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The U.S. Still Can’t Say How Many Families It Separated
A new government report is a reminder of the administration’s horrifying treatment of the youngest migrants.
May 16, 2019, near El Paso, Texas.
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Almost two years ago, Representative Zoe Lofgren of California appeared at a community meeting to address what she called the “egregious situation” at the U.S. border with Mexico. Lofgren, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration and citizenship, said the U.S. government was taking toddlers from migrant parents and sending them “who knows where.”
Last week a government report confirmed that, in a startling number of cases, not even the government knows where.