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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese immigrant children were never going to be reunited. Never.
Since May, more than 2,000 immigrant children have been separated from their parents and placed in shelters across the country as part of the Trump administrations zero tolerance policy on immigration.
Some of those children have not seen or spoken to their parents, even though officials at the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) have said that boys and girls held in their facilities are supposed to have the chance to speak with their family members twice a week, and a federal judge in California ordered Tuesday that all children in ORR custody be able to speak to their parents within 10 days.
In many cases, these phone calls arent happening on a consistent basis, advocates and attorneys say. But VICE News obtained an exclusive recording of a phone call that happened Tuesday between a distraught 7-year-old immigrant child and his mother in Guatemala. His mother granted VICE permission to use the audio
The child crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with his father in late May. Since then, he has been in an ORR shelter in Arizona while his father has been detained in a detention facility in Texas. The boy has been separated from his father for almost a month but has been granted only two calls with his mother. Not a single call has been arranged to his father.
(snip)
Mother: Dont cry, my love. Be happy; you are going to get out of there.
Child: (crying) Yes.
(end snip)
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3abjz/listen-to-a-distraught-guatemalan-child-call-his-mother-from-a-us-immigration-shelter
The Trump party are monsters.
Wounded Bear
(58,793 posts)right out of the Hitler playbook.
anarch
(6,535 posts)Sessions, Miller, Il Douche...they should all be dragged to the Hague and held accountable.
scarletlib
(3,419 posts)When the time comes and I hope sooner rather than later, this Nation should refuse to give them the protection of the law or the people.
shraby
(21,946 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)country is in far deeper shit than many comprehend.
think4yourself
(839 posts)It is so sick. They argue that we cant allow them entry into the country and then sweep these children onto a plane to Chicago.
These children are now here permanently and I fear for their lives!