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There are essentially three policy issues that have become conflated: unaccompanied minors at the border, separating children from their parents at the border and families seeking asylum. We break down what those issues are and what it all means.
In an Oval Office meeting last year, President Trump recited made-up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, such as rape or murder- something that his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner found quite funny, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The scene reportedly took place the night before Trump's first speech to Congress in February 2017.
"The Border Patrol's May arrest numbers are due to be released early next month, and immigration hawks, including the president, now treat them as a kind of barometer for [Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen's performance."
It's the scandal that lit up the internet: 1,475 undocumented immigrant children who arrived at the southwest border were placed into temporary homes by the U.S. government. Then, when the feds checked, the children couldn't be accounted for.
Over 1,500 immigrant children who have entered the United States unaccompanied are not "lost," as Senate testimony by an administration official in April suggested, a U.S. Health and Human Services official said on Monday, as outrage over their treatment triggered a social media storm. Deputy HHS Secretary Eric Hargan issued a statement and fact sheet on Monday night saying the department's Office of Refugee Resettlement attempted to follow up on the 2016 release of unaccompanied children by contacting their families, a step he said was not required of the department.
As controversy grows over his administration's treatment of children separated from undocumented immigrant parents Trump is seeking a political opening to damage his opponents and solidify his own support. It's a classic strategy that he has deployed in toxic immigration wars before: Tout his toughness and dedication to law and order while blaming Democrats for not fixing the system's problems.
A top official at the US Department of Health and Human Services on Monday called reports that the agency has lost nearly 1,500 immigrant children false and misleading. The children are not lost, HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan said in a statement.
The 1,500 immigrant children whom critics claim were lost while in U.S. custody were instead turned over caretakers who didn't respond to the government's follow-up contacts, the Department of Health and Human Services said Monday. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the department, began voluntarily making 30-day follow-up calls in late 2016 to sponsors who had taken the unaccompanied minors, and figures on those who couldn't be reached were disclosed during a Congressional hearing in April.
President Trump's latest attempts to blame Democrats for separating migrant families at the Mexican border is renewing a political uproar over immigration. The issue has challenged Trump throughout his presidency and threatens to grow more heated as he imposes more restrictions to stem the flow of illegal immigration.
The Trump Administration regularly asserts illegal immigrants are a major cause of public safety in correlation to crimes, drugs and violence. Trump's initial intent since being elected was to remove any and all undocumented immigrants, including DACA recipients who were brought to the U.S as children by their parents.
Mali immigrant rescues dangling child from balcony in Paris, France, in this May 26, 2018 still image obtained May 28, 2018 from social media video. Photo - Tarek Dandach/via Reuters Mali immigrant rescues dangling child from balcony in Paris, France, in this May 26, 2018 still image obtained May 28, 2018 from social media video.
This is the fifth and final question, prior to the June 5 primary, the Daily Republic asked the candidates for the District 4 supervisor's office. Do you support the so-called "sanctuary law" ? Why or why not.
I wrote about this story two days ago when CNN first reported that the government had "lost" 1500 illegal alien children. Wagner is the acting assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dominga Vicente and her husband Mario, relatives of Claudia Gomez, a Guatemalan immigrant killed by a US Border Patrol officer on May 23 while entering illegally to Texas, hold a news conference in Guatemala May 25. SAN JUAN OSTUNCALCO, Guatemala: For Claudia Gomez, the 19-year old indigenous Guatemalan who was shot last week by a border patrol officer, the chance for a better life in the United States outweighed worries about a crackdown at the border, her family said on Sunday . Gomez grew up in the village of San Juan Ostuncalco, surrounded by cinder block homes built with dollars sent home by relatives in the United States and a road the community had paved with a collection of remittances.
As the media reverberated with stories about the 1,500 missing immigrant children rounded up by the federal government, Ivanka Trump decided to tweet a photo of herself Sunday cuddling her young son. Twitter users slammed Ivanka over her father's policy enacted this month that separates undocumented immigrant children from their parents.
A veteran Border Patrol Agent in Texas shot and killed an undocumented immigrant who was part of a group engaged in "illegal activity" that "rushed" the officer, the agency said, shifting from an earlier statement that the attacked the officer "using blunt instruments." The woman, identified in an Associated Press report as Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, was allegedly part of a group allegedly attempting to cross the border into the U.S. around midnight on Wednesday near Rio Bravo, Texas.
'That's what happens with you people': 'Unapologetic' Texas border cop shoots illegal immigrant, 20, dead, saying he was under attack with 'blunt objects' - now agency admits she was unarmed Pictured: The adopted one-year-old girl who was found dead by her mom in the family car after her father forgot to drop her in daycare in 89F heat before jetting off on a business trip Several volcanic earthquakes strike near Kilauea's summit as officials add tsunamis to the list of threats posed by ongoing eruptions on Hawaii's Big Island The big getaway! Memorial Day weekend travel is predicted to be the busiest in 13 YEARS with 41.5 million people expected to take a trip 'We are having very productive talks': Trump says North Korea summit could still happen and would 'likely' remain scheduled for June 12 in Singapore University of Southern California president STEPS DOWN over school gynecologist ... (more)
'That's what happens with you people': 'Unapologetic' Texas border cop shoots illegal immigrant, 20, dead, saying he was under attack with 'blunt objects' - now agency admits she was unarmed Pictured: The adopted one-year-old girl who was found dead by her mom in the family car after her father forgot to drop her in daycare in 89F heat before jetting off on a business trip Several volcanic earthquakes strike near Kilauea's summit as officials add tsunamis to the list of threats posed by ongoing eruptions on Hawaii's Big Island The big getaway! Memorial Day weekend travel is predicted to be the busiest in 13 YEARS with 41.5 million people expected to take a trip 'We are having very productive talks': Trump says North Korea summit could still happen and would 'likely' remain scheduled for June 12 in Singapore University of Southern California president STEPS DOWN over school gynecologist ... (more)
'That's what happens with you people': 'Unapologetic' Texas border cop shoots illegal immigrant, 20, dead, saying he was under attack with 'blunt objects' - now agency admits she was unarmed Pictured: The adopted one-year-old girl who was found dead by her mom in the family car after her father forgot to drop her in daycare in 89F heat before jetting off on a business trip Several volcanic earthquakes strike near Kilauea's summit as officials add tsunamis to the list of threats posed by ongoing eruptions on Hawaii's Big Island The big getaway! Memorial Day weekend travel is predicted to be the busiest in 13 YEARS with 41.5 million people expected to take a trip 'We are having very productive talks': Trump says North Korea summit could still happen and would 'likely' remain scheduled for June 12 in Singapore University of Southern California president STEPS DOWN over school gynecologist ... (more)
"#SteveBannon has dangerously and erroneously co-opted my father's name, work and words," she tweeted on Wednesday. "Bannon's assertion that my father, #MLK, would be proud of Donald Trump wholly ignores Daddy's commitment to people of all races, nationalities, etc.