Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 02:52 PM Jul 2018

'Deleted' families: What went wrong with Trump's family-separation effort

By Nick Miroff, Amy Goldstein and Maria Sacchetti
July 28 at 1:15 PM

When a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunify migrant families separated at the border, the government’s cleanup crews faced an immediate problem. They weren’t sure who the families were, let alone what to call them.

Customs and Border Protection databases had categories for “family units,” and “unaccompanied alien children” who arrive without parents. They did not have a distinct classification for more than 2,600 children who had been stripped away from their families and placed in government shelters.

So agents came up with a new term: “deleted family units.” But when they sent that information to the refugee office at the Department of Health and Human Services, which was told to facilitate the reunifications, the office’s database didn’t have a column for such families.

The crucial tool for fixing the problem was crippled. Case workers and government health officials had to sift by hand through the files of all the nearly 12,000 migrant children in HHS custody to figure out which ones had arrived with parents, where the adults were jailed and how to put them back together.

more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/deleted-families-what-went-wrong-with-trumps-family-separation-effort/2018/07/28/54bcdcc6-90cb-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html

1 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
'Deleted' families: What went wrong with Trump's family-separation effort (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2018 OP
"Deleted"? What's next? "Neutralized"? Girard442 Jul 2018 #1
Latest Discussions»General Discussion»'Deleted' families: What ...