A thread I found on tweeter from Yontan Zunger about ICE separating children from parents.

[icymist]

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Here's the underlying news story. 1,475 of the over 7,000 children which ICE has seized from their parents are missing and unaccounted for - and will probably never be reunited with their parents.

I do not have words for how I feel right now.

From The AZ Republic:
Montini: The feds lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children

The Trump administration recently announced a new, get-tough policy that will separate parents from their children if the family is caught crossing the border illegally.

It was a big news story. So big it overshadowed the fact that the federal government has lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children in its custody.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told Congress that within 48 hours of being taken into custody the children are transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services, which finds places for them to stay.

“They will be separated from their parent,” said Democratic Sen Kamala Harris.

“Just like we do in the United States every day,” Nielsen replied.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/05/22/immigration-children-separate-families-lost-kirstjen-nielson/631627002/

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Observe the numbers. Over 7,000 taken, 1,475 lost - and this is the first report. The project is still spinning up. The final numbers will be much, much, higher.

[icymist]

1. This is happening right under our noses.

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I covered the trans-Saharan/Mediterranean migration crisis, and this, from the United States, is among the cruelest and most dehumanizing immigration policies I've ever heard of.

[RandomAccess]

2. I can promise y ou

Most if not all of those nearly 1500 children ended up being trafficked as sex slaves. Mark my words. And no, they'll likely never be found or accounted for, and the perps are unlikely to be caught either tho I believe there is a slight chance they'll be brought to justice.

(Justice to ME would include being hung by their nuts, but -- that's probably not going to happen even if they are caught.)

[DBoon]

4. and these people fantasize about pedophile rings in pizza parlor basements

while taking real children away from their parents

[dawg]

3. Cruelty for cruelty's sake.

Our nation has a sickness in its soul.

[icymist]

5. Trump on Abused Immigrant Children: "They're Not Innocent" (The more I read the sicker I get)

In April of 2017, when Donald Trump ordered his first missile strike in Syria, the president said that he was moved by the images of children killed in suspected chemical attacks. It was a rare moment of Trump being moved by compassion, and it hasn't been replicated.

Now the Trump administration, and John Kelly in particular, have been criticized for its decision to break up families crossing the border illegally, and for their careless planning about what to do with those children one they're shoved into detention centers on military bases. But Trump is doubling down, claiming that those children are nothing more than criminals in the future. Per the Washington Post:

Immigrant advocates have long said that the children, primarily from Central America, are fleeing violence in their home countries and seeking safe harbor in the United States. But the Trump administration has used their plight to justify cracking down on policies that allow these migrants to be released and obtain hearings before immigration judges, rather than being deported immediately.

“We have the worst immigration laws of any country, anywhere in the world,” Trump said at the roundtable held at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. “They exploited the loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors.”

Trump added: “They look so innocent. They’re not innocent.”

https://www.gq.com/story/trump-on-immigrant-children

[icymist]

6. And so it starts. Neighbors will be disappeared in the night.

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See also:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210654392