Note, the HHS Inspector General is saying these thousands more children separated happened before a judge required the trump admin to have an accounting of the number of children separated. As if that is a good excuse for the trump admin to not already have such an accounting?
SMH... Trump admin weighed targeting migrant families, speeding up deportation of children A draft plan obtained by NBC News also shows officials wanted to specifically target parents in migrant families for increased prosecutions. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/im...amilies-speeding-deportation-children-n958811
Trump and His Company Are No Aliens to Undocumented Workers while President Trump was still holding countless American workers hostage so he could demonstrate his resolve against undocumented immigrants, his company quietly fired nearly half of the people who were working at one of the Trump’s golf clubs — because they were undocumented immigrants. the fired employees have all said that their managers had already known they were undocumented and it had never been a problem before, until the recent Govt shutdown over the border wall. The Latin American workers who worked at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester, according to WaPo, included employee-of-the-month winners and people who had been working there for well over a decade. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...ny-are-no-aliens-to-undocumented-workers.html
This was pointed out very early on. The Gov has no plan in place to reunite these kids. They put a plan in place to separate, but have no plan in place to reunite. That was one main point of the "cruelty" of this admin policy.
Family separations are still happening? Migrant families still being separated at the border, report from Texas group says The report comes roughly eight months since the government formally ended the policy. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino...arated-border-report-texas-group-says-n973766
The Washington Post is reporting a sharp spike in border crossings in February, leading officials to predict even higher numbers later this year: The number of migrants taken into custody last year jumped 39 percent from February to March, and a similar increase this month would push levels to 100,000 detentions or more. It was a surge in the border numbers in March 2018 that infuriated President Trump and launched his administration’s attempt to deter families by separating children from their parents. Trump stopped the separations six weeks later to quell public outrage. But the controversy the policy generated — and its widely publicized reversal — is now viewed by U.S. agents as the moment that opened the floodgates of family migration even wider, worsening the problem it was meant to fix. . . . “The numbers are staggering, and we’re incredibly worried that we will see another huge increase in March,” said a Homeland Security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the unpublished figures. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...pected-to-surge-again/?utm_term=.7904a6bd8516
more coverage of the "surge" in illegal border crossings: https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/illegal-border-crossings-breaks-record-again including this essay at Mother Jones: "Nice work, Donald! Whatever we were doing back in the Obama era seems to have been working OK. Whatever we’re doing now—mostly yelling and screaming, as near as I can tell—isn’t. Maybe it’s time to rethink the whole idea that Trump is the guy who can protect our borders?" https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-d...er-crossings-have-doubled-under-donald-trump/
I think it's truly beautiful how no one talks about the responsibility of parents who bring their kids along when they try to cross the border illegally. OTOH, this thread is 59 pages long, so maybe it was discussed.
Because of course, nielsen could not have ever anticipated that she would be asked that question in the hearing....
