Trump administration weighs new family-separation effort at border
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Source: washpost
October 12 at 2:30 PM
The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States, according to several administration officials with direct knowledge of the effort.
One option under consideration is for the government to detain asylum-seeking families together for up to 20 days, then give parents a choice — stay in family detention with their child for months or years as their immigration case proceeds, or allow children to be taken to a government shelter so other relatives or guardians can seek custody.
That option — called “binary choice” — is one of several under consideration amid the president’s frustration over border security. Trump has been unable to fulfill key promises to build a border wall and end what he calls “catch and release,” a process that began under past administrations in which most detained families are quickly freed to await immigration hearings. The number of migrant family members arrested and charged with illegally crossing the border jumped 38 percent in August and is now at a record level, according to Department of Homeland Security officials.
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Lawyers have also raised questions about the legality of splitting up families, even if parents sign waivers to do so. A Congressional Research Service report last month said releasing families together in the United States is “the only clearly viable option under current law.”.........................................
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/trump-administration-weighs-new-family-separation-effort-at-border/2018/10/12/45895cce-cd7b-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html?utm_term=.5fe7d2d71430
#familiesbelongtogether.
Metaphor--get out the pitchforks!! [not advocating Violence] Please call your Senators and Reps of all
stripes. We can not allow another separation --this can not go on!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/trump-administration-weighs-new-family-separation-effort-at-border/2018/10/12/45895cce-cd7b-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html?utm_term=.5fe7d2d71430
Two young mothers from Honduras, with their children, are detained by Border Patrol after rafting across the Rio Grande in Granjeno, Tex., in June. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
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