Hard to Watch; Immigration & Children as Political Footballs
KARA reportingMike TikkanenJuly 16, 2019
Republished from the Kids at Risk Action archive as written. No images from the original corpus appear in any form.
Dropping napalm on children and families in Vietnam (PBS video) was an unforgivable evil. Thousands of small children died by napalm.
Burned alive is the most painful death anyone can suffer. Survivors live with scars and trauma that never end.
Today, my government takes helpless babies & children from parents and places them in the custody of money driven defense contractors who warehouse them in cages at vacant shopping centers by the thousands.
The American Psychological Association condemns this act as needlessly cruel threatening “the mental and physical health of both the children and their caregivers”.
*Torturing immigrant children for political reasons is a vile act and it needs to be called out. *The World Health Organization defines torture as “extended exposure to violence and deprivation”.
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Family Separation by the Numbers – ACLU
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While we believe this data provides a valuable window into the family separation crisis, we also have some concerns about how comprehensive and accurate it …
Fact Sheet: Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border – National …
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Jun 20, 2018 – Trump administration policy changes are driving family separation. Children are being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border as a direct result of …
Immigration news: hundreds of families are still being separated at the …
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Feb 21, 2019 – New government statistics show 250 parents have been separated from children since a June court order. … Eight months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop separating parents and children at the US-Mexico border, families are still being separated.
Family Separation May Have Hit Thousands More Migrant Children …
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Jan 17, 2019 – But she said the figures continued to evolve, for several reasons. The absence of an integrated data system to track separated families through …
Family Separation and Detention – American Bar Association
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Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids’ Detention
A scandal-plagued company that used to work for the CIA is poised to profit off the influx of immigrant children being forcibly separated from their parents.
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Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isn’t just an emotionally wrenching policy. It’s an enterprise that is benefitting intelligence and defense contractors.
Those contractors, including one with a history of scandals, have advertised a flurry of jobs in recent weeks to support the infrastructure surrounding undocumented children whom the Trump administration has taken from their families.
One of them, from Virginia-based MVM Inc., seeks a compliance coordinatorto help in San Antonio with the “rapid deployment of an Emergency Influx Shelter for unaccompanied children.” As billed, the coordinator would ensure the children’s shelter met “policies and procedures” set by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. MVM posted the job on its website this week.
MVM appears to believe its business is growing. A job posting on Indeed.comfrom 20 days ago advertises for youth care workers “in anticipation of a contract award.”
Matthew Kolken, an immigration attorney who frequently represents undocumented children, told The Daily Beast he’s deeply concerned about these contractors’ child care work.
“I’m guessing that in their mission statement, one of the central components isn’t the care of refugee children,” he said. “It is mind-blowing that those types of industries would be even considered with respect to the care of children. They’re not equipped to be able to do it. Would you want your child to be dropped off in their hands? I know I wouldn’t.”
“It is mind-blowing that those types of industries would be even considered with respect to the care of children. Would you want your child to be dropped off in their hands? I know I wouldn’t.”
, Immigration attorney Matthew Kolken
Because of a new Justice Department zero-tolerance policy toward people entering the country illegally, parents caught bringing their children to the United States, including those seeking asylum, are automatically arrested and detained pending immigration court proceedings. Previously, some parents were let out on bond, often with ankle monitors. Hundreds and hundreds of children have been separated from their newly detained parents since the policy change. The children enter the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. ORR puts the children in shelters or foster care. This is where the contractors come in: to help ORR with the logistics of caring for these children. The shelters that house children appear to be operating above capacity.
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