“At St. Paul’s Church, detainees’ family members are seeking answers on what they can do next.”
“The president signed the executive order days after he said that the only way to end the division of families was through congressional action because ‘you can’t do it through an executive order.'”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html
“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.”
“If the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it ‘denuclearizes,’ why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/20/cuba-denuclearized-in-1962-why-continue-the-embargo/
“This appears to be an expansion of a 2017 program that sought social media information only from a subset of initially suspicious visa applicants.”
“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.”
