And before anybody says “Biden still locks up migrant children,” temporarily holding an unaccompanied minor (for a few days until a relative is located) is not the same as forcibly taking kids from their parents.
Highlights: On Monday, the Biden administration reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of families separated at the US-Mexico border due to Donald Trump’s so-called “zero-tolerance” policy, under which immigration agents removed thousands of migrant children from their parents.
The Trump administration knew it couldn’t properly keep track of children and parents after piloting the practice in 2017, an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found. But it moved forward with family separations anyway.
Many parents were also deported without their children, which made it extraordinarily difficult to reunite those families.
Trump knocked the vase off the table and it shattered into a million tiny pieces
Why hasn’t Biden glued them all back together yet???
It would be more like a few thousand pieces, but it’s not like it’s an absolutely impossible task or anything. Broken vases can be repaired, even in a few thousand pieces, because each piece fits together. Get yourself some vase experts, some glue experts, some puzzle experts, some scientists to microscopically examine the broken edges, etc, and I see no reason why it can’t be done. You can literally ask the kids what their parents’ names are. You can ask them where they used to live. You can contact the government of that country and ask if that person has had an address in the last 5 years, or a job, or been to the hospital, or paid taxes, etc. You can ask the kids if they have any family or former neighbors that might know the whereabouts of their parents. Do the parents not have a phone number or a Facebook page? Not even an email associated with them? Surely a large squad of investigators backed by the government should be able to track people down in a world as filled with surveillance and digital records keeping as it is.
I find it very hard to believe that hundreds of families have simply vanished from the face of the earth, are now entirely impossible to locate, and that it’s unreasonable to expect any progress at all at this point. That’s defeatist thinking for no reason at all. Doxxers online can find out your name, where you live, where you work, and much more without ever even having to meet you, all just from small hints from your online presence. And you’re going to tell me a massive interagency task force assembled for specifically this purpose and has the full backing of the US government is naturally powerless to do anything? It sounds like you should hold the government to a higher standard. Just because the government never meets those standards doesn’t mean we should lower our standards. We shouldn’t be quiet about it when the government isn’t meeting those standards, either.
Yeah, Trump started this, no denial there, but Trump isn’t president anymore and hasn’t been for a few years. Trump almost certainly wouldn’t be capable of reunification of those families and had no plans to, but Biden actually might be able to, so I’m going to push him hard to do so and get it done ASAP.