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This past Sunday marked one month since Judge Dana Sabraw’s family reunification deadline, but hundreds of migrant families remain separated, “the children rendered effectively as orphans and wards of the U.S. government,” The Washington Post said in a recent editorial.
According to the latest numbers released by the Trump administration, 528 migrant children—including 23 kids age 5 and under—remain separated from their parents and under U.S. custody. The parents of 343 children—including six kids age 5 and under—were already deported. Reunifications, MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff tweeted, are “barely moving.”
During the previous update, the administration said that 565 children remained under custody. But “instead of scrambling to fix the catastrophe they created,” America’s Voice said in a statement Friday, “the Trump administration continues to drag its feet and the pace of reunifications has slowed to a crawl,” despite being court-ordered to return these kidnapped children to their parents.
When it comes to the parents of deported children, “a committee coordinated by the [American Civil Liberties Union] has managed to reach about 230 of those parents, most of them by phone, the large majority in Honduras and Guatemala,” The Washington Post continued. Many of these families fled to the U.S. for their lives. Instead, these children will probably be deported back to the danger they tried to escape.
Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristjen Nielsen, Health and Human Services Sec. Alex Azar, and Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III are just some of the Trump administration officials who committed “bureaucratic barbarism on an epic scale,” yet not one one has been fired or punished. What exactly are Republican leaders doing to address this crisis? Nothing—they’re too busy cooking up fake controversies. Enough. Do not forget the children. Do not rest until they’re free and in the arms of their parents once again. Do not forget who jailed them all in the first place.
