Maybe one day I’ll start a thread on some of the more recent child abuse scandals (than Franklin). I've posted on Franklin previously here:
https://3169.createaforum.com/conspiracy/mk-ultramind-controlsatanic-ritual-abusemonarch-programming-etc/msg2149/#msg2149For the past year, continuation of the Obama administration policy of stealing children from their parents and turning them over to child traffickers by the Trump administration didn’t get much attention, but forcibly separating children from their migrant parents caused some people to protest.
See protesters at a Homeland Security facility in Elizabeth, N.J.:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/06/19/world/19UN-Migrants2/merlin_139750515_38b8c186-40dd-473e-924c-4030f7e7bf44-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webpTop official with the HHS Steven Wagner told Congress that his agency did a routine check-up on 7,635 children who had been placed with “sponsors” between October and December of 2017 and found that: 6,075 children remained with their sponsors; 28 had run away; 5 had left the US; 52 had relocated to live with someone else; and 1,475 children were unaccounted for (about 19%).
Wagner:
There's no reason to believe that anything has happened to the kids. If you call a friend and they don't answer the phone, you don't assume that they've been kidnapped.
I have confidence in our decision to select sponsors in all categories.
Sens. Rob Portman and Tom Carper told about the (no) follow-up on promises made by federal officials.
The HHS had signed a memorandum of understanding in 2016 to prevent similar episodes, but in April 2018, they still had not made any improvements.
HHS said it isn’t legally responsible for children after they have been “released” to “sponsors”.
Portman said:
HHS told this subcommittee that once it places children with sponsors — even sponsors who are not related to the children — it no longer has legal responsibility for them. Not if they're abused. Not if they miss their court hearings. No responsibility.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, called the HHS "
the worst foster parents in the world":
https://eu.marionstar.com/story/news/local/2018/04/26/still-little-follow-up-child-migrant-cases-after-forced-labor-ring-probe/554284002/Placing “illegal migrant” children that aren’t accompanied by their parents (or other relatives) with sponsors is a policy that was started during the Obama administration.
The Trump administration separates children from their families that are caught “illegally” entering the US. Children have been placed in foster care when their parents were criminally charged with an immigration violation.
They insist this is not a new policy, but was implemented during the time George W. Bush was US President.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the guilty egg farmers (that profit from the slave labour) or the government officials that release children to child traffickers won’t be prosecuted, but only the smugglers and the illegal aliens will be punished:
If you cross this border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It's that simple. If you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you. If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don't like that, then don't smuggle children over our border.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/29/heres-what-happening-immigrant-children-u-s-border/650755002/Latino migrant children as young as 14, complained they were locked in solitary confinement without clothes, strapped to chairs with bags over their heads and beaten at the Shenandoah Valley juvenile center in Virginia.
A state review into the treatment of these immigrant teens confirms that between 2015 and 2018 they used restraint techniques that include strapping children to chairs and placing mesh bags over their heads.
The state review concluded that the restraint techniques “
did not meet the legal definition of abuse or neglect”:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/13/virginia-detention-center-strapped-migrant-children-to-chairs-report-findsThe new policy was introduced (around half) April, after Jeff Sessions announced that the administration would start a “zero-tolerance” policy:
Between 19 April and 31 May, 1,995 children were separated from their families;
From early May to early June 2,342 children were separated from their families.
Note that these periods overlap…
On Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, said about the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border that “
inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable”.
Al Hussein said:
The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable. I call on the United States to immediately end the practice of forcible separation of these children.
People do not lose their human rights by virtue of crossing a border without a visa. I deplore the adoption by many countries of policies intended to make themselves as inhospitable as possible by increasing the suffering of many already vulnerable people.
Amnesty International’s Americas director called the “
spectacularly cruel” practice “
nothing short of torture”.
Even prominent Republicans have criticised this new policy including Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush . Among the words used by Republicans in Congress: Fred Upton “
ugly and inhumane”; Mario Diaz-Balart “
totally unacceptable”; Mia Love “
horrible”.
Two Republican governors ended National Guard deployments to the border in protest.
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said:
It's an atrocious policy. It's inhumane. It's offensive to the average American.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen lied last weekend:
We do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period.
Congress and the courts created this problem, and Congress alone can fix it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/border-immigrants-facts-trump-us-mexico-children-families-separate-a8407106.html(archived here:
http://archive.is/ryc14)
At least 8 governors, including Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), have pulled their National Guard troops from the border in protest of the separation policy.
The NBC explained that for the last 2 months, also children arriving with their parents were put in the hands of “sponsors” and that parents might never find them back:
You could easily end up in a situation where the gap between a parent's deportation and a child's deportation is years,’ said. As a result, parents may find themselves back in their home countries struggling to find their children.
The 5-year-old son of the Honduran woman Ana Rivera was taken away, and she has not seen him in over a month leaving her in a state of panic.
One of the arguments used for locking up the children separated from their parents, is that they don’t have enough tax money…
It costs $256 per child per day to hold them in permanent HHS facilities like Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas.
It’ll cost $775 per child per day to detain them in newly created “tent cities”.
Locking children up with their parents in detention centres like the one run by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement in Dilley, Texas costs $298 per resident per day:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/06/20/daily-202-trump-s-family-separation-policy-tests-the-leadership-abilities-of-ryan-and-mcconnell/5b29a6e730fb046c468e6f14/?utm_term=.028aacb1c236(archived here:
http://archive.fo/AkHZB)
Donald Trump says the Democrats created a law that separates children from parents who cross the US-Mexico border illegally.
On 16 June, President Donald tweeted:
Democrats can fix their forced family break-up at the border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change!
In 1997, President Clinton signed the Flores Settlement law that required unaccompanied minors who arrive in the US to be released to their parents, a legal guardian or an adult relative.
In 2008, President George W. Bush signed a statute that requires unaccompanied minors to be transferred out of immigration centres within 72 hours.
Neither law (nor any other law) insists on separating children from parents at the border, so Donald Trump was (again) lying:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44303556