GOT TO STOP.

Why hasn't the UN weighed in on this yet ? WHAT are they waiting for ? If any other country did this, they'd be screaming.

[George Eliot]

8. Kidnappying! It's what I call it, too. KIDNAPPING!

Where is our Rule of Law? This is beyond normal. Beyond acceptable. Criminal.

[duforsure]

4. His legacy will have this as part of his moral failure,

And those that did nothing to stop this. Our country's worse disastrous nightmare intentionally done to immigrants and their children to permanently hurt them for life. Civil suits should make them regret this , and serve as a example when this is used against people. The candidates should be yelling at the top of their lungs what a horrible thing this is, and caging children, and children dying from it.

[kacekwl]

5. THIS here is more than enough

to impeach trump and his whole bunch.

[Maxheader]

6. New tactic...

Trump admin admits to large amounts of child kidnapping...

>to draw attention away from his other "projects"...iran, trade war, tax returns...obstruction...

Public sympathy for the children...vs war?

I've never seen a white house willing to use their own treacherous events against each other..

[Hugin]

7. Wait. What? They've only reviewed around 8% of the cases so far?

They'd better get cracking, if they expect to track the around 800,000 miscarriages that occur annually.

[suffragette]

9. Number separated always seemed off. Posted about that last year. They minimized it once the backlash

began.

Cruel people; cruel policy.

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