Posted on 07/11/2018 6:16:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Some migrant parents who have been reunited with their young children say the children no longer recognize them, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The parents told the newspaper that after waiting months to see their children again, the kids cried and didnt recognize them.
He didnt recognize me, one parent, Mirce Alba Lopez, told The Times of her 3-year-old son. My joy turned temporarily to sadness.
The parents also said the children believed that the other children they were detained with were their siblings.
The families who spoke with the Times were reunited Tuesday after a court ordered the Trump administration to reunify the families separated at the border under a since-ended administration policy.
Officials had until Tuesday to reunite immigrant children under the age of 5 with their families. The administration earlier this week said it would not meet this deadline, and in a court filing Tuesday revealed that 38 out of the 102 identified children would be reunited on time.
The administration on Tuesday essentially returned to its catch and release policy for immigrants, releasing migrant families wearing ankle monitors into the U.S. after courts prevented officials from holding the families detained at the border.
A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official also said Tuesday that the administration had paused referring immigrant adults with children for prosecution and had also equipped them with ankle bracelets before releasing them.
Trump has railed against the "catch and release" policy. His administration imposed a "zero tolerance" policy at the border earlier this year, mandating that all immigrants caught illegally crossing the border face prosecution.
That led to the separations of families and a political controversy that eventually forced Trump to issue an executive order ending the family separations.
except that they probably weren’t their kids.
He caves to judges on just about everything. It’s like somebody’s got something on him and he’s a private citizen, not the President.
Put some bars in front of them. Now do they look familiar?
They would have to have been very young when they were separated from their parents not to recognize them.
Anyone taking that as a sign they might just not be their parents?
No way a normal 3 yr old wouldn’t recognize a competent, loving parent.
news flash... if you bring your children with you to a bank robbery.... you will be separated from them when you are caught!
Sounds a bit like what occurs to some extent when our
military personnel are separated from their children.
Hence the need for DNA testing.
Some of the children were turned into magpies by the Trump Administration, the New York Times reported, while other children were secreted away to the mountain lair of a dragon or eaten by mice.
Ha, that’s what I was going to post.
This White House is congenitally incapable of defying a court order. This is terrible precedent, its net effect is to transfer executive branch authority over to an out of control judiciary. We are witnessing a very dangerous concentration of power in one branch, because congress has been doing the same thing for years. We are becoming a country ruled by black-robed despots and tyrants who will not have to answer to the people for any of their actions and decisions.
Sounds like these kids are not particularly intelligent. Not something you’d want in your country for life.
He cannot give the left a legitimate excuse to impeach him. After the election, he will have “more flexibility”. Sarcasm, but true.
“Because theyre not the kids parents. They are the human traffickers who brought them in posing as their parents. Probably only saw them a few hours before being separated.”
I was going to say the same thing.
Great point!!!!!
Its hard to tell exactly what the administration is doing now.
FNC, CNN and MSNBC all have their own agendas.
But its sounds like he caved.
How are judicial orders like these enforced?
Hmmm. My two and a half year old granddaughter recognized me after several months absence...
GMTA? :)
More propaganda designed to get US to give up our country without a fight.
Illegal aliens bring on whatever happens to them by breaking into our country.
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