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WashPost Editorial–“Let’s not mince words. The Trump administration KIDNAPPED CHILDREN.”
“The administration’s immorality & cruelty in tearing migrant toddlers away from their parents was faithfully carrying out the wishes of the president himselfhttps://t.co/5Xdpr0vzOS
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) October 22, 2020
Most people have heard of the awful practice being implemented by the Trump Administration to separate immigrant children from their parents at the border.
Here are a few useful related resources:
‘Horrendous’: How Migrant Children Are Separated at Border https://t.co/0EMzoUiNF3
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 7, 2018
District Court Judge Denounces Forced Child Separation as “Brutal” and Clear Constitutional Violation https://t.co/MQqnCsIIvW
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 7, 2018
“I hear firsthand stories that illustrate the severe impact of family separation on children; to say they are terrorized and completely devastated is an understatement.” https://t.co/T3xBmCBzYg
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 6, 2018
A Democratic Senator from Oregon tried to enter a federal facility in Texas housing child refugees. Officials denied him entrance. He told @TIME that the administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy is actually “zero-humanity.” https://t.co/MXHVGesFEW
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) June 6, 2018
Separating children from migrant families entering the U.S. violates their rights and international law, the UN’s human rights office said https://t.co/jv5WzHB7ae
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 5, 2018
The Trump admin says the way to avoid family separation is to present for asylum at a port of entry.
Except that border agents are — physically — stopping some asylum-seekers from getting to ports of entry. https://t.co/BnDHXfPWh6
— Dara Lind (@DLind) June 5, 2018
Wrong. Laws that govern treatment of immigrant children include 2002 Homeland Security Act (passed by GOP House, signed by W) and 2008 human trafficking bill (passed unanimously by Congress, signed by W). It’s @realDonaldTrump “zero-tolerance” policy that increased separations. https://t.co/WbpQP7f1Mt
— Alan Gomez (@alangomez) June 5, 2018
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is calling on the Trump administration to “immediately halt” its policy of separating children from their parents after crossing U.S. border with Mexico. https://t.co/4IUaYCAZMz
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 5, 2018
The Trump administration’s policy of separating children and parents at the border: a cruel new policy with historical precedent https://t.co/rVgjsUfm5g
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 4, 2018
The preponderance of the data suggest that children should be raised by families. So why separate immigrant families? https://t.co/yD6uNWsL5A
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) May 31, 2018
“I was only given five minutes to say goodbye,” said a Salvadoran woman who was separated from her child at the border https://t.co/wcLtDGqdAX
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) May 31, 2018
The real immigration crisis isn’t “missing” children. It’s family separations. https://t.co/Sgv7fppGiq
— Vox (@voxdotcom) May 30, 2018
“The Trump administration’s policy of splitting up families is creating a burgeoning population of dislocated and frightened children, held in makeshift detention centers near the border… or scattered in shelters and foster homes across the country.” https://t.co/DzsBX5DapI
— Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) June 10, 2018
Statistic Of The Day: 1,800 Immigrant Families Separated At Border
Here’s How You Can Help Parent Refugees & The Children Who Have Been Separated From Them https://t.co/0lHTGB2WG8
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 14, 2018
Trump might temporarily house immigrant kids taken from parents in “tent cities” https://t.co/I5xf7hkfMN
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 13, 2018
32 senators have introduced the ‘Keep Families Together Act’ to prevent DHS from cruelly separating children from their parents at the border https://t.co/RG3PwEz9lj
— marisa kabas (@MarisaKabas) June 12, 2018
Dozens of immigrant parents are being split from their children each day. This could be the new normal under Trump. https://t.co/IrW233ZCMA
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 11, 2018
The big Q is whether this policy will deter migrants.
In court, some had faced the same charge 2 weeks ago. One mom was returning to find her daughter.
