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Thousands More Migrant Children Were Probably Taken From Families Than Reported

The government has reported about 2,700 migrant children separated from their families at the border last year. But the removals may have involved thousands more.

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As of December, the department had identified 2,737 children who were separated from their parents under the policy and required to be reunified by a federal court order issued in June 2018.

Ann Maxwell, the Health and Human Services Department’s assistant inspector general for evaluation and inspections, said the separations appeared to have been occurring for a full year before the court issued its order.

“The total number is unknown,” she said. “It is certainly more than 2,737, but how many more, precisely, is unknown.” Moreover, that number may never be known: Department officials, she said, had told her office that there were “no efforts underway to identify that. It would take away resources from children already in care.”

In an email after the call, Ms. Maxwell’s spokesman confirmed that inspectors believed the number of separated children may be “thousands” more than the 2,737 reported to the court.

Thus, the total number of children separated from a parent or guardian by immigration authorities is “unknown,” because of the lack of a coordinated formal tracking system between the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the arm of Health and Human Services that takes in the children, and the Department of Homeland Security, which separated them from their parents.

Lee Gelernt, who challenged the policy in court on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union. “We will be back in court and ask the judge to order the government to explain these numbers,” he said.

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

Campaign Action Following data showing officials had kidnapped nearly 2,000 migrant children from parents at the border during a six week period this past spring...

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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.

If my ancestors had not immigrated to the United States when they did, if they waited a few more years until 1924, the door would have been shut.

My parents would have gone up the crematory chimney, I wouldn't have born, my sister wouldn't have been born and certainly Stephen would never have existed.

— David Glosser, Uncle to White House senior adviser Stephen Miller

Homeland Security Advisory Council Members Resign Over 'Repugnant' Family Separations

"This is child kidnapping, plain and simple," Eilzabeth Holtzman wrote.

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The four former members ― Richard Danzig, Elizabeth Holtzman, David Marin and Matthew Olsen ― signed a resignation letter last week and gave it to Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen, the Washington Post reported. The letter blasts the Trump administration for its cruel treatment of families who have been separated at the border.

@ElTiempoCantina It is mind blowing that you would actually serve Mexican food to a bigot that is hell bent & determined to ruin the lives of Mexican people. Houstonians won’t support ANY business that supports Jeff Sessions and his  #BabyJails. Was it worth it? #BoycottElTiempo

—  Kay Webber‏ @kandice_webber

• #ICEtapo 
• #InternmentCamps  #SouthwestKey
• #KidnappingKids
• #DruggingKids  #Shiloh  #CasaGuadalupe
• #PsyOps
• #TRE45ON

We filed a Hatch Act complaint against Trump's director of media affairs for Latino and African-American news outlets, Helen Aguirre Ferré. Less than a week later, she's leaving the White House.

— Citizens for Ethics‏  @CREWcrew -  Aug 10, 2018

Ferré,  the daughter of Nicaraguan parents, leaves the administration amid criticism of its "zero tolerance" immigration policy, although Ferré remained loyal to the president on this issue. At a this past June, Ferré said that she would "support the president's efforts in securing the border, and I support the president's efforts in ensuring that the laws are enacted properly."

Ferré leaves the White House without it having a Spanish-language version of its website, something that was offered by the  two previous administrations. The Spanish-language site was slated to be launched at the end of 2017, but it has been stalled.

She is also leaving the Trump administration that she violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government from participating in political activities. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an organization that works to promote ethical and accountable government, accused Ferré of violating the act by posting Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" on her official Twitter page. Ferré is the latest in a series of  White House departures. Her exit follows that of Carlos Díaz-Rosillo, former deputy assistant to the president and director of policy and interagency coordination. Díaz-Rosillo, another prominent Hispanic member of the administration, left in June. In another high-profile departure, first lady Melania Trump lost her policy director after only six months on the job.

During Thursday’s hearing, [Rep. Zoe] Lofgren repeatedly asked Lloyd if girls and young women in ORR custody have constitutional rights and Lloyd repeatedly sidestepped the question, saying that those coming to the United States have “the potential to become a full U.S. citizen with full rights to all the freedoms we enjoy,” but that it’s “a process … as a person moves through the process, they gain additional rights.”

