It will take years to get to the bottom of the Trump administration's cruel policy of separating migrant families in the name of enforcement of the U.S. immigration laws. Some families still have not been reunited.
Check out this PBS documentary. The description from YouTube:
"The story of a Honduran family’s struggle to reunite after being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border three years earlier under the Trump administration’s immigration policies. . . .
Anavelis, whose then-six-year-old daughter, Genesis, was taken from her in 2018 after the duo crossed into the United States, said, `When I got there it became hell, a nightmare that has been tormenting me all these years.'
Anavelis was deported back to Honduras without her daughter.
Several years later, many families separated under Trump’s `zero tolerance' policy had been reunited, but hundreds of children, like Genesis, were still in the U.S. waiting for their parents to be allowed to return.
This documentary chronicles Anavelis’ quest to reunite with Genesis and offers insight into the work of a Biden administration task force charged with reuniting families like theirs. . . .
CHAPTERS:
Mother and Daughter Separated Under “Zero Tolerance” - 00:05
Efforts to Locate Families Separated at the U.S. Border - 6:52
Biden Administration’s Task Force to Reunite Families - 11:03
There are few tragedies worse than losing a child, but I don't think the problem was due entirely to the fact that parents who were prosecuted for illegal entries were separated from their children. I would attribute most of the blame to gross incompetence in keeping track of where the children were. If parents could not be prosecuted for crimes because it would result in separation from their children, our criminal justice system would collapse.
According to a March 2021 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 684,500 state and federal prisoners were parents of at least one minor child in 2016—nearly half of state prisoners (47%) and more than half of federal prisoners (58%).
There are few tragedies worse than losing a child, but I don't think the problem was due entirely to the fact that parents who were prosecuted for illegal entries were separated from their children. I would attribute most of the blame to gross incompetence in keeping track of where the children were. If parents could not be prosecuted for crimes because it would result in separation from their children, our criminal justice system would collapse.
According to a March 2021 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an estimated 684,500 state and federal prisoners were parents of at least one minor child in 2016—nearly half of state prisoners (47%) and more than half of federal prisoners (58%).
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/parents-prison-and-their-minor-children-survey-prison-inmates-2016
Posted by: Rappaport Nolan | Dec 9, 2022 2:56:00 PM