As ICE separates children from parents at the border, public outrage grows

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

How does one “lose” almost 1,500 children?

Last month, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the administration for children and families (ACF), announced at a Senate hearing that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement — which is to say, an office he oversees — was “unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 children between October and December.”

As Mother Jones reports:

The Trump administration is seeking to criminally prosecute everyone who crosses the US-Mexico border, including parents. The policy is likely to separate thousands of families who arrive at the border by placing parents into the criminal justice system. Without their parents, children will be placed into the custody of ORR.

In March, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration for forcibly removing young children from their parents who are awaiting asylum hearings. The class action lawsuit “claims the practice by government agencies of separating young children from their families violates the Due Process Clause and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The lawsuit represents a proposed class of ‘hundreds of individuals whose minor children have already been taken from them.’”

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted excerpts from the lawsuit on Friday, pointing to one case in particular — a mother who said she has not seen her 18-month-old son since he was taken from her a month before — “a moral abomination, and a national shame.” Friday evening, Hayes dedicated a segment of “All In” to what he called Trump’s “despicable” policy and its affect on families who come to the United States seeking asylum — so, as Hayes points out, “not trying to sneak in.”

https://thinkprogress.org/as-ice-separates-children-from-parents-at-the-border-public-outrage-grows-c624e69cd43f/

[dewsgirl]

1. This is a horrifying scenario, one I don't think anyone

Imagined.

[RockRaven]

2. Trump's also trying to blame Democrats for it

Why? Because Trump is THAT MUCH of a coward. He can't even say "yeah, I did it, so what?" when questioned by a reporter, while he gladly takes credit for it at a friendly campaign rally. Not just a moral monster, but a weakling too.

[lunatica]

14. Pure evil

No matter how much they try to justify it.

[Demsrule86]

15. Yeah someone here posted that it was Obama's fault yesterday which is simply not true.

[spanone]

3. this policy is an abomination of all America once stood for.

[smirkymonkey]

4. I just can't believe how evil and wrong this is.

I hate to think of what those families must be going through, especially the children. They must be terrified.

[Roland99]

5. Anyone check for basements in pizza places near Marscow-a-lago?

[mountain grammy]

6. If this isn't the number one topic on every Sunday talk show,

it's over. America is over.

[First Speaker]

7. America may not be over--at least yet. But the "media" will be exposed as utterly corrupt...

...which is hardly a surprise to anybody...

[mountain grammy]

9. True that!

[Duppers]

10. +10

[C Moon]

8. And this ass wants a nobel peace prize. I say give it to him where the sun don't shine.

[TDale313]

12. This is intentional terror, pure and simple.

This is meant to send a message that we will steal your children from you permanently- and they will likely be subjected to unspeakable horrors- if we catch you trying to immigrate illegally- particularly if you are a person of color. It’s sickening, and that’s the point. We have lost our soul as a country.

[Cha]

13. The demagogue is gaslighting us. His administration adopted a brutal new policy that causes the mass

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