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A new report says the parents of 545 children separated at the border can’t be found.
We obtained a January 2018 memo from DHS highlighting problems with the early “pilot” family-separation program.
One “negative impact” listed: “New populations of U.S. orphans.”
We obtained a January 2018 memo from DHS highlighting problems with the early “pilot” family-separation program.
One “negative impact” listed: “New populations of U.S. orphans.”
The memo was based on DHS Civil Rights/Civil Liberties office’s investigation of 27 of the 950 “family separation matters” the office had received since 2016.
It cited problems with “inconsistent, inaccurate, or no record-keeping for all arriving family members” in DHS systems;
It cited problems with “inconsistent, inaccurate, or no record-keeping for all arriving family members” in DHS systems;
a “lack of communication” between DHS and HHS, which is charged with caring for unaccompanied minors, leading to “family fragmentation”; and “problematic outcomes” such as “nursing mothers and infants separated.” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6257038-DHS-Records-Regarding-Communications-with.html#document/p230/a562352
Read our extensive timeline of the administration’s communications about family separation, including both its public statements about the policy and internal discussions we uncovered through FOIA here: https://www.americanoversight.org/a-timeline-of-the-trump-administrations-family-separation-policy
