Another 29 families are set to be reunited in the coming weeks, the report said.
Maybe its just ramping up.
I just get the impression it’s too politically expensive so they fall off the queue. Like the homeless or prisoner’s rights it’s very expensive politically for people that “don’t matter” and have no power.
Yeah I’m hoping that since it’s very investigatory in nature that the successes are coming.
Edit: Scale of the issue (Trump legacy):
That’s the hope. These are probably the toughest of cases.
Of the 3,900 separated children identified, nearly 1,800 have been reunited with a parent. Nearly all of those happened before the creation of the task force, the report said.
If I was being charitable (and I probably am) I feel like the easy to find ones are done, and we are working on some challenging cases.
But I have nothing to base that on except relentless optimism, and that I want Biden to be a good president that does the best that the situation allows.
Scuzz
3817
So do you think parents have made the tough choice to “abandon” their kids here in hopes that the kids get to stay in America?
Fact Sheet: Unaccompanied Migrant Children (UACs) - National Immigration Forum.
There is little evidence to suggest that child-focused U.S. immigration policies play a significant role in incentivizing UACs to leave their home countries and make the dangerous journey to the U.S.
Most UACs do not arrive at the border because they are runaways or because their parents have abandoned them. Instead, most often, parents have made the desperate determination that it is safer for their children to attempt to flee alone to the border than to remain at risk of persecution or violence. In some cases, these children have been entrusted to smugglers to take them to the U.S.; in others, parents may be waiting in Mexico and have sent their children across the border alone.
I am not an expert on this subject matter, but this website seems to shine some light on it.
Scuzz
3819
I assumed most of these kids were separated from their parents and placed in different internment facilities. My question was more that maybe parents would assume it was better to let America have their kids than for them to now to claim the kids. I didn’t mean to imply that that was their plan from the start but merely something they cam to believe later.
Anecdotally, the narrative down here is very much that, at least in some cases, parents entrust their children to coyotes who are supposed to take them to the US, on the theory that their children will be better off there.
On the other hand, my understanding of the separation problem created by Trump is that, for the most part, the Trump admin decided to detain refugee families in circumstances where they would not in the past have been detained — they would have been entered into the system and then released to appear at a future hearing — and that this decision to detain families created the requirement to separate children from parents, since children cannot be housed in the same detention facilities as are parents. And, further, that the Trump admin made this procedural change knowing the consequences; indeed, with the intent of using those consequences as a deterrent.
Teiman
3821
my spies have told me that immigration is not enough for a country grown. the future of USA don’t look good,… like most of the western countries, its facing a aging population and few kids to move society forward
This seems like, on balance, a good thing in that it will make it easier/less impossible to deal with climate change and sustainability problems? E.g. better to have a gradual and voluntary retraction to fit our carrying capacity than to have a sudden and total collapse. I realize these demographic shifts causes all sorts of issues with our current economic models, but it seems less disastrous than if the biosphere just gives out.
Won’t someone think of the shareholders?
I only think of the share holders Employee Owned Companies. I wish there were more of them in the world.
Wait. Why was he in prison? The link isn’t working for me.
ShivaX
3827
Violent felony of some sort. I assume the reason they deported him, despite him being a rare success story for the system.
Pretty much every country requires a clean criminal record for immigration.
ShivaX
3831
He’s been here since he was 4 months old.
Also:
A repatriation agreement signed with Vietnam in 2008 during the Bush administration prohibited the deportation of those who arrived in the U.S. before 1995. Pham’s family came to the U.S. in 1991.
Yet the Trump administration began including pre-’95 arrivals for deportation as early as 2017 and continued doing so through 2020, according to the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center.
You still have to go through immigration processing if you’ve lived in a country without legal status (if you are seeking legal status).
Maybe he’s turned over a new leaf and is a great person, but it isn’t surprising immigration is restricted for those with violent felonies. Consequences…
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