Trump administration will fingerprint child migrants' parents

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

U.S.MAY 29, 2018 / 5:45 PM / UPDATED 28 MINUTES AGO
Yeganeh Torbati

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will soon begin fingerprinting parents claiming custody of children who entered the United States illegally without an adult relative, officials said on Tuesday, prompting criticism that children may be abandoned by those who fear being identified and deported.

Currently, most parents are not required to be fingerprinted to get custody of their children.

U.S. laws and legal precedent limit the time juveniles can be detained, so those caught crossing the border alone are often released to adult sponsors in the United States. The children are then expected to show up to immigration court to fight their deportation cases.

“We’re going to more thoroughly vet sponsors,” said Steven Wagner, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families, in a telephone briefing with reporters. “With DHS’ cooperation we will conduct a fingerprint-based background check on every sponsor.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children/trump-administration-will-fingerprint-child-migrants-parents-idUSKCN1IU2VF?rpc=401&

[George II]

1. How long before we see the 21st century version of this?

[Still In Wisconsin]

2. Not long, if they complete their takeover of our system of government.

Trump has expressed admiration for Nazi "efficiency" in the past. You know there are groups he would love to exterminate.

[Igel]

4. What *do* you do?

A 12-year-old kid shows up at the border. No parents, no guardian.

Do you say, "Okay, here's the US, enjoy"?

Do you put him in a home, and make him a ward of the state ... Note that there's no basis in Federal law for that. (And all immigration issues *must*, we're insistently reminded, are the sole province of the Federal government.)

Do you place him with those saying they're relatives or friends of the family?

Do you listen to his (her) accent and figure out exactly where the kid's from ... and put him on a plane to return?

What?

We judge. But we have no better solution. That kind of judgment is facile.

[sandensea]

3. Something Cheeto will have to get used to himself.

As well as most of his rump regime.

[pazzyanne]

5. Not one word about keeping track of where the children go.

Social Services not only "vets" children removed from their US parents, but those kids are followed by social workers. Shows the lack of understanding and incompetence of those who have ordered this to be done. Fingerprinting does not cut it in my book.