ALERT: Hundreds of Children Are STILL Being Ripped From Parents at the Border

Evil doesn't rest.  While our blue wave led to a Democratic House majority that immediateld held Oversight Hearings on the Trump Family Separations, it's vital to realize this is still happening.  Children, babies, being ripped away from parents. 

Eight months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop separating parents and children at the US-Mexico border, families are still being separated.  Newly released government data shows nearly 250 parents have been separated from their children since June 26.

Meanwhile, a report released Thursday from the advocacy group Texas Civil Rights Project suggests that those separations might be dwarfed by the number of other relatives — siblings, aunts and uncles, grandparents, cousins — who bring a child to the US without her parents and are then separated from her by immigration agents.  

Separations of families that aren’t simply parent-child, though, aren’t included in the court order — or counted in separation statistics at all. 

This is called kidnapping.

Since [June 2018], the government claimed in a Wednesday night court filing, it’s separated 245 families that are excluded from that order. But advocates argue that some of the continued separations for often murky “law enforcement purposes” do violate the order to keep parents and children together.  

The injunction against separating families didn’t include parents who had a “criminal history.” But Lee Gelernt of the American Civil Liberties Union says that was mostly because Sabraw wanted to reunite as many families as possible as quickly as possible — it wasn’t intended to be a blanket statement that the government was allowed to separate parents with any past criminal record. Furthermore, “law enforcement” separations can happen for a much broader array of reasons — including suspicions that are difficult to disprove.

This is awful.

One father interviewed by TCRP was separated from his children in November after being accused by a CBP agent of being a gang member. The father’s lawyers investigated and found “no known criminal convictions in the United States or his home country of El Salvador, no tattoos indicating gang membership, and a long-time employer verified his good moral character.” That didn’t change CBP’s assessment or result in the father being reunited with his children.

In another case, lawyers found that a father seeking asylum for government persecution in his home country of Guatemala had been separated from his children because of an outstanding Guatemalan warrant. Upon checking with human rights defenders, the TCRP lawyers concluded that the warrant was retaliatory — and that it should serve as evidence in his asylum case, not of his unsuitability to care for children.

Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/21/18234767/parents-separated-children-families-border-trump-jails