Impassioned Democrats zero in on Trump's practice of separating families at border
Illinois Rep. Chuy Garcia, an Illinois Democrat, directly addressed Thomas Homan, who served as the acting ICE director last year, asking how he could have allowed family separations to take place under his watch.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official who spoke under the condition of anonymity previously confirmed that the sink attached to the top of the toilet at the Homestead, Florida, facility had been broken, but that large jugs of water were nearby. "We have a crisis at our border," Rep. Rashida Tlaib says in emotional testimony, saying the Trump administration is"dead set on sending a hate-filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in America, in our America." https://t.co/J1A2XVJJDd pic.twitter.com/qfE9h245vr
The impassioned testimony comes as Democrats are sounding the alarm on the Trump administration’s former policy of separating families at the border, citing new documents that show last year, hundreds of children, including toddlers and infants, were kept from their parents for months at a time. In a new report released on Friday by the House Oversight Committee, House Democrats revisit the impact of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy last year, which resulted in at least 18 infants and toddlers under two years old being separated from their parents and kept apart from 20 days to half of a year.
The Trump administration does not classify the practice of separating children from relatives who are not their parents, like an aunt or uncle or grandparent, as a family separation – citing legal requirements put in place to ensure the child’s security. “This is the cultural context with which children are coming to the border with their loved ones,” she said. “They are being taken, they arrive and then they are being called unaccompanied children, when in fact, they are accompanied.”
Podkul said that often times the adult traveling with a child is more aware of the reasons why the family might have left their home country in the first place. She also said that adults generally are the ones in possession of the necessary documents for the child's asylum case.
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