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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:47 PM Jun 2018

Former head of ICE: Hundreds of these children will become orphans due to government negligence.












NEW: I just spoke with the former head of US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) – He tells me that he expects hundreds of separated children will never be reunited with their parents. They will be lost in the system. Orphaned by the US Govt'.

He says that during his time at ICE there were rare cases where children could not be reunited with their parents. Separation becomes permanent. This was *before* Trump’s policy that has so far separated 2300+ children from their parents.

“there’s so little that we can do that’s worse than what they are facing” Sandweg says, based on his experience at ICE.

"the federal government is not very good at keeping track of kids and parents.” he says.

"if the administration doesn’t reunify these children very quickly, which is logistically very hard to do, you’re going to have a lot of permanent separations."

"I think we’re going to see hundreds of cases where children are permanently separated from their parents, becoming wards of the United States"







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And those orphans, they will be Trump's heritage. These orphans are what history-books will tell about this era.

The lost children of the Trump-administration.
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pangaia

(24,324 posts)
12. We need to do whatever we can to be sure it is THEY who pay the dearest...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:00 PM
Jun 2018

Eh, ain;t going to be easy..

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
8. Question: if the parents are deported, then murdered
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 03:57 PM
Jun 2018

when the parents are returned to their home country without their children, if they are killed by those who they were seeking asylum fromin the first place...

then who becomes responsible for the orphaned children?

Do they just get shipped home as well with no regard for whether they have family to support them? Or does trump just get to "keep" them?

mgardener

(1,817 posts)
9. Do the people who support this horrific policy
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 04:32 PM
Jun 2018

Not understand that we are creating future terrorists?
That these children or their parents may in the future turn on the US?
What is wrong with people?

moondust

(19,993 posts)
16. Current acting head of ICE:
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:47 PM
Jun 2018

Blame the parents.

Wolf Blitzer just questioned him pretty aggressively about the whole mess. The ICE man is clearly a Trumpanzee who believes they are just doing their job. He impressed me as someone who would be a good fit for the Gestapo.

hunter

(38,317 posts)
17. Fuck ICE. Creepy Mall Cops of the U.S.A..
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:57 PM
Jun 2018

If you're too damned dead eyes ...something... to get an ordinary law enforcement job, ICE wants you.

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)
18. How long before they start tattooing the ID number on the kids arms ? That's the logical
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:06 PM
Jun 2018

extension of the current flawed system giving the kids pieces of paper.

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