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
Demsrule86
(68,869 posts)chief.
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pnwmom
(109,028 posts)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.
progree
(10,958 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)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.
madaboutharry
(40,248 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)Mc Mike
(9,118 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)When it's said this way, it makes much more sense.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)or awaiting some such other legal proceeding i would expect not, that happens nowhere else in the US
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)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
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,604 posts)If you look in the dictionary under the words "immoral shithead," this is what you get:
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)kimbutgar
(21,290 posts)I want to see the traffic shutdown size crowds.
I cant march the first part but Ill be at the rally showing my support.
moondust
(20,031 posts)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.