Posted on 07/05/2018 10:56:48 AM PDT by xzins
Contrary to reports of mass confusion at the Southwest Border, where the Department of Health and Human Services is under a court order to reunite children with the parents who brought them here illegally, "there is no confusion whatsoever," HHS Secretary Alex Azar told Fox News Thursday morning.
Azar said his department is working against a court-imposed deadline to reunite the 11,800 children with the people who are claiming to be their parents. The process includes DNA testing.
"Every child is accounted for," Azar said. "We know every child, where they are. We know the record -- the last time any kids had their fingernails clipped. We have comprehensive records on 11,800 kids in our care and custody."
The court has imposed what Azar called an "artificial deadline."
"We'll comply with the court's order. Our instructions are clear, our path is clear, we're executing against it. There's no confusion whatsoever."
Azar said child welfare comes first, and he said HHS has dealt with "hundreds of thousands" of separated children in recent years. Some of those children came here illegally with their parents; others were sent here without their parents.
Azar said HHS normally does not send children into the custody of the Department of Homeland Security, because a court order says family units in DHS custody can be detained for no longer than 20 days. Normally, he said, children who cross illegally are separated from their parents and put in HHS custody, but a recent court order ordered HHS to send the children back to their parents being held by DHS.
"Now, we will work with the court -- we are doing so today to get clarification and hopefully support from the court to allow us to do our job -- to ensure that in fact these are parents of the children. And ensure that they are suitable individuals to go back to," Azar said.
"We're doing DNA testing on everybody who claims to be the parent of one of our children to confirm that. We check birth certificates. We have surged 230 HHS people and contractors out to ICE facilities to sit with the parents to get information to prove suitability and parentage of them to work through this process. Because what we care about is the kids' welfare."
Azar said he learned just this morning about two children, both under four years old, whose "purported parents" have been charged with, or convicted of, rape, kidnapping, child abuse and narcotics violations:
"We are supporting child welfare and working to protect these kids. So it may seem easy -- 'Oh, why don't you just send these kids back over to ICE and reunify these families.'
"We have a vital and historic mission here to protect these children, to make sure that these are in fact their parents, and make sure that it is a safe environment that we're placing them back into, and we use every minute of time the court gives us against its deadline to ensure that that mission of child welfare and support for these kids is fulfilled."
good, DNA tests make perfect sense to protect these kids
They need a list of the diseases discovered and treated AND unable to be treated.
They just started the program, although you’d think it would have been common sense even under Obama.
I’ll bet a minimum of 20% are not with relatives of any sort.
I bet it’s higher than that
I bet it is even hire then 20 percent. when they examin those that have made false claims of being a child’s parent I bet you will find both cartel connections and MS-13 connections.
I also bet on further investigation of these illegals will find they that in the past they were caught with children and claimed the kids were there’s under Obama.
And my bet is that these “kids” are 15-17 years old and predominantly male.
UNIFICATION IN MEXICO is our strength...
;)
not all of these children have Spanish ancestors ...
The Aztec and the Mayan descendants all try to call themselves so called “Hispanic” and thus claim Spanish blood...
Yeah and I’m Chinese...
sure you weren’t stolen away from the gypsies ???
Maybe one of those DNA tests ???
WAY TO GO, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION!
This will stop lots of child trafficking. I’d say all, but the parents could be involved.
I heard INS lets the kids make 1 phone call per week.
Who cares. Send them all back. Build the WALL. This is getting old as the left thinks it has traction on this pathetic “crisis”.
Putting your own child in harms way should be a negative factor when considering admission to the US.
Putting a child that Is not your own in harms way should get you tossed in Federal prison for a good long stretch. Kidnapping is illegal, after all.
If we followed these policies, the flow of children across the border would dry up overnight.
What “birth certificates” ???
From the printing offices of Barack Obama???
Since the Spaniards that came over to the New World in the 16th-17th century were soldiers and sailors-young, single men-they started interbreeding with the Native American women right away-horndog Hernan Cortez himself led the charge by taking the daughter of a chief who opposed the Aztecs as his mistress to cement that alliance-(she was called La Malinche and later founded/became abbess of a convent)their son is regarded as one of the 1st kids of that mixed ethnicity of Spanish/Native American, born in the New World.
My own ancestors came to Mexico from Spain over 400 years ago, and about 100 years later a bunch of them saddled/packed up for Texas and New Mexico. Since they were just farm/ranch class/peasants and not nobility, they intermarried with peasant class Native Americans and Mestizos from the gitgo-so all of our tribe are Mestizos, even those of us with the Basque look-light skin, light eyes, blonde or red hair and all.
After 500 years, you’d have to look really hard to find either a pure Native American/Indian or a pure Spaniard who was born on the American continent-even though some want to claim to be pure Native or Pure Spanish, the genetic testing says it isn’t so-except for a few tribes in the Amazon Jungle-but they-wisely-don’t seem very interested in paying coyotes to bring their kids to the US illegally...
That was my 1st thought when I started reading the article, too-in some states CPS will grab your kids from you if they are playing in a park without a parent or sitter-and child rape and kidnapping can get you a life sentence in prison-or in the worst cases, the death penalty...
So apply the same standards of child endangerment, kidnapping, rape and trafficking minors for sex that we live by here-if these parents truly love their kids, they will stop doing s*** that endangers them just to avoid applying for legal citizenship like everyone else does...
Wanna bet they brought a lot of those diseases into our schools and everywhere else? The answer is yes, yes, and yes.
Of course not, that would signal that we are a "heartless" nation. According to them we should take care of EVERYBODY.
It is said that about 30% of “fathers” won’t actually pass a DNA test based on interactions that the mother never told them about...
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