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."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yeah, baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I realize I didn’t make myself clear...
I don’t mean the ones who do have Spanish ancestors...
I mean the ones who are obviously short dark skinned non-”Hispanic” looking...with Aztec/Mayan features and noses...there are a lot of very prominently Aztec looked people in the “immigrant” videos ...
If they did have any Spanish blood it was back during Cortez’s time...
not everyone born in Mexico or South America have Spanish ancestors...
and a lot of the “Hispanics” are not “Hispanic” at all...
I used to know an Indian guy, (Native, not from India) who claimed that his grandmother was a Canadian “princess”. LOL.
Nice!!!
Charity begins at home as the saying goes. So, to update that saying to “charity begins for Americans first!”
In some (many?) cases, the families sold the children to coyotes for cash to relieve their desperate poverty. They may not want the children back.
Very interesting.I have some black foot Indian heritage great great grand-mother. She was full blood Black Foot from the Dakota area’s.
I love history.
So if not Hispanic, what are they?
How much is the DNA testing cost the taxpayers now? I agree, good idea to test and keep records but man, if we do this from now on, going to bleed us financially.
This is a HUGE issue and should be part of the border wall discussion. And, BTW, the US taxpayers are “on the hook for” and paying for the medical care all these illegals are getting. How many American children have no medical coverage?? Perhaps the RATs and RINOs in Congress would like to explain and comment on the issue?
Right on target, ExTexasRedhead! Michael Savage has spoken and written about this for years, but I don't recall any of the Trump people doing likewise. Of course, that doesn't mean that some may have.
One of my cousins is married to an archaeologist who is a paleo-Indian expert in NM-so he’s pretty much into all that breeding and culture stuff-
The Spaniards never quit breeding with the Native Americans-unless they were Elite Spaniards in the last 150 years or so-like any people who are a mix of ethnicities looks are just a matter of what genes win the lottery-DNA says my family is 1/5th to 1/4 Native American-and some few of us look puro Indio-black hair, the sharper facial features and darker skin, etc-but since the Apaches and Aztecs were branches of the same original group/tribe, that interbreeding went on for years-and eventually, the Spanish Basque genes got the upper hand where looks were concerned. As I said, only the most isolated tribes in the jungles show no European/Spanish DNA-the rest have it to some degree-some upper class Hispanics just like to ignore both the scientific and historical evidence because they think being purely European makes them special-and there are a lot of people with German surnames in Mexico, Central America and S America-especially since the early/mid 1940’s-children/grandchildren of escaped Nazis...
DHS and DHH should charge people who are not the parents of the “children” but claim to be, or were facilitators to their coming into the U.S., with “child abuse”, “child neglect”, and “child fraud”, as well as those parents who sent them unaccompanied by a trusted adult on those deadly trips through Central America.
If American parents can be charged with child abuse and neglect or “human trafficking” (making them into sex slaves), why not foreigners? Foreigners have American courts making decisions that say they have the “same rights” as American citizens SO WHY SHOULDN’T THEY BE SUBJECT TO AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAWS NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE IF THEY VIOLATE AMERICAN CHILD ABUSE LAWS?
Time for the Trump Administration (DOJ, DHH and DHS) to get “creative” and turn the wacky court decisions around and use it on the aliens, traffickers, sex slavers, and “fake parents”.
JUST DO IT!
So do I-the history of early humans has fascinated me since childhood-if I remember what I’ve read/been told correctly the Blackfoot were from the far northern states and parts of Canada, etc-and have more Eurasian/Siberian ancestry than some other tribes further to the South and West-Cherokee, Apache, Comanche, etc...
Close the damn border. Since when did we become Motel 6?
Drug runners using children as a tool; much like the Dems. Neither actually give a rat's ass about the children.
Exactly
If some kid claimed Lieawatha was his mom, would they force a DNA test on her? Would he then be eligible for Trump’s $1M?
ROFL... and we need to turn off the light!
The DNA testing isn’t the big costs, it’s housing and feeding illegals.... The DNA test may separate the human traffickers from parents, except in cases where parent only though they were parent, etc.
How did Aztecs breed with Apaches since the Aztec Empire never went much further north than what is now present day Mexico City?
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