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More than 80 days past a federal judge’s reunification order, the children are still not with their parents. Tuesday, October 16, marks 82 days since Judge Dana Sabraw ordered Trump officials to reunite the thousands of migrant children who were kidnapped from the arms of parents at the southern border, yet 66 kids continue to remain separated from their parents and under U.S. custody, according to newly-released numbers from the administration.
One of these 66 children is aged five or under. Of the 66 kids, the parents of 50 have already been deported. Trump officials have struggled to reunite children with deported parents because of their own cruelty, after having torn apart families with no plan set in place on how to reunite them. Now, as 66 kids remain separated, Donald Trump is floating officially reviving family separation, both as an election strategy to rile up his base, and because White House aide and white supremacist Stephen Miller likes it.
Meanwhile, Trump is also bloating up his so-called “temporary” prison camp for unaccompanied migrant kids in the Texas desert, adding more time to the months some have already spent in Health and Human Services (HHS) custody rather than releasing them right away to sponsors, who are oftentimes relatives. This “temporary” prison camp was already been extended several times, going from 400 beds this past summer, to as many as 3,800 beds by the end of this year.
Enough. Children do not belong in detention. Help GOTV by signing up to write letters to unlikely voters in key districts so we can win a Democratic Congress that will finally hold officials accountable.