“This practice—overly suspicious government officials seizing children from their parents—isn’t confined to Minnesota.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/18/cps-mom-baby-cops-kidnapping
“Under slavery, children were sold separately from their parents. The separation of children from their parents was also imposed on native American Indians.”
Read more: https://notesonliberty.com/2018/06/19/separation-of-children-an-american-tradition/
“That the separations only began after a discretionary decision by the administration shows that Trump’s insistence that Democrats are obstructing a fix is nonsense.”
“Join the hundreds of foster parents across the United States who are meeting the needs of these vulnerable children and youth in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program.”
Read more: http://www.usccb.org/about/children-and-migration/foster-care/index.cfm
“‘Many kids are having nightmares, can’t eat, can’t sleep … don’t know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear … the memory never goes away.'”
“ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying ‘Mami’ and ‘Papi’ while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday.”
Read more: https://people.com/human-interest/border-patrol-agent-jokes-migrant-children-separated-parents/
“Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children.”
“In 2015, I asked President Obama to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (‘family detention centers’) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core.”
Read more: https://twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232?s=19
“Authorities believe that the assaults had been going on for months and perhaps years; the girl’s mother was allegedly blackmailed by the deputy to ‘place her in fear’ so she would not report the assaults.”
“The administration argued that it was just enforcing the law.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/melania-trump-family-separation.html
