FROM THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY WEBSITE: Myth vs. Fact: DHS Zero-Tolerance Policy

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

URL: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/06/18/myth-vs-fact-dhs-zero-tolerance-policy

Release Date: June 18,2018


In recent days, we have seen reporters, Members of Congress, and other groups mislead the public on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) zero-tolerance policy.

Federal law enforcement officers have sworn duties to enforce the laws that Congress passes.  Repeating intentionally untrue and unsubstantiated statements about DHS agents, officers, and procedures is irresponsible and deeply disrespectful to the men and women who risk their lives every day to secure our border and enforce our laws.

Myth

DHS has a policy to separate families at the border.

Fact

DHS does not have a blanket policy of separating families at the border.   However, DHS does have a responsibility to protect all minors in our custody. This means DHS will separate adults and minors under certain circumstances.  These circumstances include:

 1) when DHS is unable to determine the familial relationship,
 2) when DHS determines that a child may be at risk with the parent or legal guardian, or
 3) when the parent or legal guardian is referred for criminal prosecution.

Familial Relationship – If there is reason to question the claimed familial relationship between an adult and child, it is not appropriate to detain adults and children together.

Human Trafficking and Smuggling – If there is reason to suspect the purported parent or legal guardian of human trafficking or smuggling, DHS detains the adult in an appropriate, secure detection facility, separate from the minor.  DHS continues to see instances and intelligence reports indicating minors are trafficked by unrelated adults, posing as a “family” in an effort to avoid detention.


Safety Risk – If there is reason to suspect the purported parent or legal guardian poses a safety risk to the child (e.g. suspected child abuse), it is not appropriate to maintain the adult and child together.

Criminal Prosecution – If an adult is referred for criminal prosecution, the adult will be transferred to U.S. Marshals Service custody and any children will be classified as an unaccompanied alien child and transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services custody.


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[Right_in_Virginia]

Build the damn wall.  Problem solved.

[mountaineer]

The increasingly irrelevant United Methodist Church weighs in:

Church charges brought against Sessions
By Sam Hodges
June 18, 2018 | UMNS

More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laity say they are bringing church law charges against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a fellow United Methodist, over a zero tolerance U.S. immigration policy — a policy that includes separating children from parents apprehended for crossing into the U.S. illegally.

However, an authority on church history and polity said he’s unaware of a complaint against a lay person ever moving past the district level.

The group claimed in a June 18 statement that Sessions, a member of a Mobile, Alabama, church, violated Paragraph 2702.3 of the denomination’s Book of Discipline.

Specifically, the group accuses him of child abuse in reference to separating young children from their parents and holding them in mass incarceration facilities; immorality; racial discrimination and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the established standards of doctrines” of The United Methodist Church. ...

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And they wonder why the mainline denominations are sinking.

[SirLinksALot]

Build the damn wall.  Problem solved.

Of course. But that is going to take time. This thread was posted to EXPLAIN what the DHS is doing in the meantime and to ANSWER the charges of the Democrats ( and folks like the Bushes -- Laura, Jeb and their ilk ).

[dfwgator]

More important is to discourage people from trying to cross the border in the first place.