“There are now over 10,000 migrant children in government custody in 100 U.S. shelters in 14 states. All 10,000 of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents.”
“The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/immigration-family-separation-children/
“The number of migrant children locked up by the federal government has surged by more than 20 percent and left designated detention facilities at near-capacity.”
“160 American-born children have a parent who could soon be ordered to leave the country; many families are relying on handouts.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/11/us/tennessee-immigration-trump.html
“The most effective form of advertising is to create a sub-culture through which to sell products.”
“If a member of Congress can’t even get a peek at an immigration detention facility near the border with Mexico, it inevitably raises questions about what the federal government is hiding.”
“Officials from Guatemala’s Ministry of Foreign affairs delivered her body to weeping relatives, friends and neighbors.”
“The Congolese asylum seeker who heard her six year old scream, ‘Don’t take me away from my mommy!’ and couldn’t reach her. The woman forced to put her 18 month old in a car seat in an ICE van, the door slamming shut before she could even say goodbye. The man who hasn’t seen his son in six months. The rows of children sleeping on thin mats behind chain-linked fences. The kids being led by guards to make phone calls, hands tied behind their backs. The prison van full of infant car seats.”
“Among the changes to the law Mitchell and the group are calling for are making lying, fabricating evidence, and withholding information a felony, requiring more publicly available information so parents know their rights, eliminating total immunity for state agents, and requiring all parental termination cases to be jury trials.”
“[His wife], a U.S. citizen, said she and Villavicencio married five years ago and now have two daughters, ages 2 and 3.”