So, Shooter predicted Dr. Biden would drop this project as soon as the photo op served its purpose.
She did.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/03/22/jill-biden-immigration-migrant-families-477559

Despite flurry of attention, Jill Biden is not leading family reunification effort

 

The height of hypocrisy is conservative/Republicans suddenly pretending they care about the children separated from their parents under Trump when they literally joked about it before.

Parents of 7 more separated migrant children have been found, lawyer says
It brings the number of parents left to be reached to 499. Families were separated under the Trump administration's policies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...rant-children-have-been-found-lawyer-n1259031

And there is no doubt the surge in migrant,s and especially unaccompanied minors, is a problem. But far from an actual crisis. COVID 19 is a crisis. Unemployment is a crisis. A surge in migrants is a problem that every president for at least the past 40 years have had to deal with. And the Biden Administration is doing the best they can with the gutted and corrupted system Trump left.

Biden administration releases video of migrant facilities to ABC News

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...eases-video-of-migrant-facilities-to-abc-news

 

hypocrisy indeed. And lies, eh Stumbler?

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...eases-video-of-migrant-facilities-to-abc-news
The number of parents who have been reached is not the same as those who have been reunited, Gelernt said.

Lawyers hope to soon provide the Biden task force with a number of how many have been reunited, he said. One major reason many parents remain separated is that they do not want to bring their children from the United States back to dangerous home countries, according to Gelernt.

 

US Starts Reuniting Separated Migrant Children with Parents
By Ken Bredemeier
May 03, 2021 02:43 PM

The United States said Monday it will reunite the first four migrant families who were separated at the U.S. border with Mexico during Donald Trump's presidency, with the administration of President Joe Biden promising it is "just the beginning" of more reunifications.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declined to identify the families involved in the first reunifications, set to take place this week, but said two of the four families included mothers separated from their children in late 2017, one Honduran and the other Mexican.



FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House, March 1, 2021.


The Biden Cabinet official described the children, all of whom have been living in the U.S., as being 3 years old at the time of their separations and "teenagers who have had to live without their parents during their most formative years."

Parents of the children are returning to the United States on what the government is calling humanitarian parole while officials consider other longer-term options to keep the families together, according to Michelle Brane, executive director of the Biden administration's Family Reunification Task Force.

Mayorkas told reporters the government would continue "to reunite many more children with their parents in the weeks and months ahead. We have a lot of work still to do, but I am proud of the progress we have made and the reunifications that we have helped to achieve this week."

Brane said the government believes that more than 1,000 families remain separated. Officials have said many parents separated from their children, mostly from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, have been difficult to find. The exact number to be reunited depends on the outcome of negotiations with the American Civil Liberties Union to settle a federal lawsuit in San Diego, California, near the border.

The Trump administration separated more than 5,000 children at the U.S.-Mexico border from their parents as part of a get-tough effort under which any adult who entered the country illegally was prosecuted. But he ended the child-separation practice amid sharp international criticism and a June 2018 court order.

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Biden assailed the family separations as a "human tragedy."

But the new U.S. leader, now in his fourth month in office, continues to block entire migrant families and single adults trying to cross the border from entering the U.S. while allowing unaccompanied children to stay, rather than expelling them as Trump did.

Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office pledging to reunite families that were still separated "to the greatest extent possible."

Biden has also ended construction of a border wall that Trump championed. While contending that the U.S. border is not open without restrictions, Biden's changed immigration policies have led to a surge of migrants that his administration has been hard-pressed to deal with, and children have been initially held in caged areas not unlike those seen during the Trump presidency.


But the crisis at the border — or "challenge" as Biden officials have often called it — has eased somewhat in recent weeks. U.S. officials have cut the average stay for unaccompanied children in Border Patrol custody to 20 hours before they are transferred to one of the 14 emergency intake centers being operated by the Department of Health and Human Services. The children then are placed in the homes of relatives already living in the U.S. or families vetted as responsible caregivers.

At the height of the migrant surge in late March, migrant children were typically being held at the border for 133 hours, far longer than the legal limit of 72 hours.

Officials say there now are 677 unaccompanied children in Border Patrol custody, down from more than 5,700 in late March. As of last week, Health and Human Services had 22,557 children in its care.


In announcing the first reunifications, Mayorkas said, "Today is just the beginning. We are reuniting the first group of families. Many more will follow. And we recognize the importance of providing these families with the stability and resources they need to heal."

The U.S. task force on the reunifications has been attempting to create a complete database of separated families, correcting inaccuracies in the files handed to them by the Trump administration and then finding the parents of the children living in the U.S.

