At Least 30 Migrant Children Have Been Separated From Their Parents for More Than a Year

[rangerrebew]

At Least 30 Migrant Children Have Been Separated From Their Parents for More Than a Year

A report from the House Oversight Committee provides new details on the calamity at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ashley Fetters
Jul 13, 2019
 

A startling pair of statistics are tucked into the opening “Executive Summary” section of the House Oversight Committee’s new report on child separation at the U.S.-Mexico border. First, the report specifies that:

    the Committee has now obtained new information about at least 2,648 children who were separated from their parents by the Trump Administration. Many of these children were brought by their parents to the United States to seek refuge from violence in Central America and elsewhere and to seek asylum under U.S. law. This list largely covers children who were separated after the Administration initiated its “zero tolerance policy” in April 2018 and were still in custody as of June 26, 2018.

Immediately following, the report notes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/congress-releases-new-report-child-separations/593905/

[rangerrebew]

How touching.   I taught in residential homes for almost 25 years and there were many, many more children separated from their parents for more than a year than 30 but not one bleeding heart magazine ever gave a damn about them;  probably didn't give a damn because they weren't illegal immigrants.