This is from a few days ago, but I forgot to post it (a lot happening lately), but I thought my #Separated reading group might find this update interesting.
@BarbaraTheBibliophage @MallenNC
So now all of them, even the asylum seekers who have proven credible threats to their lives, are made to wait in Mexico or in the country they came from (where the threat is) until their court date. Trump has used COVID to “immediately expelling virtually all asylum seekers” COVID allowed him to do what he had been trying to accomplish for the past 3 years. 😢
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We may never know how many they actually separated, because they willfully refused to keep track of those they separated, and deported some in the interim (separately). 😢
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And when the parents finally got transferred (this one out of a maximum security prison) to an immigrant detention center, finally got to apply for asylum, was approved by a judge...he still had to come up with $2,500 bond before he could be released....and then he could start working on getting reunited with his son. Thank goodness for great volunteers!
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As soon as they separated children from their families, they immediately labeled them “unaccompanied”, so the goal was to separate, label the kids as unaccompanied and then immediately deport the children ALONE back to their country of origin while indefinitely detaining the parents in US prisons for entering illegally.
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*Katie Waldman, now Katie Miller
They couldn‘t even reunite them efficiently... leaving children under 5 waiting in vans all day and in some cases through the night.
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