Many children separated from their families at the border cannot be found, says the current Federal Government that separated them in the first place. This is what the Federal Government told a Federal Court a week ago. Actually, the Federal Government was separating children from their families at the border even before they made their policy public. See "Finding All Migrant Children Separated From Their Families May Be Impossible, Feds Say," NBC News, February 2, 2019. In a sense, they were doing it before they were admitting to it.
Children will also be separated from their parents who were admitted into the U.S. under President George H.W. Bush's program to protect what is now about a half million non-citizens in this country. These are people who had valid visas for example but would not go back to the countries they came from when their visas came to an end, because if they returned home when the visas were up they stood a good chance of being killed. The program is called Temporary Protected Status or TPS because no-one, including George H.W. Bush, could ever have imagined that conditions in these countries would get worse, not better, over time. So the question now becomes what happens to the children, once again, if the parents are deported by the current Federal Government. See Teresa Wiltz, Stateline / If Parents Get Deported, Who Gets Their Children?, PEW, October 25, 2018.
Parenthetically, there will be a rally in Washington, D.C. to support people who relied on the Federal Government's word on TPS, on Tuesday, February 12, 2019. "Centro: TPS Supporters Plan to March for Justice in Washington," CBS Boston, February 2, 2019.
Where are all the children going to go? Where have all the children gone? It's time to take a hard look at the numbers of children now being put up for adoption, and whether and in what ways the Federal Government is involved. Is this the real policy at work here, increasing the number of children available for adoption in America. Is this the real policy behind the policy so to speak?
Who would have thought? Like so many things in the America of 2019, who would have thought?
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