July 11, 2018

Trump child abuse update

Daily Beast - U.S. government officials recently told four immigrant women that they must pay for DNA tests in order to be reunited with their children, according to the shelter that housed the women.

The tests are the latest ad hoc effort by the Trump administration to reunite families it had separated—in some cases because authorities took documents from adults proving they are related to their children. The tests are being administered by a private contractor on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the care and housing of children. HHS has refused to name the contractor, which may be a violation of federal law.

“None of them have the money [for the tests], so it’s going to fall back on us to push back on that,” said Ruben Garcia, the director of Annunciation House, an immigrant shelter in El Paso where the women are staying.

Guardian -  The Department of Justice told a federal judge Tuesday that it may have mistakenly separated a father and toddler who could both be US citizens for as long as a year, in the process of enforcing the Trump administration zero-tolerance immigration policy. Trump forced to reinstate 'catch and release' after court defeats Read more

The American Civil Liberties Union called the revelation “horrific” and blamed the administration’s poor execution of the practice of family separations.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

In June 23andMe announced that they would DONATE the kits needed to insure kids got reunited w/their families, yet these families are being charged? More extortion?

Greg Gerritt said...

Presidnt Toxic Dump shows his true colors and his high regard for the constitution and anything decent on planet earth. Satan personified.