• About Us
  • Who Are We
  • Work With Us
Monday, June 23, 2025
No Result
View All Result
The Globe Post
39 °f
New York
44 ° Fri
46 ° Sat
40 ° Sun
41 ° Mon
No Result
View All Result
The Globe Post
No Result
View All Result
Home National

US Official: Nearly 2,000 Children Separated From Adults at Border

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
06/15/18
in National
Migrant women and children with a US border patrol officer

A US Border Patrol officer oversees a group of women and children who crossed the border from Mexico. Photo: AFP

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Nearly 2,000 minors were separated from their parents or adult guardians who illegally crossed into the United States over a recent six-week period, officials said Friday in the most comprehensive 2018 figures provided on family separations.

Between April 19 and May 31, 1,995 children were separated from 1,940 adults who were being held by U.S. border patrol in preparation for prosecution for crossing the border illegally, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said on a call with reporters.

The detention numbers appear to have spiked after President Donald J. Trump‘s administration announced a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal border crossings earlier this year.

JUST IN: President Trump blames Democrats when asked by @kwelkernbc if his administration's policy to separate children from their parents at the US-Mexico border is inhumane. pic.twitter.com/uS2qAb7c80

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 15, 2018

Amid an outcry over the detention of children — some 1,500 boys are being held in a former Walmart supermarket in Texas — a DHS official insisted that the minors were enjoying decent conditions.

“We have some of the highest detention standards in the world for children,” he said.

Trump has claimed he hates the idea of separating children from the parents who try to enter the country, but the administration has acknowledged that crackdown on the families could serve as a deterrent.

“Right now, we are in a circumstance where either we choose to enforce the law or we choose to ignore it,” a DHS official said. “And this administration has made it clear that we are not going to ignore the law any longer.”

Amid the crackdown, the detained parents are “in jail settings,” the official said, awaiting adjudication and possible prosecution for crossing the border. The process can take several weeks.

“We are unable to keep families in a detention setting together for an extended period,” the DHS official said, noting that nowhere else in the United States are law enforcement agencies expected to detain children with their parents. “In no other context are we being asked to detain children with parents who are facing criminal charges.”

There is no law that requires parents be separated from their children at the border. But if parents in the United States are jailed, their children are split from them because the children are not themselves charged with a crime.

ShareTweet
Staff Writer

Staff Writer

AFP with The Globe Post

Related Posts

A Black Lives Matter mural in New York City.
Opinion

Fuhgeddaboudit! America’s Erasure of History

by Stephen J. Lyons
April 2, 2025
Mexico's president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
World

Mexicans Celebrate Election of First Woman President

by Staff Writer with AFP
June 4, 2024
Donald Trump
National

Trump Hails Super Tuesday Wins in Race to the White House

by Staff Writer with AFP
March 6, 2024
Security forces pass by a corpse as they inspect the area where at least 11 police officers were killed in an ambush by criminal groups in Coyuca de Benitez, state of Guerrero, Mexico
World

Armed Attacks in Mexico Leave 24 Dead, Including at Least 12 Police

by Staff Writer
October 24, 2023
People visit the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai
World

China Unveils New Operating System Amid US Tensions

by Staff Writer
July 6, 2023
Mexico disappeared students
World

Mexico President Urges Justice in Disappearance of 43 Students

by Staff Writer
August 19, 2022
Next Post
An ambulance in Caracas

Venezuelan Official: 17 Dead in Caracas Club Stampede Sparked by Tear Gas

macedonia greece tsipras

Macedonia Signs Historic Deal With Greece to Rename Itself

Please login to join discussion

Recommended

An Iranian protester

Iran’s Nuclear Program: From Its Origins to Today’s Dispute

June 23, 2025
Protesters and police clash during the “No Kings” protest in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 2025.

US Appeals Court Allows Trump Control of National Guard in LA

June 20, 2025
Donald Trump

Fact vs. Fiction: The Trump Administration’s Dubious War on Reverse Discrimination

June 18, 2025
Iranian missiles and Israeli interceptors light up the sky over Beirut, Lebanon, on June 14, 2025. Iran launched multiple missiles toward Israeli targets, triggering interception attempts above several regional capitals, including Beirut.

Israel-Iran Conflict: Latest Developments

June 18, 2025
Tens of thousands of protestors shut down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday, April 5, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's abuse of the separation of federal powers as well as the deep cuts to governmental services overseen by presidential advisor Elon Musk.

Civil Society Is Holding the Line. Will Washington Notice?

June 17, 2025
An Iranian walking in front of a wall painting of the Iranian flag in Tehran

How Much Damage Has Israel Inflicted on Iran’s Nuclear Program?

June 16, 2025

Opinion

Donald Trump

Fact vs. Fiction: The Trump Administration’s Dubious War on Reverse Discrimination

June 18, 2025
Tens of thousands of protestors shut down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday, April 5, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's abuse of the separation of federal powers as well as the deep cuts to governmental services overseen by presidential advisor Elon Musk.

Civil Society Is Holding the Line. Will Washington Notice?

June 17, 2025
A Black Lives Matter mural in New York City.

Fuhgeddaboudit! America’s Erasure of History

April 2, 2025
Bust of Deputy Rubens Paiva in the Chamber of Deputies

Democratic Brazilians Are Still Here

March 18, 2025
A woman from Guatemala

Dispatch From Central America

January 28, 2025
US President Donald Trump

Dear Trump Supporters: Is This the America You Wanted?

January 28, 2025
Facebook Twitter

Newsletter

Do you like our reporting?
SUBSCRIBE

About Us

The Globe Post

The Globe Post is part of Globe Post Media, a U.S. digital news organization that is publishing the world's best targeted news sites.

submit oped

© 2018 The Globe Post

No Result
View All Result
  • National
  • World
  • Business
  • Interviews
  • Lifestyle
  • Democracy at Risk
    • Media Freedom
  • Opinion
    • Editorials
    • Columns
    • Book Reviews
    • Stage
  • Submit Op-ed

© 2018 The Globe Post