Thread: No special effort planned to reunite migrant families already separated: report

No special effort planned to reunite migrant families already separated: report

06/20/18 06:54 PM EDT




There will be no special effort from the Trump administration to reunite migrant families separated at the border, according to a report from The New York Times, despite President Trump signing an executive order halting the practice.

The Times cites a Health and Human Services (HHS) Department official as saying that the children will not immediately be reunited with their families while their parents are detained throughout their immigration proceedings.

“There will not be a grandfathering of existing cases,” Kenneth Wolfe, spokesman for the Administration for Children and Families, part of HHS, told The Times.

The Hill has reached out to HHS for further comment.

Wolfe said that the decision about the children would be ultimately be handled by the White House, but said “I can tell you definitively that is going to be policy.”

The administration has faced backlash this week for its zero-tolerance policy of separating migrant families illegally crossing the border.

Trump on Wednesday signed an order order intended to end family separations at the border, a practice which has come under bipartisan and global criticism.

“We’re going to have strong, very strong borders, but we’re going to keep the families together,” Trump said. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.”

Justice Department officials told The Times that they did not know whether the policy would resume in 20 days if a federal judge does not give the government power to keep families together a longer period of time.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...eady-separated

4 kids separated from parents at border reunited with family IN GUATEMALA

REUNITE 4 MILLION OF THEM AND SEND THEM BACK!

Trump tells federal agencies to reunite families at border

Those unaccompanied minor's need to be placed in Foster Care in their country!

Hand them over into the care and custody of THEIR President.

We cannot take in every child from around the world and pay for their foster care!

CUT OFF ALL FOREIGN AID TO PAY FOR AND CLEAN UP THIS MESS!

NOT ONE MORE DIME TO ANY COUNTRY...WE NEED TO FIX THIS NOW!