Posted on 01/31/2022 11:35:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES, Jan 31 (Reuters) - On a Tuesday in January, four years after American authorities pried Maria Hernandez away from her daughters and deported her back to Honduras, she returned to the United States - this time with the blessing of the U.S. government.
Hernandez was deported, one of thousands of parents separated from their children under then-President Donald Trump's controversial "zero tolerance" policy to deter illegal immigration.
The Trump administration contended that allowing families to be released together in the United States while they applied for asylum only encouraged illegal immigration. In response, the administration sought to prosecute and deport parents like Hernandez and place their children in U.S. custody as "unaccompanied minors."
President Joe Biden, a Democrat who took office in January 2021, called family separations a "human tragedy" and quickly formed a task force to reunify families. Deported parents, once found, would be given the option to return to the United States to rejoin their children, who mostly had stayed with U.S. relatives or sponsors.
The task force identified more than 3,900 children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border after July 2017 under "zero tolerance" and related policies. More than half were reunified during the Trump administration as a result of litigation by migrant advocates. That left about 1,700 children still separated.
The administration is "dedicated to finding every family and ensuring families have long-term stability in the United States," said Michelle Brane, the head of the task force in a statement.
Still, some families have been left frustrated, even distraught, at the slow pace of reunifications, according to migrant advocates.
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I’m all broke up.
“Who built the cages, Joe?”
F**k you Reuters.
And just remember kiddies, they can only be “reunited” here in the US of A.
Accompanied by much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and demands for Mas Dinero to assuage their broken hearts..er, wallets...
I think there were about 100....when Biden took office.
Deport them all.
What is now forgotten is that a huge number of children were being used to get false parents in our country. The kids and so-called parents were separated because the parents nor the kids could confirm they were related.
Reuniting parasites in America. How nice.
...rushed into her embrace, sobbing...
...the mother had clung to her weeping girls...
...her voice shaky from crying...
...traumatic family separations...
...families have been left frustrated, even distraught...
Blah...blah...blah. Remember when journalism was reported by fact and not emotionalism. Note how everything is Trump's fault in this story? To those of us who think illegal immigration is still illegal, I'd say all of their problems are self-inflicted. Get in line if you want to come here, and do it right.
Classic Propaganda Hit Piece.
Reuters = Brandon Junta _ Deep State Marxist
Don’t come here illegally.
Pretty sure the family separations were happening before Trump. And they were there for good reason. Many of the children were being trafficked as pretend children to help the adults with their lies. Then the kid would be funneled back over the border and used again by the next couple.
The family separations actually started under President Clinton, unless I’m mistaken.
Exactly.
This is nothing but a not-so-subtle twist on Joe Stalin's Balkanization program as refined by Team Obama, and the Socialist-Dems are getting it done. The agenda here includes diluting and over-stressing traditional American institutions.
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