It is also exploring the long-term legal options for the newly reunited families.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-starts-reuniting-separated-migrant-children-parents

 

Told ya so.

"....Parents of the children are returning to the United States on what the government is calling humanitarian parole"​

You think we had a "surge" at the border before?
So now the word will get out that all you have to do is show up at the border with your kids, have the kids stay in the US while you return home, and sooner or later the US will bring you back to the US to reunite you with your kids, and oh by the way, you move to the head of the line in terms of being allowed to stay. You know, legally and all.

These biden/harris people really are working towards open borders.

No matter. 2022 approaches and both the new "surge" and the elections should arrive together.

 

Exclusive: Pro-Biden group launches family reunification campaign

A political advocacy group created to support President Biden in March on Monday launched a new video, designed to tout the administration's policy of reuniting families separated by immigration enforcement.

The group, Building Back Together (BBT), whose mission is to trumpet Biden's successes, launched a campaign in April to attract Latino voters in key states — the new video is BBT's first rapid-reaction effort on a specific policy.

"After years of fear and terror, we finally have a president who recognizes the humanity of every family. There's more work to do, but the president is already keeping his promise to advance a fair, humane and compassionate immigration system," said BBT chief strategy officer Mayra Macías.

The video follows the high-profile rollout of an administration policy to reunite immigrant families separated under Trump, and a pledge by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to find a legal pathway to permanent status for members of those families.

"Think it's tough to trust our leaders nowadays?" asks a narrator to kick off the video. "Well, trust this. What candidate Joe Biden says, President Joe Biden does."

Mayorkas announced last Monday that the administration would begin allowing parents who were separated from their children to come to the United States to rejoin their families or choose to reunite in their home countries.

Some 2,800 families were separated forcibly by the Trump administration in 2018, in an attempt to deter family units from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The short-lived "zero tolerance" policy turned out to be a political weak spot for Trump, which Democrats — including Biden — consistently campaigned on, even long after Trump had been forced to reverse course.

When Biden took office, some 550 children had not been reconnected with their families, in part because records and contact information were not gathered on many during the implementation of the family separation policy.

Mayorkas said last week the Biden administration had thus far reunited 105 families and was seeking to act "as restoratively as possible" when it comes to reunification.

"This week, fathers will return home, children will have their mothers again and spaces left by those we love who were separated from us unjustly will slowly be made whole again," says the voiceover in the BBT video, over a montage of footage of families reuniting provided by advocacy organizations.

"We're telling the story of this policy through its impact on real families, uplifting the new Administration's commitment to reversing the immoral policies of the last Administration and prioritizing immigration reform early on — a critical part of building back better," said Macías.

https://thehill.com/latino/552581-e...-group-launches-family-reunification-campaign

 

Sure, reunited them in America

 

"When Biden took office, some 550 children had not been reconnected with their families, in part because records and contact information were not gathered on many during the implementation of the family separation policy."
​

This is a fucking lie. Stumbler knows this is a lie, we've discussed several times on this very thread how the process works when unaccompanied minors cross the border into government custody. Every person (well, until the biden/harris folks quit bothering with even identifying who came into the country) and every child is identified, fingerprinted and photographed. Children are to be transferred to HHS custody within 72 hours. HHS has the charge of a) keeping the child in a safe enviornment b) identifying family, kin like family, or suitable foster family arrangements c) beginning the process of adjudication, which includes LEGAL COUNSEL at very step.

In almost every case, the reason over 500 children were not reconnected with their families was that when the families were deported they had the option of taking their children with them, but they did not. The child, you see, has legal rights to have their asylum case heard in the US, and they were encouraged to do just that rather than be deported with their parents.

So, how has biden/harris handled the problem? By bringing deported parents back to the US to stay and have their cases reheard while their childs case is adjudicated.
Brilliant.
Think we had a crisis at the border before?
Just wait.

Tracking unaccompanied children in US custody | NewsNation Now

Unaccompanied Children Daily Report
The Biden administration started releasing reports of unaccompanied children in the custody of Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Health and Human Services. This chart will be updated as we receive data. The federal government isn't reporting numbers for Fridays and Saturdays.


How the system works

1. An unaccompanied child who is taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection is brought to a facility and processed for transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as required by law.
2. HHS holds the child for testing and quarantine, and shelters the child until the child is placed with a sponsor here in the United States.
3. According to the federal government, in more than 80% of cases, the child has a family member in the United States. In more than 40% of cases, that family member is a parent or legal guardian. These children are reunited with their families who will care for them.
4. The children then go through immigration proceedings where they are able to present an application for asylum or other protection under the law.

