A report from the DHS Office of the Inspector General finds that an unknown number of children, possibly thousands, were separated from parents at the US-Mexico border before the May 2018 “Zero Tolerance” family separation policy was announced, but weren’t been included in official government tallies of separated families. The kids in the OIG report were placed in foster care but haven’t been reunited with their parents because the Trump Administration lost them. A court ordered migrant family reunification in June 2018.
NBC found a draft of a December 2017 memo indicating that DHS and DOJ were planning the family separations well before Sessions’ “Zero Tolerance” announcement. That’s troubling for DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen who told the House Judiciary Committee, in sworn testimony on December 2018, “We’ve never had a policy for family separation.” Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) has called on the FBI to open a perjury investigation of Secretary Neilsen.
More:
“Thousands more migrant children separated under Trump than previously known,” Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian
Related:
“Trump’s health secretary refuses Democrats’ request to testify on separated kids,” Dan Diamond, Politico
Updates:
“Mexico won’t accept minors awaiting US asylum claims,” Associated Press
“No one at this child separation hearing knows how many children are still separated,” Kathryn Krawczyk, The Week
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