According to this article, children can be separated if there is no family relation to the adults, or of there is reason to believed the children are in danger such as child trafficking. Due to 1997 Flores consent decree, ICE can only hold minor for 20 days, period. Since children can not be legally held as long as adults, they are placed under HHS custody. Unless congress changes the law and there is a challenge that goes through he Federal courts, after 20 days children will have to be taken away form their families no matter what other policies are in place.
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Remember when obama started encouraging families to send unaccompanied children to the US? This became a deluge of parentless children/” minors’ ( some children some not) being smuggled into the US by coyotes hired by the parents- who assumed once their kids were in the US they could then follow.
It became chaos. Hundreds of thousands! No one tracked who was actually related to the kids. They were turned over to adults who claimed to be relatives. Apparently thousands simply disappeared.
A perfect front for trafficking. Orchestrated by the president who had special pizza and hot dogs flown into the WH from Chicago for his birthday.
Under this president things have changed.
If you are white: try bringing your own kids across an international border with no id and no proof they are your kids.