This Trump Donor Is Profiting Off The President's Child Separation Policies
Source: Hill Reporter
Published on June 19, 2018
At the southern border of the United States, families enter an Immigration Processing Center in McAllen Texas. However, they may not leave together. Instead, with the current zero-tolerance policies under the Trump Administration, children may be taken from parents and left to wait alone while their parents are taken to detention centers, where they face prosecution.
Children and parents alike are suffering. But, who is benefitting? For one, the GEO Group, which operates numerous private prisons, and has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house immigrants.
When adults are arrested for entering the country illegally, a misdemeanor, they may face fines or jail time but are more typically simply sent back home. Harsher penalties may be imposed if an immigrant already removed from the U.S. is caught entering improperly again.
Trump has referred to this standard as ‘catch-and-release,’ and while he has repeatedly denied it, his administration has implemented a policy of zero tolerance, by which every individual caught crossing the border without documentation faces prosecution. This means that many families who would, instead, have been sent back across the border, or permitted to apply for asylum (which can legally be done anytime within a year of arrival in the country), are being split up.
Policies forbid holding children at the processing center for more than 72 hours, but according to The Cut, DHHS backlogs are causing the children to be left in limbo for times exceeding that allowable limit, and without a parent. Here, the children, some infants, are housed in cages — or, as some Trump surrogates have insisted, temporary rooms made of chain-link fence — and sleep on mattresses on a concrete floor with foil blankets.
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