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BREAKING: We just sued the Department of Homeland Security and Kirstjen Nielsen for failing to create records linking immigrant children to their parents

— Citizens for Ethics‏ @CREWcrew -  Oct 26, 2018

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen violated the Federal Records Act (FRA) by failing to create records linking immigrant children to their parents and failing to establish an adequate agency-wide records management program, according to a lawsuit filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

• DHS failed to make and preserve adequate documentation of thousands of children and parents taken into its custody, and, consequently, has been unable to reunify each of the families it separated.
• DHS also falsely represented to the public its ability to track the thousands of parents and children harmed by its Zero Tolerance Policy. 
• Equally troubling is the revelation, recently made by a former DHS official, that career DHS employees repeatedly raised concerns about the agency’s records management deficiencies during the rollout of the Zero Tolerance Policy, but that political appointees ignored those concerns.

“The Trump Administration’s haphazard implementation of the Zero Tolerance Policy paired with DHS’s failure to meet basic record-keeping requirements mandated by federal law has had catastrophic consequences on the lives of thousands of immigrants seeking entry to our country, even threatening the permanent separation of children from their parents,” said CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder. 

“Rarely, if ever, has an agency’s violation of its statutory record keeping obligations had such grave implications. With the administration considering reinstating a new form of their failed policy, it is crucial that they be compelled to follow the law, which makes this lawsuit even more urgent.”

Kirstjen Nielsen is Full of Shit

As Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen has gone to great lengths to pretend that the government agency she runs had nothing to do with Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border. But according to a memo that Nielsen personally signed, she was fully aware of the policy while it was in place.

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1. HHS official, Commander Jonathan White warned about the trauma family separation would cause and was ignored #PsyOps
2. Immigrant Mothers Were Moved Outdoors During Kirstjen Nielsen’s Secretive Visit to Detention Center. They Shouted for Help to No Avail.
3. ICE Summer Camps where Kids are Forcibly Drugged #ShilohRTC #CasaGuadalupe. 5 year old Adonias, “I want to die”
4. Scott Lloyd Was Responsible For Keeping Hundreds Of Kids Locked Up Longer
5. Ex-CIA Contractor Makes Millions Flying Immigrant Kids to Shelters

Newly obtained memo shows Nielsen signed off on family separation policy she claimed never existed

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“The memo, first reported on by the Washington Post on April 26, but never previously published, provides evidence that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen signed off on a policy of family separation despite her repeated claims denying that there was such a policy,” Open the Government and the Project On Government Oversight reveal. “The Post appears to have obtained a copy of the memo prior to its signature.”

Still, not one Trump official has been jailed, been fired, or been forced to resign over this catastrophic humanitarian disaster and subsequent violation of a court order. Among the top of the list should be Kirstjen Nielsen, who in true Trumpian fashion, stood on her platform and gaslighted the nation about what was happening before our very eyes. She knew about it, she apparently signed off on it, and then lied to our faces.