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| Family separation crisis: Trump attacks 'phony stories of sadness and grief' – live | |
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| In ending mass family separation, the Trump administration failed to put in place procedures that would reunite families who have been separated in recent months. | |
| The results of that chaos have been captured by reporters across the globe. | |
| Washington Post journalist Bob Moore spoke to a Mexican woman, Jocelyn, who had been separated from her child. Jocelyn said federal agents “told her they would put her son up for adoption if she didn’t behave.” | |
| I’ve heard Jocelyn tell the story before of her separation from her son James. Tonight she told me and @jribas that federal agents told her they would put her son up for adoption if she didn’t behave. pic.twitter.com/9UBlhTMURQ | |
| And the Post’s Latin America correspondent, Kevin Sieff, said attorneys told him border patrol agents hadn’t always noted that a child had initially crossed the border with their parent. This would put children on the track of being processed like children who cross on their own, instead of categorizing them with people who had been separated from their parents. | |
| Some of the bureaucratic failures are remarkable: Border Patrol agents who forgot to note that a child crossed the border with a parent. Mothers who were never given the toll-free phone number where they can ask about their kids. | |
| A report from Reuters: | |
| Before one deportation flight left for Honduras from Texas on Thursday, U.S. officials asked who had children in detention in the United States and the four who put up their hands were not put on the flight, deportees arriving in Honduras told Reuters. | |
| And in the New Yorker, a tale of a clinician saying a child wouldn’t be reunited with his parents “unless he behaves.” | |
| I hate these people.https://t.co/uKf3WEWtBD pic.twitter.com/bQFZmiCYb2 | |
| The president has returned to Twitter to discuss immigration, describing tales from the border as “phony stories of sadness and grief.” | |
| Below, some quick context on his claims: | |
| 80% of Mexico’s Exports come to the United States. They totally rely on us, which is fine with me. They do have, though, very strong Immigration Laws. The U.S. has pathetically weak and ineffective Immigration Laws that the Democrats refuse to help us fix. Will speak to Mexico! | |
| Mexico’s government, and the presidential candidates in its 1 July election, have strongly condemned the family separation policy. | |
| Luis Videgaray, Mexico’s foreign secretary, said this week family separation: “clearly represents a violation of human rights.” | |
| And in light of the family separation policy, members of Mexico’s Congress are calling for a review of the assistance and security coordination the country provides to the US. | |
| In Aug 2017, the public gained insight into Trump’s private brokering with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, when a transcript of their phone call was released. | |
| We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it! | |
| While the adminstration has referred to families approaching the border with children as entering “illegally,” there are also reports of asylum-seekers being separated from their children. It is legal to seek asylum in the US. | |
| The undocumented immigrant population has remained fairly steady in the US since it peaked at 12.2 million people in 2007. | |
| Barack Obama’s adminstration was sharply criticized for its family detention policies after an influx of Central American children arrived at the border in 2014. Federal courts eventually stepped in and prohibited the government from detaining children, and therefore families, for more than 20 days. The Trump adminstration plans to violate the 20 day rule. | |
| In the face of a perilous journey north and an unwelcoming government, it’s fair to wonder why people continue to flee Central America. | |
| The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips explains what is pushing people north: | |
| Eight years on, as Donald Trump wages a hardline immigration crackdown, experts and activists say the last part of that statement has never been truer. | |
| More than 130,000 Central Americans applied for asylum last year – the majority from a trio of countries known as the ‘northern triangle’, and most of them fleeing either grinding rural poverty or the rampant gang and drug-related violence that has transformed the region into the most murderous outside of an official war zone. | |
| “This is not people going to the US to pursue the American Dream ... These are not economic migrants. These are families that have to leave everything behind because of life or death situations,” said Sofía Martínez, a Guatemala-based Central America expert for the International Crisis Group. | |
| ABC News has shared an emotional video of a mother from Guatemala reuniting with her young son at an airport in Baltimore. | ABC News has shared an emotional video of a mother from Guatemala reuniting with her young son at an airport in Baltimore. |
