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Government Using Loopholes to Separate Immigrant Families [mysanantonio.com]

 

By Sophie Phillips, My San Antonio, July 30, 2019

In the past year, despite an executive order to end the policy allowing the separation of migrant children from their parents, followed by a judicial order to reunify those families, our government has continued to separate and traumatize children. One might ask how this tragedy continues to occur.

There were loopholes in the court’s decision: Children could still be separated from parents with criminal histories or considered dangerous to the child, or if they suffered communicable diseases.

All seemingly reasonable stipulations, except that advocacy groups who are face to face with these families are reporting the government is inappropriately exploiting those loopholes — reducing the orders to ineffective words on paper. Children also can be separated from other relatives, such as siblings or grandparents. We would never tolerate such flimsy pretenses for taking away children from U.S. citizens.

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