A closer look at Lloyd’s background indicates that he may not only be unqualified and ill-equipped to lead ORR, but that he was another ideological pick by the Trump administration whose personal beliefs mirror those of anti-choice extremists and men’s rights activists.

He has pushed the anti-choice lie that “contraceptives are the cause of abortion” and that “if we did not have contraceptives in this country, we would not have anywhere near the abortion rate we do now.”

• Before becoming ORR director, Lloyd was an attorney for the Catholic charity Knights of Columbus and served on the board of the Front Royal Pregnancy Center, an anti-choice fake clinic. 
• Lloyd is affiliated with a network of religious organizations, including Human Life International, Veritatis Splendor, and the WitnessWorks Foundation. 
• These organizations are affiliated and encourage members to “undertake no legal matters, nor any legal strategies, that conflict with Church Teachings [sic].”
• Under George W. Bush, Lloyd as a Health and Human Services official, advocated for a rule protecting health-care providers that oppose abortion rights on religious grounds. 

HHS official says he warned about the trauma family separation would cause and was ignored

The administration moved forward with the policy anyway.

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1. There was no mention of kids being drugged or abused
2. OR U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee ordering Trump’s government to stop drugging immigrant children without proper consent from a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist
3. OR Judge Gee ordering the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to move immigrant children out of the Shiloh Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas, and into less restrictive housing

“Separation of children from their parents entails significant risk of harm to children”, Jonathan White

“There's no question. There's no question that separation of children from parents entails significant potential for traumatic psychological injury to the child.“, Jonathan White

“I think the best way to describe them is to be more like a summer camp.”

"These individuals have access to 24/7 food and water. They have educational opportunities. They have recreational opportunities, both structured as well as unstructured. There's basketball courts, there's exercise classes, there's soccer fields that we put in there. They have extensive medical, dental and mental health opportunities. In fact, many of these individuals, the first time they've ever seen a dentist, is when they've come to one of our (family residential) centers."

- Matthew Albence, head of Enforcement and Removal Operations for ICE

Testifying at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on July 31, 2018

• Drug companies needed kids for human trials
• Stephen Miller, Sessions and Nielsen are starting their own mind control program. It happened before. The CIA used LSD as apart of a mind control program.
• The Trump Administration are just sick sadistic F’s. FACT: The Nazis also kidnapped kids and subjected them to medical experiments including psychoactive drugs.

A federal judge in California has ruled the government must release most kids being held in a notorious Texas facility where they were given psychiatric medications without parental consent, and that federal baby jailers must get proper consent or a court order to administer such meds in the future.

It's a big win for immigrant advocates who contended the government-contracted facilities misused psychiatric drugs as "chemical straight jackets" to force kids into compliance. We agree, that's terrible. For one thing, it's "straitjacket."

The lawsuit involved yet another follow-up to the 1997 Flores settlement, which limited how long the government can detain minors in immigration cases, and was overseen by US District Judge Dolly Gee. The defendants were the Department of Justice and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency responsible for caring for migrant kids. ORR had been housing kids at Shiloh Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas, where kids were sent for a lot of reasons Gee found violated the terms of Flores, particularly the terms that required minors be housed in the "least restrictive setting" possible unless they were determined to be a danger to themselves or others, as the song goes.

The Center for Investigative Reporting, relying on court documents that cited the testimony of kids and parents, discovered in June that kids at Shiloh were routinely medicated, and often had no idea why -- or for that matter, why they'd been sent to Shiloh in the first place. Some had extreme side effects, like being so dizzy they had trouble walking or even sitting up in a chair.

• Gee cited the case of at least one boy who was deprived of water as a "security measure" 
• Gee cited one child who'd testified about being given "seven pills every day" and another who said "I take pills every morning and every night,"

Shiloh is among 71 companies that receive funds from the federal government to house and supervise immigrant children deemed unaccompanied minors.