As Donald Trump tries to manufacture an “immigration crisis” to rile up his racist voters and possibly justify the implementation of family separation 2.0, 44 migrant children already kidnapped from the arms of parents at the southern border continue to remain under U.S. custody nearly 100 past a federal judge’s reunification deadline, according to the most recently available data.
Of these kids, tweeted MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, the parents of 33 have already been deported. 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. This is criminal, yet not one single high-level Trump official has been forced to resign or been punished for violating a federal judge’s court order.
Now in the closing days of the election, he won’t shut up about a fake crisis that he’ll forget the morning of November 7 should Republicans lose their grip on Congress. What he’s not talking about, however, are the 1,500 kids languishing in a prison camp in the Texas desert, the overall record number of migrant kids the Trump administration has in detention, and the forgotten children who continue to remain separated from parents. Remember them, and vote.
”It's more important than ever this week to remember the children who have still not been reunited with their families after this administration separated them at the border months ago,” tweeted former Secretary of State and 2016 popular vote winner Hillary Clinton earlier this week. “Vote to repudiate this horrendous policy. Vote to reject the bigotry that led to it.”
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