Immigration Article 1

This article posted on March 9, 2019, reports on the continued separations of families seeking asylum. It covers the basics of the family separation policy, it’s dissolution, and it’s continued existence despite the policy having been officially rescinded. The article lists the number of families separated, the growing numbers, the ramifications on both children and parents, and the political ramifications. This program worked largely without proper oversight and has been proven to be traumatic to the children. The article continues, giving detailed mini-chronicles of some of these family’s stories. The Customs and Border Protection officials claim all current separations are legal under current law, though in fact they are separating families for minor and often outdated crimes that have been resolved already. Many of the separations are done without any justification to the point where the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement has started trying to refuse to take the children separated by the policy. Records have been kept so poorly that there are many accounts of parents being told that no one knew where thier kids were, children have been separated from parents and sent all over the country with little to no proper records or oversight. Children from newborns to teens have been relocated, with little explanation and are scared, confused, and lost in a strange country with strange people and no adults that they trust. One young woman, age 18 was so distraught by the  separation of herself and her two younger siblings from thier mother that she had to be hospitalized for threatening suicide. It has gotten so bad that the American Civil Liberties Union have had to intervene, demanding that the missing and children be found. This situation has not been resolved as of this article’s publishing.