International Federal attorneys: can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration

Octavian said:
So that’s a yes. Enjoy your comforts and the privilege you were born into. Many people coming to the US today are doing so for the same reasons our ancestry came here (unless you’re Native American).
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That's fine. Do it LEGALLY so the fucking government is aware you are even here.
 
Octavian said:
So that’s a yes. Enjoy your comforts and the privilege you were born into. Many people coming to the US today are doing so for the same reasons our ancestry came here (unless you’re Native American).
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So? People don't deserve special privileges just because they tugged your heartstrings. People are to be treated equally under the law. In order to be orderly, an immigration system has no choice but to sift through applications and pick individuals; the world has billions of poor people - they can't all come to the US. That's obvious. If you enact an open door immigration policy, chaos ensues. Even lefties know enacting that would be insane, so you instead settle on virtue signalling and looking to reward people who took the chance and crossed illegally. You basically want to reward bad behaviour and allow illegals to skip the line. Meanwhile fuck all the other immigrants who followed the rules, filed proper paperwork and are waiting back home. Screw everyone who's waiting back in another continent for their asylum application to be processed - we've got some criminals to reward with citizenship instead. You people are a joke.
 
Trotsky said:
WASHINGTON — Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children, and that approximately two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, according to a filing from the ACLU on Tuesday.

The Trump administration instituted a "zero tolerance" policy in 2018 that separated migrant children and parents at the southern U.S. border. The administration later confirmed that it had actually begun separating families in 2017 along some portions of the border under a pilot program. The ACLU and other pro-bono law firms were tasked with finding the members of families separated during that pilot program.

Unlike the 2,800 families separated under zero tolerance in 2018, most of whom remained in custody when zero tolerance was ended by executive order, many of the more than 1,000 parents separated from their children under the pilot program had already been deported before a federal judge in California ordered they be found.

“It is critical to find out as much as possible about who was responsible for this horrific practice while not losing sight of the fact that hundreds of families have still not been found and remain separated," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. "There is so much more work to be done to find these families."

"People ask when we will find all of these families and, sadly, I can’t give an answer. I just don’t know. But we will not stop looking until we have found every one of the families, no matter how long it takes. The tragic reality is that hundreds of parents were deported to Central America without their children, who remain here with foster families or distant relatives.”

The ACLU and other organizations that are part of a court-appointed "steering committee" learned that more than 1,000 families were separated in 2017 based on data provided by the Department of Homeland Security. Of those, it has been able to contact the parents of more than 550 children and believes about 25 of them may have a chance of being able to come back to the U.S. for reunification.

Gelernt said some of the families contacted have elected to keep their children in the U.S. with a family member or sponsor "due to fear of what will happen to their child if they return" to their home countries.

The group Justice in Motion is physically searching for the separated parents in Mexico and Central America. “While we have already located many deported parents, there are hundreds more who we are still trying to reach,” said the group in a statement. “It’s an arduous and time-consuming process on a good day. During the pandemic, our team of human rights defenders is taking special measures to protect their own security and safety, as well as that of the parents and their communities.”

A separate court order directed that the Trump administration reunite families separated under zero tolerance in 2018.

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/im...XYQhlcpo0dLpYlo6efibVlhMH3hqLsPr5jZfjsubBhK4g
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https://news.yahoo.com/deported-parents-choosing-not-reunited-103025755.html
Deported Parents Choosing Not to Be Reunited With Children, Holding Out Hope to Return to U.S.
When the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday submitted its most recent court filing on the status of children separated from their parents at the U.S. border, mainstream media focused on one number: 545, the number of kids whose parents still haven’t been located.

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden called it “criminal” during Thursday’s debate.

President Donald Trump mostly dodged a question about how the families will be reunited.

“We’re trying very hard,” he said, after first touting increased border security during his term.


But there’s a couple of numbers that have received significantly less attention in most news reports about the ACLU’s legal fight: 485, the number of children whose parents have been located, and 0, how many of those parents have sought to have their children returned home.

Chase Jennings, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, said in a prepared statement the department has “taken every step to facilitate the reunification of these families where the parents wanted such reunification to occur.”
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“The simple fact is this: after contact has been made with the parents to reunite them with their children, many parents have refused,” he said, noting that “out of the 485 children whom plaintiffs’ counsel has been able to contact, they have yet to identify a single family that wants their child reunited with them in their country of origin.”
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Conservatives be like "THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!?" unless they're Mexican children.
 
