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US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019

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US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019


This month, new government data shows the little girl is one of an unprecedented 69,550 migrant children held in U.S. government custody over the past year, enough infants, toddlers, kids and teens to overflow the typical NFL stadium. That’s more children detained away from their parents than any other country, according to United Nations researchers. And it’s happening even though the U.S. government has acknowledged that being held in detention can be traumatic for children, putting them at risk of long-term physical and emotional damage.


Some of these migrant children who were in government custody this year have already been deported. Some have reunited with family in the U.S., where they’re trying to go to school and piece their lives back together. About 4,000 are still in government custody, some in large, impersonal shelters. And more arrive every week.


Posted just so the voters of this great nation don't forget what it government has been doing. This is a human rights abuse, pure and simple, and needs to be acknowledged for what it is and the damage being done mitigated in any way possible.


Reuniting these families should be priority #1, don't you agree?
 
Not only held them, but effectively orphaned many, then put them up for adoption. How evil is that?
 
Then maybe they should stop coming here illegally.
 
Stephen Miller probably approves.
 
Then maybe they should stop coming here illegally.

If we can't stop them by asking them not to come, maybe we should come up with a more humane way to deal with it, without enriching detention centers and traumatizing children. For having someone who is so "tough on immigration" in charge and still having these record numbers, it doesn't seem like much is actually being done to try and stop them from coming.
 
Gullable fools. More were detained under Obama in 2015
 
There was a huge influx of unaccompanied children i.e. children with no parents to be removed from during Obama's last years, particularly 2016, and especially from Central America. Number of Children Illegally Crossing Border Up 1,200 Percent Between2011 and 2014 - Washington Free Beacon

Correct. Now, the Trump sycophants are saying that Obama removed unaccompanied children from their parents, and that somehow makes it OK. Surely, even a Trumper can see that it's not possible to remove unaccompanied children from their parents, can't they? No? Well, I suppose that sort of gullibility is how Trump was able to defraud so many and get away with it.
 
Correct. Now, the Trump sycophants are saying that Obama removed unaccompanied children from their parents, and that somehow makes it OK. Surely, even a Trumper can see that it's not possible to remove unaccompanied children from their parents, can't they? No? Well, I suppose that sort of gullibility is how Trump was able to defraud so many and get away with it.

The data is what it is. The facts are what they are. ICE, under Obama, did engage in a very suspect policy of removing the man from families and dropping them back across the Mexican border hundreds of miles away from the rest of the family was picked up. I don't know if these decisions then or now are made at the White House level or a lower level TBH. Many of the unaccompanied Honduran children moved this way after the coup that Hillary/Obama ratified. Immigration is a problem. Conditions in Central America are a problem. I don't see that either party really addresses the root causes in any meaningful way besides arguing who gets in and who doesn't.
 
Obama did not initiate the policy of removing children from their families as a way of discouraging asylum seekers. That was Trump.


Aaaaand still, more were held by Obama in 2015 than Trump in 2019 with the policy.
 
The data is what it is. The facts are what they are. ICE, under Obama, did engage in a very suspect policy of removing the man from families and dropping them back across the Mexican border hundreds of miles away from the rest of the family was picked up. I don't know if these decisions then or now are made at the White House level or a lower level TBH. Many of the unaccompanied Honduran children moved this way after the coup that Hillary/Obama ratified. Immigration is a problem. Conditions in Central America are a problem. I don't see that either party really addresses the root causes in any meaningful way besides arguing who gets in and who doesn't.

Agreed that neither party really has addressed the root causes of the problem of asylum seekers from Central America, nor the problem of illegal immigration. Instead, they have made the issues into political footballs.

This thread is about removing children from their parents as a way of discouraging asylum seekers. The Trump sycophants seem to think that's OK, because it was a policy initiated by Trump. They also seem to think that Trump was telling the truth when he said the policy was that of Obama, and that he ended it.

How anyone can continue to believe anything Trump says is a mystery.
 
Aaaaand still, more were held by Obama in 2015 than Trump in 2019 with the policy.

So, it's OK to take children from their parents as a policy.

Confirmed: Trumpers will excuse anything that Trump says or does.
 
Is this thread intended to promote finishing the wall? Most of the logic is pointed in that direction. Fortunately, the number of unaccompanied children has dropped sharply in the last six months
 
US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019





Posted just so the voters of this great nation don't forget what it government has been doing. This is a human rights abuse, pure and simple, and needs to be acknowledged for what it is and the damage being done mitigated in any way possible.


Reuniting these families should be priority #1, don't you agree?

No, because the vast majority of these children are unaccompanied minors. One can absolutely question the conditions they are held in but the detention itself is not a human rights abuse. What do you propose the government do when it finds thousands of children wandering around in the desert alone? Leave them there to die?
 
So, it's OK to take children from their parents as a policy.

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????? Yes, when parents are incarcerated for violating the law, they don't get to take their kids with them. It applies equally to the single American mom with 2 kids busted for possession and illegal border crossers. Keep em on the other side of a 20ft wall so we don't have to deal with the difficult situation of children with criminals as parents.
 
????? Yes, when parents are incarcerated for violating the law, they don't get to take their kids with them. It applies equally to the single American mom with 2 kids busted for possession and illegal border crossers. Keep em on the other side of a 20ft wall so we don't have to deal with the difficult situation of children with criminals as parents.

Because it's not a comparable situation.

I'm sure you love these large government programs that use billions of our taxpayer money to detain children away from their parents but some of us prefer to be a humane country that can detain them together at the border and try and apply some logic to get the situation sorted out and handled by law.
 
Is this thread intended to promote finishing the wall?


Noooooo. Intended to promote not arresting illegal border crossers with kids. Have em sign a piece of paper and send them on their way. Provide assistance if they need any. Id advocate for a wall. Keep them on the other side and no need to do any separating.
 
Because it's not a comparable situation.
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Of course they are. A single American mom just doesn't warrant the same concern from you as a Honduran immigrant does.
 
If we can't stop them by asking them not to come, maybe we should come up with a more humane way to deal with it, without enriching detention centers and traumatizing children..

Wall would do that. Stories of Honduran families camped out next to a 20 ft wall wondering what to do will get back to the homeland and deter additional attempts.
 
Of course they are. A single American mom just doesn't warrant the same concern from you as a Honduran immigrant does.

No, if an American woman is taken to prison her children are not put into a for profit detention center. That's why we have foster care programs if there is no family member able to step up. Try again.
 
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Wall would do that. Stories of Honduran families camped out next to a 20 ft wall wondering what to do will get back to the homeland and deter additional attempts.

A wall will only have them walk a little more to the coyote who dug a hole for them.

Knowing they have work and benefits on the other side of said wall with a much increased standard of living, nothing will stop them from trying to get over/under that wall.
 
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