Exclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children

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Will Anyone in the Trump Administration Ever Be Held Accountable for the Zero-Tolerance Policy?

what the Trump Administration should do in the aftermath of the President’s failed zero-tolerance policy.

The policy, which

called for the criminal prosecution of anyone crossing the border illegally, and

led to the separation of more than twenty-five hundred children from their parents,

has coincided with a broader effort to dismantle the U.S. asylum system.

Yet the government never had a plan for keeping track of the separated parents and children once they were in custody,

“I definitely haven’t seen contrition,” an Administration official, who told me about the weekly meetings, said.

“But there was frustration with the incompetence of how zero tolerance got implemented.

From the perspective of the political leaders here,

there’s recognition of how badly the policy failed.”

no one in the Trump Administration has been held accountable

for its family-separation policy, even after evidence has steadily mounted as to its immense human costs and administrative failures.

The government’s own data show that it has had no appreciable effect on migration patterns throughout the summer, but

the Administration pursued the policy anyway, targeting immigrant families.

“The Administration has not explained its rationale for prosecuting parents with children when that left so many other adults without children who were not being referred for prosecution.”

“It’s still baffling to me that no one has had to answer for this.”

, a former government official told me,

the prime movers behind zero tolerance were

members of a “cabal of anti-immigration guys” at the White House, the D.H.S., and the Department of Justice.

Stephen Miller and a Justice Department adviser named Gene Hamilton

led the discussion, the former official said.

“They want to have a different America, ( aka "no colored" only "blood and soil" whites )

whether the outcry over family separation had caught the government by surprise.

It had, the official said.

“The expectation was that the kids would go to the Office of Refugee Resettlement,

that the parents would get deported,

and that no one would care.”

Yet, when it became clear that the public did,

the Administration chose not to change course.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily...Q2MjA4NDY5NQS2

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US officers (allegedly) coerced migrant parents to sign do ents they didn't understand:

A complaint filed against the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday alleges many parents were coerced into signing paperwork they didn’t understand and that they were verbally and emotionally abused while detained and away from their children.


In some of the cases, parents gave away rights to be reunited with their children when the non-English speaking mothers and fathers signed do ents in English they could not read, according to the complaint provided to the AP before it was filed with the Department of Homeland Security.


In other examples, parents who had been reunited were threatened with another separation if they didn’t agree to be deported with their children, the complaint said.


The complaint was filed by the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Immigration Council, who say attorneys spoke with 76 parents who said they were asked to sign forms affecting their rights to reunify with their children.
All of them said they weren’t allowed to ask what would happen if they signed the form

.https://theshow.kjzz.org/content/689...um=AP_CorpComm

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Migrant Family Reunifications Slow To A Crawl As Trump Admin Still Labels Some ‘Ineligible’

the Trump administration told a federal court in San Diego that that number has barely budged, dropping to 528 nearly a month after the court’s deadline to reunite all of the separated children. Of the still-separated group, 23 are younger than 5 years old.

Of the children who remain separated, the Trump administration says 343 have a parent who was deported without them.

The Trump administration tried to argue in court that the burden should be on ACLU and other human rights groups to find all of the deported parents and ascertain their wishes for reunification.

“All of this is the result of the government’s separation and then inability and failure to track and reunite,” Judge Sabraw said.

“And the reality is that for every parent who is not located there will be a permanently orphaned child.

And that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration.”

A few days later, the ACLU says, the Trump administration began providing the contact information.

“I think the judge reading them the riot act certainly helped,” Gelernt told TPM.

The Trump administration claims that 139 separated parents have said they do not want to be reunified with their child, though

the ACLU has submitted extensive sworn testimony to the court indicating that many of those parents were coerced or misled by ICE officials when they made that decision.

‘I would like to come back to the U.S. and join my child and seek asylum if that is an option,

because I was told the only way to see my child was to accept removal and give up my asylum rights.’

The Trump administration has also labeled dozens of the

still-separated parents either temporarily or permanently ineligible for reunification

because they found something in a background check or case file review that they consider a “red flag,”

“But based on the information we’ve gotten from the government so far, it doesn’t feel to us that any of the people should have their children taken away.

Some of the crimes listed are very minor, like possession of marijuana.

