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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:40 PM Jun 2018

Administration will not reunite any children with parents in custody, Cabinet secretary says

Source: MSN/LA Times

The Trump administration will not reunite any migrant children with parents still held in immigrant detention facilities unless current federal law changes first, a top administration official told Congress on Tuesday.

The statement by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whose agency currently has custody of 2.047 children separated from their parents after being apprehended crossing the border illegally, confirmed what immigrant advocates have feared: The administration will reunite children with their parents quickly only if the parents drop their claims for asylum in the U.S. and agree to be deported.

Under administration policy, immigrants claiming asylum are held in detention awaiting a hearing — a process that can often take months or years. Because current law only allows children to be held in immigrant detention facilities for 20 days, his agency would not place any of the children with parents who are in those facilities, Azar said.

"If the parent remains in detention, unfortunately, under rules that are set by Congress and the courts, they can't be reunified while they're in detention," Azar said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/administration-will-not-reunite-any-children-with-parents-in-custody-cabinet-secretary-says/ar-AAzdixp?li=BBnbcA1

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pnwmom

(109,028 posts)
12. Obama had the consent decree but he did NOT do the same thing. He did NOT keep
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:34 PM
Jun 2018

the children separated from their parents.

He went back to interpreting the law the same way Bush did, and not enforcing it against families with children, who weren't guilty of any crimes except the misdemeanor of border crossing. He released them to approved housing situations, sometimes with an ankle monitor.

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
13. Every day everything is taken to the extremes.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:41 PM
Jun 2018

Everyone jumps straight to the worst possible explanation or definition. I believe youre right; and we all should take a breath and pay attention. Its like the SCOTUS decision on the bakery case. The decision didnt support the baker, it rebuked the lower court.

Efilroft Sul

(3,586 posts)
4. The terrorists continue to hold the children hostage unless their demands are met.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:59 PM
Jun 2018

When it's said this way, it makes much more sense.

Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)
5. if they are in custody as in being charged with a crime
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:00 PM
Jun 2018

or awaiting some such other legal proceeding i would expect not, that happens nowhere else in the US

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
7. It's about blackmailing democrats and they must hold steady...
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:06 PM
Jun 2018

Fuck trump, Ryan and McConnell..they made the mess and won't engage the democrats at all. It's painful to watch but be much worse if they bend

8. Agreed, Trump's still holding the kids as hostages to get the Dems to do what he wants.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:13 PM
Jun 2018

If you look in the dictionary under the words "immoral shithead," this is what you get:

kimbutgar

(21,290 posts)
11. I hope Saturday's actions are massive throughout the country
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:26 PM
Jun 2018

I want to see the traffic shutdown size crowds.

I can’t march the first part but I’ll be at the rally showing my support.

moondust

(20,031 posts)
16. Will they give them away?
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 04:34 AM
Jun 2018

Or sell them?

Lost children of Francoism (1930s)

...these children were kidnapped or forcefully repatriated by the Falange (Spanish fascists), and the children's names were changed so that they could be given to families in favor of the Francoist regime.[13] They never returned to their original families...

Up to 300,000 children were apparently taken from their (leftist) parents and given to ("racially superior," fascist) couples that supported Franco.
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