05-29-2018, 11:39 AM
(05-29-2018, 11:15 AM)Donovan Wrote: According to the former official on NPR (whose name has escaped me but who was directly involved) speaking to the topic of forcefully separating children from their parents regardless of age or circumstance, there was NO law or enforcement of such a practice under either Bush or Obama. This is purely Trump.
That's right.
Under the Trump administration, children who enter the U.S. with their parents are being taken from the parents and put in the same detention centers and subjected to the same flawed processes as the hundred thousand children who've entered alone over the last several years, thousands of whom are now unaccounted for.
The parents are going directly to jail and have no say in the matter. Under previous administrations, the parents and children went to immigration court together unless there were factors making that imprudent.
In the short time since Trump's administration started separating migrant children from their parents immediately upon crossing the border, there are already parents who do not know where the children they brought over are located. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/ho...o-14738340
I do understand why the blanket term "lost children" is causing confusion though. It's true that the government has lost track of thousands of migrant minors. However, that doesn't mean that all or most of the relatives or custodians with whom they were placed have lost, abused, or trafficked the kids. It means the government can't reach those relatives and custodians, so the government doesn't know what's happening with the kids.