Edison Exotic said:
Conservatives be like "THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?!?!?" unless they're Mexican children.
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TheGreatA said:
Many people sadly have a very naive view of these sorts of immigrants and their moral character.
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Depends on what kind of life they had before coming over doesn't it? Your acting like these people are turning their kids away from their mansions back in Mexico.

Some of these parents might be thinking it's better for my child to be there getting meals and a place to sleep than sleeping on the streets with me in most likely unsafe conditions. I've been to Mexico plenty and I don't mean the tourist locations I mean driving there and wondering why some 7-8 year old kid is sleeping on the sidewalk. It was a real trip to see the things I saw there when I was 11-12.
 
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Trotsky said:
Ones that want their kids to have a better life or that want to escape unsafe conditions. Given the amount of denied refugees that were murdered after they were sent back, I'd say the over/under on how many of these parents are dead should be about 50.

And, no, a policy written and enforced by the Trump administration to separate the children from their parents, put them alone in detention centers, try them without lawyers before courts with laws they don't understand, and then deport those parents without their kids is not the parent's fault. It's the fault of Trump and all the impotent, witless pieces of shit that voted for him.
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Cool sob story bro. So fuck our laws. Fuck our borders. Fuck it all cause these people are smart enough to use children as possible loop holes to get into our country. Come here legally, or dont come at all. If you cant AFFORD it, then dont come. Straight up.
 
second sight said:
if they were actually their parents, they would have waited out the process, as it was these people are likely pretending to be parents and split as soon as they got past the check points
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cottagecheesefan said:
Probably because their parents were killed by cartels/coyotes and/or the kids didn't have parents with them and were part of child trafficking.

This is why we need stronger deterants to illegal immigration and the illegal entities that foster it.

God bless America trying to protect them
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As a former illegal immigrant myself. These two are probably the most accurate responses.
 
Never before has the US treated asylum seekers they way they have done recently. Even sending legitimate candidates back to Nicaragua. It has broken US and international laws for people seeking asylum.
 
Son of Ireland 34 said:
Cool sob story bro. So fuck our laws. Fuck our borders. Fuck it all cause these people are smart enough to use children as possible loop holes to get into our country. Come here legally, or dont come at all. If you cant AFFORD it, then dont come. Straight up.
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Pretty ironic user name considering the treatment of Irish refugees who came before legal immigration was even a thing. Really it wasn't until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that immigration policy in general took shape, and that was just due to the fact that Americans fucking hated the Chinese.

Hell the treatment of the Irish immigrants was so bad that many Irish soldiers defected from the US Army and fought for Mexico in the Mexican American War. The San Patricios and their battle against the conquering Anglo American hordes in Mexico is a beautiful moment in Irish history as a whole.
 
AgonyandIrony said:
Pretty ironic user name considering the treatment of Irish refugees who came before legal immigration was even a thing. Really it wasn't until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that immigration policy in general took shape, and that was just due to the fact that Americans fucking hated the Chinese.

Hell the treatment of the Irish immigrants was so bad that many Irish soldiers defected from the US Army and fought for Mexico in the Mexican American War. The San Patricios and their battle against the conquering Anglo American hordes in Mexico is a beautiful moment in Irish history as a whole.
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Save me the history lesson. Unless its the lesson that covers the 1 million immigrants we take in every year. Shrug
 
Son of Ireland 34 said:
Save me the history lesson. Unless its the lesson that covers the 1 million immigrants we take in every year. Shrug
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Four and a half million Irish came here, mostly dwelling in already crowded cities. Treated about how you're treating Latinos. When did your family step off the boats? You coming across real Anglo tbh.
 
AgonyandIrony said:
Four and a half million Irish came here, mostly dwelling in already crowded cities. Treated about how you're treating Latinos. When did your family step off the boats? You coming across real Anglo tbh.
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My point was, what does the past have to do with now. Here and now. We take in one million immigrants a year. Spare me your sob stories. WTF does coming across anglo even mean?
 
Son of Ireland 34 said:
Liberals be like"Come here and we will take care of you. By we, I mean the rich people who's money we will take, to take care of you."
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Lol liberal tax dollars are already taking care of welfare queen red states like west Virginia.
 
So their parents aren’t looking for them either or what..
 
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