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85 days past a federal judge’s reunification order, 66 children kidnapped from their parents at the border continue to remain under U.S. custody, according to numbers released this week by the administration. One of these 66 children is aged 5 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.
But even kids who are being moved for reunification continue to be traumatized. Earlier this month, officials returned a 4-year-old to her home country without first informing her parents. “When Karla, a pseudonym HuffPost is using to protect the child’s identity, arrived in Guatemala, no one came to pick her up at a reunification center near the airport.” Karla ended up spending yet another unnecessary night “in a government-run shelter.”
So who has been held accountable for this cruelty? Not one high-level official. Trump’s administration “is still inflicting intentional harm on children it separated from their parents, many of whom have yet to be reunited,” tweeted U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon. “Trump is now talking about resuming child snatching. They're unable and unwilling to fix this mess. But we can fix it. November is coming.”
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