| Emotional scenes as migrant mother and son from Guatemala, who were separated crossing the U.S. border, are finally reunited at BWI Airport in Maryland after a month apart. https://t.co/3lwrqXTByp pic.twitter.com/lEiJZB948X | Emotional scenes as migrant mother and son from Guatemala, who were separated crossing the U.S. border, are finally reunited at BWI Airport in Maryland after a month apart. https://t.co/3lwrqXTByp pic.twitter.com/lEiJZB948X |
| She cries “te amo, te amo, te amo” (I love you, I love you, I love you) as she holds him. | She cries “te amo, te amo, te amo” (I love you, I love you, I love you) as she holds him. |
| The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani writes from Tijuana, where five asylum-seekers are still hoping to enter the US legally. Two of those people, Maria López and Roberto Santos, explained why they felt the need to flee their home in the Mexican state of Guerrero where the current homicide rate of 77 per 100,000 people is one of the highest in the world: | The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani writes from Tijuana, where five asylum-seekers are still hoping to enter the US legally. Two of those people, Maria López and Roberto Santos, explained why they felt the need to flee their home in the Mexican state of Guerrero where the current homicide rate of 77 per 100,000 people is one of the highest in the world: |
| In recent years, the fertile community has been taken over by warring drug gangs who replaced maize and vegetable crops with poppies. The vast majority of 900 or so habitants have fled, forced to abandon homes, livestock and once productive land. “It’s a ghost town now, just poppies and gun battles,” said López in front of the Tijuana-San Diego border bridge, where they’ve come to see how far they’ve advanced on the asylum seeker’s waiting list. | In recent years, the fertile community has been taken over by warring drug gangs who replaced maize and vegetable crops with poppies. The vast majority of 900 or so habitants have fled, forced to abandon homes, livestock and once productive land. “It’s a ghost town now, just poppies and gun battles,” said López in front of the Tijuana-San Diego border bridge, where they’ve come to see how far they’ve advanced on the asylum seeker’s waiting list. |
| The young family moved to the state capital Chilpancingo and started to build a new life. Santos worked construction, López was a cook’s assistant, and their son, now almost four, attended kindergarten. | The young family moved to the state capital Chilpancingo and started to build a new life. Santos worked construction, López was a cook’s assistant, and their son, now almost four, attended kindergarten. |
| But earlier this month, they received message that the criminal group knew where they were living, and they felt they had to run. “We couldn’t stay and wait to find out, what if they kill my son,” López said. | But earlier this month, they received message that the criminal group knew where they were living, and they felt they had to run. “We couldn’t stay and wait to find out, what if they kill my son,” López said. |
| Donald Trump sent a series of tweets about immigration starting just before 7am this morning, including an order to Republicans to “stop wasting their time on immigration.” | Donald Trump sent a series of tweets about immigration starting just before 7am this morning, including an order to Republicans to “stop wasting their time on immigration.” |
| In the messages, Trump blamed Democrats for the Republicans failure to pass immigration reform bills this week and backed Republicans running for office in the upcoming midterm elections. | In the messages, Trump blamed Democrats for the Republicans failure to pass immigration reform bills this week and backed Republicans running for office in the upcoming midterm elections. |
| Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE! | Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE! |
| Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave! | Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave! |
| Facing condemnation from across the political spectrum, Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the end of his family separation policy that saw at least 2300 children separated from their parents. | Facing condemnation from across the political spectrum, Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the end of his family separation policy that saw at least 2300 children separated from their parents. |
| But there remains no system in place to reunite families, his administration plans to prolong family detention past the legal limit of 20 days and attorneys have identified loopholes that could allow family separations to continue at a smaller scale. | But there remains no system in place to reunite families, his administration plans to prolong family detention past the legal limit of 20 days and attorneys have identified loopholes that could allow family separations to continue at a smaller scale. |
| Today, Guardian correspondents on both sides of the border, in Guatemala and across the US will deliver special reports from the scene and provide updates and analysis on the lingering chaos. | Today, Guardian correspondents on both sides of the border, in Guatemala and across the US will deliver special reports from the scene and provide updates and analysis on the lingering chaos. |
| The latest news: | The latest news: |
| And a fresh dispatch from Brownsville, Texas: | And a fresh dispatch from Brownsville, Texas: |