Some are not even convictions.

Some are charges.

Some are just allegations.

But even if they are all true, they do not meet the well-tested standards under state laws for what is sufficiently serious to take a child away.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mig...0%28TPMNews%29

It's sickening that Trash and his "criminals against humanity", Miller/Kelly/etc, will get away with their crimes.

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Your Honor, Can I Play With That Gavel?

The U.S. government expects children as young as 18 months to represent themselves in immigration court. Lawyers in Miami made a coloring book to help kids understand what they’re facing.

migrant children’s nightmares are just beginning once they set foot here, as do ented in the video above.

Every child that crosses the border without permission has an immigration court case to fight, but there is no right to free counsel in that court.

So children, who sometimes speak only an indigenous language, are going up alone against government lawyers to fight to stay in the United States.

If that sounds absurd, that’s because it is.

Congress has the power to change this. Repug Congress?

Americans for Immigrant Justice began to see an increase in young children needing legal representation.

We thought: How do we get toddlers to understand the gravity of their situation?

The stakes are high:

Over half of all children in immigration court are unrepresented.

Nine out of 10 of them will be ordered deported.

If we as a country are truly invested in protecting children,

the bare minimum that we can do is ensure access to a lawyer for immigrant children who cannot afford one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/o...er=rss&emc=rss

The insanity of Trash/JeBo/Miller's ethnic cleansing/white supremacy, implementing the racism they were elected on and by the Repug racist base.

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US citizens hassled, detained, passports confiscated:

In a case last August, a 35-year-old Texas man with a U.S. passport was interrogated while crossing back into Texas from Mexico with his son at the McAllen-Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge, connecting Reynosa, Mexico, to McAllen, Tex.
His passport was taken from him, and Customs and Border Protection agents told him to admit that he was born in Mexico, according to do ents later filed in federal court. He refused and was sent to the Los Fresnos Detention Center and entered into deportation proceedings.

He was released three days later, but the government scheduled a deportation hearing for him in 2019. His passport, which had been issued in 2008, was revoked.

Amazingly, this man’s story is not an aberration. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, TX, told the Post.

Diez represents dozens of U.S. citizens who were denied their passports or had their passports suddenly revoked. Among them are soldiers and Border Patrol agents. In some cases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrived at his clients’ homes without notice and taken passports away.

https://splinternews.com/the-us-is-d...the-1828701557

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US citizens hassled, detained, passports confiscated:

https://splinternews.com/the-us-is-d...the-1828701557

... and Repug Congress is complicit by their silence. Their ONLY priority is serving the oligarchy, while calculating that their seat in Congress and its perks are worth more than crossing autocrat Trash.

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Slate's take on Trash/Miller/Kelly ethnic cleansing

Trump Administration Is Trying to Systematically Strip Citizenship From Many Americans Born Near Mexico Border

The next phase in the Trump administration’s effort to reduce immigration is to strip Americans who were simply born and raised near the border with Mexico of their citizenship by claiming their birth certificates and other birth do ents are fraudulent.

an Orwellian-sounding process of “denaturalization” of American citizens that the U.S. government believed obtained citizenship through iden y theft and fraud.

the government’s program of invalidating what appears to be almost exclusively Hispanic Americans’ citizenship,

by revoking passports of Americans born along the southern border,

is not a limited piecemeal effort.

It’s an active, if discreet American policy that’s being carried out against card-carrying citizens.

The pretense for the Trump government’s move to strip Americans of their citizenship is its belief that hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans born along the border from the 1950s to the 1990s were fraudulently issued American birth certificates by midwives and physicians.

The problem, the Post notes, is “the same midwives who provided fraudulent birth certificates

also delivered thousands of babies legally in the United States [and] [i]t has

proved nearly impossible to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate do ents, all of them officially issued by the state of Texas decades ago.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...co-border.html

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the US is essentially deporting legit US citizens at this point and hardly anyone gives a .

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Think about what zero tolerance means. If your RGV parents couldn't afford a hospital delivery and hired a midwife, and didn't keep the receipts, could you prove native birth if the government took away your US passport and challenged your birth certificate?

I hope your momma and daddy kept your medical bills. Otherwise Trump might deport you to your presumed country of origin.