And the number of UAC in custody has doubled since biden/harris took office. Bet it doubles again before harris slides biden off to the side, and then it will stop being reported.


Open borders. Told you so.

Increasing Numbers of Unaccompanied Alien Children at the Southwest Border (congress.gov)

031921_Biden-Border-Crisis-Timeline.pdf (house.gov)

Media Silent as Biden Illegally Holds Unaccompanied Migrant Children | Education News (educationviews.org)

 

Whistleblower: Texas officials knew foster children housed in unsafe conditions for months

Texas officials failed to report foster children being kept illegally at an emergency shelter that received several citations, The Texas Tribune reports.

Despite being informed of the violations, officials, including some working under Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), did not report them to court-appointed watchdogs in charge of monitoring the system, according to the Tribune, which cited court records.

The Whataburger Center, located in San Antonio and named after a one-time donation from the chain restaurant, was cited 239 times for failing to meet state minimum standards over a four-year span. After multiple reports, some including claims of abuse or neglect, the center was put on probation, the terms of which banned any children from being housed there.

The center reportedly ignored the court-appointed probation, handed down by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). Despite saying they would relocate the children and surrender their license, Family Tapestry, which runs the center, reportedly continued to house children there and in a conjoined office.

The Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) and HHSC were notified of the violation, but did not act to remove the children, the Tribune reports.

In March, a whistleblower made court monitors aware of the situation, resulting in the relocation of the foster children there, the number of whom was not reported. Court records show this came five months after officials first became privy to the violations.

"We were shocked when we learned what the whistleblower revealed to the monitors. The state, including top officials at DFPS, HHSC and even the governor's office, was aware of children being placed in illegal operations for months," attorney Paul Yetter, who is fighting against the state in the case, told the Tribune.

He added, "Keeping secrets is not how this broken system is going to get fixed. It puts children at risk."

Abbott's office did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...ficials-knew-foster-children-housed-in-unsafe

 

PS

https://xxxbestrank.mobi/s__forum/threads/trum...om-their-parents.513361/page-25#post-10355056

 

A two year old report?
A report that, when one drills into it, reveals that officials weren't recording a tracking number in the system, but they in fact had the data needed, just not in a convenent layout?

Slow news day, stumbler?

 

A New Report on Family Separations Shows the Depths of Trump’s Negligence



The Trump Administration, it turned out, had never made arrangements to keep track of the families it was separating. By late June, when a federal judge ordered the Administration to reunite the families, it couldn’t figure out how. In the year since, the government has published multiple reports detailing the operational failures of the policy: D.H.S. was unprepared for the scope of what it had undertaken; it lacked the technology to track the families as they entered different branches of the federal bureaucracy; and the Administration even lost count of the families it had separated soon after the policy began.

Last week, on the afternoon before Thanksgiving, the D.H.S. Inspector General quietly issued another report with still more revelations. In early May, 2018, just as the zero-tolerance policy was taking effect, D.H.S. shared an estimate with the White House that more than twenty-six thousand migrant children would be separated from their families over the course of that summer. In other words, the Trump Administration had a clear sense of the magnitude of what it was undertaking, according to the report, but it simultaneously neglected to make even the most basic preparations to keep track of the separated families. By then, there had already been repeated warnings from inside the government that the policy would be disastrous, all of which the department’s leadership chose to ignore.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news...rations-shows-the-depths-of-trumps-negligence

 

Hey stumbler, did you ever find that unaccompanied minor who went to court unrepresented?
Did you ever figure out how many unaccompanied minors were left when Trump left office (hint, about 500)
Did you ever find out how many of them biden/harris have matched with parents? (hint; just the ones who the parents have been brought back to this country for another chance at immigration, you know, by jumping the line ahead of everyone else)

And how many unaccompanied minors have we had since biden/harris took over (hint 46,188 as of May 11)
And how many of them have been returned to their parents? (hint; not many cause, you know, its not us to turn away a minor at the border or send them back where they came from).

You are so dishonest when you post your crap.

 

Parents of another 54 separated kids have been located, advocates say in new court filing

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ed-as-search-for-hundreds-of-others-continues

 

Excellent news!
The open borders goal advances a bit further!

