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I want you to answer the question: What would you be doing differently right now? To focus on you, not what you believe others are saying.
Okay. You've started. The bold. No information on the adequacy of current procedures but to advocate for better if you think them insufficient is a positive. And they may well insufficient, for there is understaffing with a now enormous workload. That's fair.
The underlined statement. This goes to what is not quite as clear. Let me be direct. Are you saying?:
Because the checking to ensure that the adults with the child are indeed their parents may be insufficient we need to ensure that - what group? who? - do not continue on a journey - to where?
Are you advocating for a return to the practice of separating all (?) children from their parents once they cross the border, for obviously the US has no authority in Mexico? To separate them in some new detention facility or not allow them to leave Customs - ICE facility with their alleged-parents in the event that some unknown number might be trafficked?
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Here, I went back to my original post (and questions). We seem to still be at those first questions, with my certainly agreeing with what you were saying but not clear if you wanted some action based on that concern:
There are two issues:
1. THIS IS OP's concern: How to ensure that those children who were separated are returned to the rightful parents. Record-keeping was sloppy. There are reports that the numbers separated are higher than first reported.
2. THIS IS YOUR concern: How to ensure that children who continue to arrive at the border are with their parents not a trafficker. Whatever I may think of how Trump has handled matters, there are good-faith efforts by CBP-ICE to monitor this with a system in place. Certainly, it needs to be done.
It's not clear what you are advocating. What would you do differently? No one has ever alleged there are "no questions asked."
Does it really matter what I would do? It's not like anyone in the government is going to listen to me and have an "aha!" moment. So, why keep picking at this?
BTW, I have mentioned doing DNA tests, which just may be getting done now.
Look, all I know is that there is a serious problem with children being trafficked across the border.
And, yes, it concerns me. As a mother, I wouldn't want to see my child in that situation.
Does it really matter what I would do? It's not like anyone in the government is going to listen to me and have an "aha!" moment. So, why keep picking at this?
BTW, I have mentioned doing DNA tests, which just may be getting done now.
Look, all I know is that there is a serious problem with children being trafficked across the border.
And, yes, it concerns me. As a mother, I wouldn't want to see my child in that situation.
Now, seriously, what more do you want from me?
Actually my original response was:
"I understand the words but I've not noticed the posts. Curious, I'd be interested in links. This isn't some sort of challenge and if the time isn't worth it ... no worries."
But, yes, I too am a mother. The mother of a child who was separated from her birth parents at an early age. The trauma can be severe. I never want to see children separated from parents for political advantage. Or even to act as a deterrent to future asylum applications.
You can still apply for asylum even if you passed through Mexico from your home country.
You don't have to apply for asylum to the first country you hit.
Not that I can find....but will wait your legal expertise on this matter.
In the US you don't apply for asylum, you can claim asylum if you are a legally registered refugee. You cannot be registered as a legal refugee within the borders of the US. You could try at a PoE and be held pending clearance to enter, if you wish to do this legally.
Further under UN Treaty, a refugee/asylee must abide by the laws of the country they enter or risk extradition. By definition someone entering the US illegally has failed to meet the UN treaty requirements, thus has predisqualified themselves to legal asylum (although they may receive it anyway at the discretion of the country, but there is no obligation).
I can’t believe that a president would want to separate children from their parents, but the worst thing is, trump had no plans to reunite families and it’s extremely sad! Will some of these young kids and babies ever see their families again?
I was under the impression this president wanted nothing more than for these parents to take their children home with them and stop sending their children to the border in the company of coyotes. I cant believe so many parents would have so little regard for the safety and well being of their own children as to put them in such an unsafe situation.
I was under the impression this president wanted nothing more than for these parents to take their children home with them and stop sending their children to the border in the company of coyotes. I cant believe so many parents would have so little regard for the safety and well being of their own children as to put them in such an unsafe situation.
It's the other way around. While there could be some trafficked children within the caravans, they formed to avoid having to pay the cartel fees. This they could accomplish by banding together for safety. It's also why the Mexican government's provided some assistance in the form of buses and shelters - to protect them from the cartels and other dangers.
The previous pattern had been for mainly single men to cross the border - which is not easily accomplished - often by paying coyote fees. That money was not easy to come by for them. Ironically, that the journey is now potentially free (no fees for multiple family members) and arguably safer is what encouraged more families to come with their children.
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