“They’re still coming. I ask them why and they say, ‘It’s worse for us to stay.’”https://t.co/pKJdRXwoSp via @houstonchron
— lomikriel (@lomikriel) June 10, 2018
A youth care worker at a Southwest Key shelter in Tucson, Ariz., resigned this week because of what he called under-staffing and chronic problems.. he said conditions at the shelter have led to children running away and attempting suicide. https://t.co/vOd58R7WDQ
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 16, 2018
Dozens of immigrant families are being separated everyday. The Trump administration doesn’t seem to have a system to bring them back together. https://t.co/txv9Weyd9n
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 16, 2018
Pres. Trump says U.S. policy separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border is law. It’s not. https://t.co/opiij7Ltre pic.twitter.com/hl3H2gZXNv
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 16, 2018
How the Trump administration is using a rule meant to protect children to separate them from their parents — as part of an effort to scare people from trying to enter the country. https://t.co/GVuypLoqGG
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 16, 2018
The Trump administration said that it had separated 1,995 children from parents facing criminal prosecution for unlawfully crossing the border over a six-week period that ended last month https://t.co/thZISKOduE pic.twitter.com/0LyGAfrXfc
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 16, 2018
Pediatricians and immigrant advocates are warning that separating migrant children from their families can cause “toxic stress” that disrupts a child’s brain development and harms long-term health. https://t.co/fxXJQoxFS7
— NPR (@NPR) June 16, 2018
“These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history.” — Former First Lady Laura Bush https://t.co/vfl6Yye3qn
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) June 18, 2018
AP describes what it’s like inside one of the cages detaining migrant children at the Texas border https://t.co/gPMChwdl9T pic.twitter.com/wpnHv35PGQ
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 17, 2018
She was deported without her son and has no idea when they will reunite. Read about this separation in my article here: https://t.co/zzQagy8rqW pic.twitter.com/N3v4sM74vQ
— Miriam Jordan (@mirjordan) June 17, 2018
Why children are being sent to “foster care or whatever” while their parents are sent to jail. https://t.co/utLkONabJO
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 17, 2018
President Trump suggests he is using his administration’s separation of families at the US border as a negotiating tool to get Democrats to cave on his immigration demands, which include funding for a border wall https://t.co/XaJ9Lultgf pic.twitter.com/C2nwSI6JfO
— CNN (@CNN) June 16, 2018
Kids who cross the border meet with therapists and social workers. What they say can be used against them. https://t.co/7tsRn4eitn
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 18, 2018
This just in from @davidbegnaud: Border Patrol has reached out to @cbsthismorning and said they are “very uncomfortable” with the use of the word cages. They say it’s not inaccurate and added that they may be cages but people are not being treated like animals. pic.twitter.com/0zSDqJszgK
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) June 18, 2018
Ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden stands by comparisons of US ‘zero tolerance’ border policy resulting in separation of parents and kids to Nazi Germany: “I know we’re not Nazi Germany, but there is a commonality there and a fear on my part that we have standards we have to live up to” pic.twitter.com/Duj5MRaj1e
— New Day (@NewDay) June 18, 2018
“It reminded me, honestly, of going into an animal shelter”: CNN’s @DianneG got a chance to go inside an immigration processing center in McAllen, Texas https://t.co/WSS8ANp49d pic.twitter.com/t46VC2BGRf
— New Day (@NewDay) June 18, 2018
UPDATE: 48 senators now support the Keep Families Together Act. We’re making progress, but we still need Republicans to join. If you’re represented by a Republican senator, tell them to support S.3036. #KeepFamiliesTogether
— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) June 17, 2018
Statistic Of The Day: Trump Administration Planning On Holding 30,000 Refugee Children By August
The past 72 hours in outrage over Trump’s immigrant family separation policy, explained https://t.co/EWQnyWyYvi
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 18, 2018
The government shared PR images of a border detention center in Texas. They’re still horrifying. https://t.co/TFCaRDv4iz
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 18, 2018
The family separation crisis is a health crisis https://t.co/nReayv94qA
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 18, 2018
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” https://t.co/0uCx6r2XZp
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 18, 2018
JUST IN: With statement from Rosalynn Carter, all 4 living former First Ladies condemn Trump border family separation policy. https://t.co/kRt1Rjgr9Q
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 18, 2018
FLOWCHARTS! What is changing about the family separation policy — and what isn’t. https://t.co/ZOwJpITNZF
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 20, 2018
Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling https://t.co/6cWZLeG6ZU
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 20, 2018
Teachers Condemn Family Separations at the Border as ‘Child Abuse’ is from Ed Week.
There’s a Better, Cheaper Way to Handle Immigration https://t.co/eWGl9VRoyQ
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 24, 2018
Immigrants monitored with ankle bracelets showed up to 99.6% of their mandated court appearances. The program cost the government $4.50 per day. https://t.co/T0lisZvSdj
— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 23, 2018
Family Separations at the Border: What Educators Need to Know is from Colorin Colorado.
The research on race that helps explain Trump’s use of family separation at the border is from Vox.
There are schools inside the shelters and detention centers housing migrant children. With more kids staying longer, their job is getting a lot harder. Here’s what some of them are like, with @mannyNYT https://t.co/cOzvgPM5dw
— Dana Goldstein (@DanaGoldstein) July 6, 2018
Helluva “Welcome,” But I Guess It’s Better Than Jail & Family Separation
Good story idea for education reporters following the immigration debate — would love to hear/learn more about this https://t.co/nbaKxiBRZw
— Alexander (@alexanderrusso) July 10, 2018
Video: Trailer For “The Fight to Reunify Separated Families”
US school districts weigh duty to youth migrant shelters is from The Associated Press.
STATISTIC OF THE DAY: 500 IMMIGRANT CHILDREN STILL SEPARATED FROM PARENTS
STATE OF TEXAS SAYS “NO” TO TEACHING CHILDREN IN IMMIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS
‘Barbaric’: America’s cruel history of separating children from their parents is from The Washington Post.
How the Stress of Separation and Detention Changes the Lives of Children is from The New Yorker.
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