Trump's Office of Refugee Resettlement Is Budgeting for a Surge in Child Separations

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Source: Slate

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is preparing for the possibility of another surge in family separations. Internal documents obtained by Slate show that ORR has modeled a scenario in which the Trump administration’s border policies could require the detention of thousands more immigrant children.

ORR—an agency within the Administration for Children and Families, which is itself a division of the Department of Health and Human Services—was caught off guard by the family separation policy, the documents reveal. In April, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice would henceforth have “zero tolerance” for immigrants who cross the border without authorization. He expanded the policy in May by partnering with the Department of Homeland Security to prosecute immigrants for unlawful border crossing, a misdemeanor. Under zero tolerance, parents are imprisoned, and children are placed in ORR shelters, sometimes far from the border.

There are currently about 11,800 children in ORR’s care. Alex Azar, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has stated that somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 of those children were separated from their parents at the border. The remaining children in ORR custody are unaccompanied minors—children who crossed the border without a parent or guardian.

Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/trumps-office-of-refugee-resettlement-is-budgeting-for-a-surge-in-child-separations.html

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[Phoenix61]

1. I wondered where they were getting the money from nt

[ancianita]

2. State sponsored child abduction is an international crime.

[pangaia]

3. a "...surge in family separations...." doesn't just happen, like oh, an earthquake.

Some sick human being causes it !

[Frustratedlady]

4. What are these "caregivers" being paid? Is this another $700/day deal?

This needs to be investigated. Are these "caregivers" rich republican elites like Betsy DeVos making money off their care? Who requires $700/day for care? This is republican fraud at the worst...using children to make money. Same with the private jails.

[notdarkyet]

5. It's a scheme to rob the treasury, it has been from the beginning. At the expense of children

Who don’t deserve this. Disgusting people, everyone of them involved. They should be locked up.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. They SAY "The remaining children in ORR custody are unaccompanied minors"

The truth is that once they get a kid, esp. one who looks to be adoptable, so the younger the better, they tell a court the kid is unaccompanied, the court declares the kid to be an orphan, and the adoption agency can let someone "adopt" the kid.

Except they are literally selling the kids. Bethany Child Services has a web site. And on the website you can find the info. on adoption. and the prices, which are in the tens of thousands of dollars.
This is also the org. that Betsy Duh Vos and her husband have been involved with.
Bethany dot org.

When the full story comes out, people are going to be sick over it.

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. Make it stop.