"Democratic legislators have recently introduced legislation that would reunify separated families in the U.S. and put them on a path to citizenship, which has been supported by organizations like Kids in Need of Defense."​

 

Migrant children in US: The ‘cards are stacked against’ them
Children travelling alone in search of protection

By Jihan Abdalla
22 May 2021
Fleeing poverty and gang violence, thousands of Central American children continue to trek alone towards the US-Mexico border hoping for a chance at a new life in the United States.

Since coming into office in January, President Joe Biden has expelled the vast majority of migrant adults and families under a public health order that his predecessor Donald Trump put in place.

Keep reading
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But the Biden administration allows children travelling without a parent or guardian to enter the country to unite with relatives while they pursue their asylum claims, acknowledging that turning them away would endanger their lives.

“All of them are vulnerable,” said Eskinder Negash, president of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a non-profit organisation based in Virginia.

“They travel hundreds of miles; they are not coming here because they want to go to Disneyland,” Negash told Al Jazeera. “They come here because they have a well-founded fear of violence in their country, their governments or gangs. If that’s not vulnerable then I don’t know what is.”

But as thousands of children continue to arrive at the border in hopes of getting asylum in the US, experts say once in the country, they face numerous hurdles and a great deal of uncertainty.


Shelter stays
According to CBP data, 13,962 children crossed into the US in April, down slightly from the 15,918 who arrived in March. Amid the surge, the conditions in which these children were held – and the length of time they spent in custody – spurred a national debate.

Republicans accused Biden of encouraging parents to send their children and creating a “crisis” at the border. And pictures showing children in crowded makeshift facilities, sleeping on thin mattresses and wrapped in foil blankets, added more pressure on the president, who promised to put in place more humane immigration policies.

But Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has blamed the Trump administration for dismantling facilities and systems that he said would have facilitated the processing of migrants. He also said the rise in arrivals began in April 2020, months before Biden took office.

After a period in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), migrant children are transferred to shelters funded by Health and Human Services (HHS), a federal department, where officials begin the process of locating their relatives.

Negash’s organisation runs one of those shelters. Rinconcito del Sol (“Small corner of sunshine”, in Spanish), houses girls aged 14 to 18 in the US state of Florida. It has a maximum capacity of about 140 children but is currently housing 100 due to COVID-19 restrictions.


Negash said many of the girls reported being sexually abused during their journeys to the US, and some have been trafficked. Most are fleeing poverty and gang violence, and have a lack of education.

After they arrive at the Florida facility or any of the about 200 other shelters around the country, children are tested for COVID-19 and given physical and mental health exams. Within an average of 30 days, most children are released to a “sponsor” – a parent, relative or family friend in the US – while they pursue their asylum claims.

In an email, the HHS said a child is united with a family member in the country in more than 80 percent of cases. In more than 40 percent of total cases, that family member is a parent or legal guardian. There were 22,264 unaccompanied children in the HHS care on May 2, according to a department factsheet (PDF).

During Senate testimony on May 13, Mayorkas said the length of time children spend in CBP custody had been slashed to an average of 22 hours, significantly lower than the average in March of 133 hours – well beyond the legal limit of 72 hours. “The challenge is not behind us, but the results are dramatic,” he said.

Vetting process
Kathleen Goss is a children’s services specialist at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which runs three shelters for unaccompanied minors up to age 13 in northern California, Dallas, Texas, and Virginia. Each facility holds between 10 and 24 beds.

She said sponsors are interviewed and assessed, and background checks are conducted, as part of a vetting process before a child will be placed in their custody. In some cases, home visits are made to determine if the living arrangements are suitable.

“We want to make sure we know what is the relationship of this adult to the child, and make sure that we have documentation for that,” Goss told Al Jazeera. Another goal is assessing whether sponsors are equipped to ensure the children’s needs are met, and are connected to community resources, such as schools.

“We want to make sure that it will be a safe place for the child that they will not be at risk of abuse, neglect or trafficking, and that they have everything in place and available to accept this child into their home and into their lives to help that child thrive.”


If the prospective sponsor is a child’s parent, the child is generally reunited with them within a week or two of arriving at the shelter, Goss said. If the sponsor is a more distant relative or a family friend, it may take longer for the sponsor to be approved. Children are then flown or driven to their sponsors, or picked up at the shelter.

The final step in their process, Goss said, is a “follow up” phone call 30 days after a child is placed with his or her sponsor to ensure that things are going well. In the event that a child has no relatives in the US and the sponsor is not located or deemed suitable, the child is placed in foster care.

So far this year, the USCCB has processed 300 children through its facilities, Goss added.

