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Feds want psychological tests for parents of separated kids
The Associated Press ^ | September 28, 2022 | By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and COLLEEN LONG

Posted on 09/28/2022 8:09:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking that parents of children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border undergo another round of psychological evaluations to measure how traumatized they were by the Trump-era policy, court documents show.

The request comes in a lawsuit filed by migrants seeking compensation from the government after thousands of children were taken from parents in a policy maligned as inhumane by political and religious leaders around the world. Settlement talks with attorneys and the government broke down late last year.

The requests came in two cases filed by 11 families. There are nearly two dozen similar cases pending in other courts, and some have already submitted to government-requested psychiatric evaluations.

But the parents have already sat for hourslong depositions in which they recounted what happened in detail. Government investigators have said children separated from their parents showed more fear, feelings of abandonment and post-traumatic stress symptoms than children who were not separated.

Some children believed their parents had abandoned them or had been killed. For some, the mental trauma caused physical symptoms, like chest or heart pain, according to a 2019 report from the inspector general’s office in the Department of Health and Human Services.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; bs; illegalaliens; invasion
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1 posted on 09/28/2022 8:09:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the American citizen parents in the military who are separated from their children by the US government ???


2 posted on 09/28/2022 8:13:16 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And what about those kids separated from their U.S. citizen parents who broke the law? The ones who were sent to prison.

Looks like the Biden Administration is prepping to give massive amounts of taxpayer money to these “victims.”


3 posted on 09/28/2022 8:15:37 AM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gonna be kind of hard
when the gov can’t even determine
“ what a woman is” ,
much less the

actual genetic biological “ parent”.

.


4 posted on 09/28/2022 8:23:29 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: girlangler

Yep, follow the money on this one.


5 posted on 09/28/2022 8:23:46 AM PDT by es345st
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To: cuz1961

I should say
Won’t
Not can’t.


6 posted on 09/28/2022 8:24:47 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why did the parents leave their country and insist upon it even after learning it would be bad for their children ?


7 posted on 09/28/2022 8:25:21 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"how traumatized they were by the Trump Obama-era policy,"

Fixed it.

8 posted on 09/28/2022 8:25:41 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t border jump with your kids in tow... problem solved.

Parents made choices, now they can live with the consequences.


9 posted on 09/28/2022 8:29:18 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden/Obama started that practice Trump stopped it!

I hate these monsters.


10 posted on 09/28/2022 8:30:48 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: girlangler

Yep, if a couple with kids are arrested, they don’t get to take the kids to jail with them. Any lawsuit or complaint about this would be laughed out of court. But when it comes to people who break the law entering the country, why that’s different. They get to sue and hope to get paid.


11 posted on 09/28/2022 8:35:52 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s have tests for all those children the cartels placed in kiddie whore houses under Biden’s open borders crap.


12 posted on 09/28/2022 8:39:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (STOP "PROCESSING" ILLEGALS. Democrats will use processing as 'documentation' proof.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More ‘State’ control and subservience.

The movie “1984” was actually a documentary.


13 posted on 09/28/2022 8:42:58 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Modern shrinks are more crazy than anyone.


14 posted on 09/28/2022 8:44:30 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Tennessee Nana
And the American citizen parents in the military who are separated from their children by the US government ???

I spent a lot of my childhood with my father overseas.

15 posted on 09/28/2022 8:46:02 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why is the federal government involved in this?


16 posted on 09/28/2022 8:57:45 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Boogieman

No psychological tests for the victims of illegal aliens or the families of victims of illegal aliens.


17 posted on 09/28/2022 9:00:16 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The government gets away with these outrageous intrusions into our lives precisely because as a population we tolerate it.


18 posted on 09/28/2022 9:08:01 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Given that most mass shooting young men are from absent father divorced homes might be good to test ALL adolescent males in separation situations regardless of citizenship status.


19 posted on 09/28/2022 9:15:21 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A neurotic left-wing female psychologist will find all kinds of emotional issues in her immigrant subjects, especially when assigned to.

These reports will be bizarre.


20 posted on 09/28/2022 9:17:25 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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