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the US is essentially deporting legit US citizens at this point and hardly anyone gives a .

There are people who GAF, but there's no way to stop the fascist, racist Trash Exec, racist Miller and their Schutzstaffel DHS, anymore than the unstoppable oligarchy.

And the Dems remain silent, as complicit as the Repugs' terrorism with the torture of immigrant children, and the destruction of families and children.

This is Trash/Miller/Kelly are doing exactly what the Trash base wants: ethnic cleansing of non-white people, to Make America Whiter Again.

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El Salvador says 3 separated child migrants were sexually abused in Arizona shelters

The children, age 12 to 17, are among the 191 Salvadoran minors separated from their parents, 18 of whom are still in U.S. shelters.

"They are sexual violations, sexual abuses, that is what this is about," Magarin said.

The three children are in good health, she added, but

"the psychological and emotional impact is forever, and we are attending to that situation."

http://theweek.com/speedreads/793471...izona-shelters

America The Beautiful

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Nearly 500 immigrant children remain separated from their families

Twenty-two of those children are under the age of 5.

https://thinkprogress.org/family-sep...-c856fcbee2f0/

All y'all racist, white supremacist Trash-fellators voted for ethnic cleansing, and you got it.

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stripping people of citizenship based on mere su ion in the relatively due process free context of immigration court, is outrageous.

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stripping people of citizenship based on mere su ion in the relatively due process free context of immigration court, is outrageous.

ethnic cleansing is outrageous but Trash, his mafiya, his base, the Repugs have made ethnic cleansing / white supremacy The American Way.

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Any reports of ICE/CBP barging into white people's homes in the RGV and confiscating their passports,etc?

No doubt some poor whites born in RGV by doulas, midwives can't prove they are "native born" citizens.

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disagree strongly. codified immigration policy has a pedigree that is pretty much racist to the bone. it didn't start with Trump, nor has he remade immigration law in his image.

all the tools were already there.

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disagree strongly. codified immigration policy has a pedigree that is pretty much racist to the bone. it didn't start with Trump, nor has he remade immigration law in his image.

all the tools were already there.

USA set up immigration quotas for different countries decades ago. Not racist to the bone.

Trash, his base, his Exec, Repugs are racist to the bone, have been fo 50 years.

They are implementing ethnic cleansing and racist white supremacy (ab)using laws and creating totally new Exec policies (family destruction isn't codified)

There's a LOT OF the govt can do to ANYBODY if it decides to "throw the book at you" (just look at the up to 10 crimes a single person is charged with for a single wrong act). NYPD, esp in Julie Annie's "broken windows" reign, was famous for charging blacks and browns for OGO "obstructing govt operation".

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Trash's inhumane, racist policies and implementation are gonna get worse


Trump’s Pick to Lead Refugee Efforts Is a Critic of Immigration

“To put somebody in charge whose track record consists of writing about how much he despises immigrants is just unfathomable.”


What the Trump administration did not mention is Mortensen’s views on immigration, which he chronicled liberally in blog posts between June 2009 and October 2017 for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that supports reduced immigration to the United States; Mortensen is listed as a fellow at CIS.

In those posts,

Mortensen

linked illegal immigration to ID theft and higher crime rates;

railed against Dreamers, who were brought to the country as children without do entation;

criticized efforts at reforming the nation’s immigration system; and

specifically targeted Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio, the Mormon church, and evangelical leaders for their support of those efforts.

It’s worth noting, however, that Mortensen’s blog posts were restricted almost exclusively to those who are in the U.S. illegally.

I did not find any post in which Mortensen criticized the asylum process that he will soon oversee if he is confirmed by the Senate,

or the global refugee architecture to which the U.S. is still the largest single financial contributor.

“I think it’s alarming to have people put forward who are so strongly anti-immigrant when the job requires building bridges to other countries and working to help people in need around the world,”

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/trumps-pick-to-lead-refugee-efforts-is-a-critic-of-immigration/561515/

Motensen is just another Trash/Miller/Bannon

" ALL Y'ALL, we doin' inhumane kakistocracy, you can't stop us, so STFU"

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The laws that established quotas were indeed racist to the bone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Quota_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

The Hart-Cellar Act did away with national origin quotas, but visa limitations are functionally similar:

No more than 7 percent of the visas may be issued to natives of any one independent country in a fiscal year; no more than 2 percent may issued to any one dependency of any independent country. The per-country limit does not indicate, however, that a country is en led to the maximum number of visas each year, just that it cannot receive more than that number. Because of the combined workings of the preference system and per-country limits, most countries do not reach this level of visa issuance.

