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Children whose re-unification with their parents had been court ordered were held in vans in a Texas parking lot in July for up to 39 hours because no one was ready to process them. Some of them had been separated from their parents for months are were anticipating seeing them. Instead there was no one to greet them and they were forced to remain inside a vehicle for up to 39 hours in the blistering Texas sun by day. We would never have learned of this-and reportedly the parking lot was full of other vehicles-had it not been for an employee (after a mere 9 hours) complaining to a superior that there must be a better way than this to process children!
This baloney is not humane. And saying it is not humane is not an opinion. It is a law of nature if not God's word.
AGBF
"As the Trump administration was scrambling to reunify thousands of migrant families it had separated during a period of 'zero tolerance' immigration policy, it at one point in July 2018 held 37 children in vans for hours in the parking lot of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, NBC News reported Monday.
The administration, under a court order to reunify the families it had separated, struggled to process the backlog of children who needed to be reconnected to parents or guardians. The 37 children placed in vans on July 15, 2018, were sent from a Department of Health and Human Resources facility to be processed by ICE at an adults-only facility called Port Isabel Detention Center and returned to their families. The kids were all between 5 and 12 years old, and while some were reunited with their families in less than a day—the first left the van after 11 hours—most spent at least 23 hours in the vans, according to NBC News. The last child to be processed and reunited with a parent or guardian had spent two nights in a van, for a total of 39 hours."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/ice-migrant-children-vans-family-separations.html
This baloney is not humane. And saying it is not humane is not an opinion. It is a law of nature if not God's word.
AGBF
"As the Trump administration was scrambling to reunify thousands of migrant families it had separated during a period of 'zero tolerance' immigration policy, it at one point in July 2018 held 37 children in vans for hours in the parking lot of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, NBC News reported Monday.
The administration, under a court order to reunify the families it had separated, struggled to process the backlog of children who needed to be reconnected to parents or guardians. The 37 children placed in vans on July 15, 2018, were sent from a Department of Health and Human Resources facility to be processed by ICE at an adults-only facility called Port Isabel Detention Center and returned to their families. The kids were all between 5 and 12 years old, and while some were reunited with their families in less than a day—the first left the van after 11 hours—most spent at least 23 hours in the vans, according to NBC News. The last child to be processed and reunited with a parent or guardian had spent two nights in a van, for a total of 39 hours."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/ice-migrant-children-vans-family-separations.html