President Donald Trump on Wednesday stopped his administration’s widely condemned policy of separating children from their parents at the border, but one big question lingers: What happens to the nearly 2,500 children already in federal custody?
No one seems to really know.
“There will not be a grandfathering of existing cases,” a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said of Trump’s executive order, according to the New York Times.
According to the HHS, there are no plans to reunite families in the near future, and children already being detained will remain there while their parents’ cases go through the legal system. The HHS said existing policies apply to those children, meaning that it’s up to the parents to find their children, which, if the parents are in custody as well, may be impossible.
Furthermore, a report by The New Yorker earlier this week found authorities had no system in place for tracking where detained children were, or for reuniting them with their parents.
“There is no system whatsoever to track these family separations, no efforts systematically to reunite these families,” Anthony Enriquez of Catholic Charities told the New York Times on Wednesday. “There is no supervisor, there is no database saying, ‘child here, parent there,’ so they can come back together.”
The party of personal responsibility?
Thanks Trump. You own this debacle, along with your enablers. You did not resolve anything with your EO today. You MUST make these kids/families whole again, or you will be forever tainted by this, and by extension, the reputation of this once great nation. You and your enablers are one sorry POS.
May God have mercy on your souls.
Why do people of other nations hate us again?
Buckitrue! WWJD?
No one seems to really know.
“There will not be a grandfathering of existing cases,” a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said of Trump’s executive order, according to the New York Times.
According to the HHS, there are no plans to reunite families in the near future, and children already being detained will remain there while their parents’ cases go through the legal system. The HHS said existing policies apply to those children, meaning that it’s up to the parents to find their children, which, if the parents are in custody as well, may be impossible.
Furthermore, a report by The New Yorker earlier this week found authorities had no system in place for tracking where detained children were, or for reuniting them with their parents.
“There is no system whatsoever to track these family separations, no efforts systematically to reunite these families,” Anthony Enriquez of Catholic Charities told the New York Times on Wednesday. “There is no supervisor, there is no database saying, ‘child here, parent there,’ so they can come back together.”
The party of personal responsibility?
Thanks Trump. You own this debacle, along with your enablers. You did not resolve anything with your EO today. You MUST make these kids/families whole again, or you will be forever tainted by this, and by extension, the reputation of this once great nation. You and your enablers are one sorry POS.
May God have mercy on your souls.
Why do people of other nations hate us again?
Buckitrue! WWJD?
