"No system" to reunite children with parents in detention, former Obama official says

Source: CBS News

In a rare reversal, President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. will maintain "zero-tolerance" at the border but will allow migrant families to stay together temporarily, backing down on his own administration's policy separating children from their parents who have come to the U.S. illegally.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are taking "immediate steps" to implement the president's new executive order. However, it's unclear if or when the children already separated will reunite with their parents.

Alex Antonio and his 2-year-old son Jeremy were released after being initially detained for the maximum period of 72 hours. The release came around the same time President Trump signed his executive order, reports CBS News' David Begnaud. The Honduran man said that while in custody he heard that families were being separated and he feared it would happen to him and Jeremy. For the more than 2,300 children already separated from their parents, the executive order may not change anything immediately.

"There is currently no system in place to reunite children with parents who are in detention," Open Society Fellow Bob Carey said. He used to run the Office of Refugee Resettlement during the Obama administration, the federal agency responsible for caring for the separated children.

Carey says ORR's shelter system was designed for minors who arrived alone at the border, typically adolescent boys, and is not equipped for the influx of infants, toddlers and young children that were separated from their parents under the president's "zero tolerance"policy.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-orr-director-separated-migrant-families-no-system-to-reunite-children-with-parents-in-detention/

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That bastard occupying the White House is attempting to make it sound like his damned executive order to stop this crime (which he only days ago said wasn't possible) is going to fix everything when in fact that order is only good for 20 days. It's way past time for our repub Congress Critters to start impeachment proceedings.