Trump’s Quiet War on Migrant Kids [themarshallproject.org]

Alicia Doktor 5/2/184:00 AM

On April 4, the White House posted a fact sheet on its website warning that legal “loopholes” were allowing tens of thousands of immigrant children who entered the country on their own to remain in the United States.

The next day, another post went up: “Loopholes in Child Trafficking Laws Put Victims—and American Citizens—At Risk.”

And the same week, the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services not normally known for its politics, announced that it “joins the President in calling for Congress to close dangerous loopholes.”

[For more on this story by ELI HAGER, go to https://www.themarshallproject...-war-on-migrant-kids]

For another story on this topic, see Inside the ACLU's Suit to Stop ICE From Separating Immigrant Families.

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