United States, Trump still separating families

This 31 July 2019 PBS TV video from the USA says about itself:

The American Civil Liberties Union says the Trump administration has continued to separate migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, despite a federal judge’s 2018 ruling to stop the practice. Amna Nawaz talks to the ACLU’s Lee Galernt about how many kids have been affected, why the numbers are rising and what the administration’s rationale is for the separations.

Translated from Dutch NOS TV today:

Human rights group: USA unjustly separates families at the Mexican border

The American human rights organization ACLU says that 911 children were separated from their parents in the past year after they had travelled illegally from Mexico to the United States. That practice was officially stopped last June, but according to ACLU it still occurs regularly due to tampering with rules. The organization has now asked a judge for clear criteria.

A year ago an international fuss arose about separating children from their parents in reception centres along the US American border. That happened with about 2,700 children. President Trump reversed the practice after fierce criticism; shortly thereafter, a judge also ended it. It left room for exceptions, for example when a child is in danger or the parents have a criminal record.

The American Civil Liberties Union now says that the authorities are stretching those exceptional situations. A one-year-old girl, they say, has been taken away from her father because he let her sleep with a dirty diaper on.

Very possibly, because the prison did not want to provide clean diapers.

In another case, the reason was that a parent had once driven a car without a driver’s license. “The government should not circumvent a court ruling with matters such as minor traffic violations”, says an ACLU spokesperson.

The human rights organization relies on documents provided by the Department of Justice. 185 children were younger than 5 when they were separated from their parents.

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More than 900 children taken from their families in the last year. Trump administration continuing family separations at US-Mexico border despite court order: here.

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