‘Cards stacked against’ them
But once they are out of the US government custody and either placed in foster care or with their sponsors, children must still navigate the US immigration system while also getting used to their new lives in the country.

Once they enter the US, migrant children can apply for asylum or other types of immigration protection, such as Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, often through the help of a lawyer that families must secure themselves or through pro-bono organisations.

Unlike asylum-seeking adults who generally undergo adversarial court proceedings, the cases of unaccompanied minors are heard in family court, and the children are questioned by asylum officers trained to interview minors.

Amid stalled legal proceedings due to COVID-19 restrictions, the process to secure permanent status can take up to four years, lawyers say. If their applications are unsuccessful, the children are deported. According to data compiled by Trac Immigration, a research group affiliated with Syracuse University, more than 35,000 migrant children were deported so far this year.


The children’s new home environments – with relatives who often struggle with housing and food insecurity, or are undocumented – can also pose a challenge, said Elise de Castillo, executive director of the Central American Refugee Center, a refugee support group in New York state.

“Immigrant children become part of families that they were never a part of before, or are placed with parents who have been up until that point parents in name only,” de Castillo told Al Jazeera. “When you are doing that at the age of 14 or 15, when parenting is a challenge universally, and then adding this specific dynamic twist, it becomes even harder.”

Many children – especially teenagers – also face significant difficulties in adjusting to their new schools. “Unaccompanied minors are often children whose education has been interrupted and they are placed in academic environments where they are being educated in a second language or a language that they don’t speak,” de Castillo said.

“When a child arrives here, the cards are often stacked against their success.”

Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/22/migrant-children-in-us-the-cards-are-stacked-against-them

 

Heres a thought.
Instead of politicizing the issue, how about true immigration reform and quit encouraging ILLEGAL MIGRATION?

Oh, thats right. Open borders.

Hey stumbler, you find that unrepresented minor yet?

 

All anyone has to do to see the proof migrant children including toddlers faced court hearings without lawyers is just check a few pages back on this thread. Or just simply google "migrant children face court hearings without lawyers" and you will see dozens of stories from multiple sources documenting it.

Watchdog: Trump admin didn't give parents option to be deported with children

A new report from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog found the Trump administration failed to give some parents the option of reuniting with their children before deporting them under its family separation policy.

A report from DHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the Trump administration separated families even in instances when parents facing deportation wished to return to their home country with their children.

“ICE removed at least 348 parents separated from their children without documenting that those parents wanted to leave their children in the United States,” OIG wrote in its report, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“In fact, ICE removed some parents without their children despite having evidence the parents wanted to bring their children back to their home country."

The Trump administration officially kicked off its "zero tolerance" policy in 2018, but the the OIG report found the more than 300 separations predated the family separation policy and were a result of “increasing criminal prosecutions in July 2017” where individual ICE officers carried significant discretion over separations.

“Even when ICE documented a parent’s choice to leave the child behind, some of the available records are significantly flawed, suggesting that not all parents who purportedly waived reunification did so knowingly and voluntarily,” the OIG concluded.

The Trump administration separated roughly 2,800 children from their parents under the 2018 policy, with October court documents showing more than 500 were never reunited with their parents.

The Biden administration's family reunification task force, however, is currently reviewing some 5,600 recently discovered files to determine if there were other affected families.

The administration also recently announced that families separated under Trump would have the option of reuniting and remaining in the U.S.

“We are hoping to reunite the families, either here or in their country of origin. We hope to be in a position to give them the election. And if in fact they seek to reunite here in the United States, we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the United States, and to address the family needs,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in March.

The Biden administration has thus far reunited four families separated under the Trump administration.

https://thehill.com/policy/national...ump-admin-deported-348-parents-without-option

 

Well this is interesting.
Stumbler and Shooter have discussed the issue of minors in court without legal representation.

Stumbler insisted that it happens.
Shooter showed how that is impossible.
Shooter challenged stumbler to present a single case where a child has appeared in court without representation.

Shooter is still waiting.

Lets be crystal clear; no ILLEGAL MIGRANT MINOR has ever, or will ever, appear in court without legal representation.

For starters, no judge would permit it.

So, when stumbler posts his propaganda alleging that Trump (or anyone) had ILLEGAL MIGRANT CHILDREN appear in court unrepresented, it is incorrect and stumbler is lying.
Again.

 

Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/27/immigrant-toddlers-ordered-appear-court-alone/

The Thousands of Children Who Go to Immigration Court Alone
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/children-immigration-court/567490/

US: Children Face Deportation Without Lawyers
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/03/14/us-children-face-deportation-without-lawyers#