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit

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deplorable Repug Ethnic Cleansing / Misogyny News

Immigrants Turn Down Fed Aid For Formula, Healthy Food After Trump Admin Threats

Immigrants are increasingly turning down federal assistance for formula for infants and healthy food for their kids in the wake of threats from the Trump administration that the use of government assistance could jeopardize immigrants’ green card chances.

public health agencies in at least 18 states have seen enrollment in WIC —

a nutritious food assistance program for pregnant women and families — drop by 20 percent.

The agencies told Politico that they’ve seen a significant uptick in phone calls from do ented and undo ented immigrants asking to be removed from the WIC program

following reports that

the White House is considering using the acceptance of public assistance against green card applicants.

The proposal, which has been promulgated largely by White House adviser Stephen Miller, Trash's Mr Racial Purity

would mostly impact legal immigrants already in the U.S. and those seeking to immigrate to America through legal venues.

WIC is one of the “least politically controversial” public assistance programs that the White House plans to earmark in its proposal because it aids children who are legal citizens, according to Politico.

The program gives pregnant mothers and low-income families vouchers to purchase baby formula and fresh fruits, vegetables, milk and other basic groceries.

WIC serves nearly half of all the babies who are born in the United States, according to Politico.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/i...+%28TPMNews%29

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DHS to sidestep Flores settlement, will detain mothers and children indefinitely:

The Trump administration announced a new rule Thursday that would allow immigrant children with their parents to be held in detention indefinitely, upending a ban on indefinite detention that has been in place for 20 years, NBC News reported.

The rule, proposed by the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, goes into effect in 60 days and will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep children with their mothers in detention facilities while their cases for asylum play out in court.

A DHS official speaking on the condition of anonymity said the purpose of the rulemaking is to terminate the 1997 Flores settlement agreement that said children could not be held in detention longer than 20 days.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics...492600961.html

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Ok, a link. Neat. How about an opinion on this?

xenophobia, white male supremacy, ethnic cleansing speak for themselves

AmeriKKKa der schön

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Ok, a link. Neat. How about an opinion on this?

Outrageous and cruel. I guess you didn't notice my trend of posting in this thread.

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Congressional Inaction Leaves DACA Dependents in Dire Straits

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09...-dire-straits/

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One kidnapped migrant child languished in a Chicago facility for more than a year

sent to detention facilities in the Chicago area reveal kids “agonized over missing their parents and acted on their anguish by threatening to harm themselves or others,”

a group of nearly 100 migrant children who were separated from their parents due to the Trump administration’s barbaric “zero tolerance” policy and sent to nine area facilities operated by Heartland Human Care Services, under contract with the U.S. government.

There, ProPublica reports,

anguished kids became depressed, said they wanted to die, and, in their distress, were even admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

One child, 12-year-old Erick, was admitted for a week and was diagnosed with adjustment disorder, do ents show.

“Since he was placed in Heartland’s care in May,

Erick has been put on at least three medications

to control his depression, aggression and emotional outbursts,

has had trouble sleeping and

has fought with other children and staff,”

He’s still separated from his dad.

This is torture, and it’s been happening far longer than the Trump administration admits.

they did find another child had been held there even longer, for 400 days after being torn from his dad in June 2017.

it’s the kids who continue to remain locked up.
This is torture, and

the damage could be irreparable.

“The damage inflicted was not something that went away because of the reunification,”

said an attorney leading a lawsuit demanding the U.S. pay for mental health counseling for these kids.

“We are starting to see signs that there could be long-term effects.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/11/1795012/-One-kidnapped-migrant-child-languished-in-a-Chicago-facility-for-over-a-year-do ents-reveal

And where are Dems SCREAMING TO HIGH about this?

Will they campaign on Repug torture of kids?