• About Us
  • Who Are We
  • Work With Us
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
No Result
View All Result
NEWSLETTER
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

Mexico disappeared students
World

Mexico President Urges Justice in Disappearance of 43 Students

by Staff Writer
August 19, 2022
Mexico murdered journalists
Media Freedom

Journalist Murdered in Mexico, 12th This Year

by Staff Writer
June 29, 2022
Mexico missing people
World

Over 100,000 People Reported Missing in Mexico, Data Reveals

by Staff Writer
May 17, 2022
A man holding a gun
Featured

Safely Back in USA, Land of Guns and Burgers

by Stephen J. Lyons
May 2, 2022
Debanhi Escobar
World

Student’s Death Stokes Anger Over Mexican Femicide Crisis

by Staff Writer
April 29, 2022
Afghan refugees
Opinion

The Insult of Borders

by Stephen J. Lyons
December 9, 2021
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 AFP journalist views an example of a "deepfake" video manipulated using artificial intelligence.

Deepfake ‘News Anchors’ in Pro-China Footage: Research

February 8, 2023
Syrian rescuers and civilians search for victims and survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed building, in the rebel-held northern countryside of Syria's Idlib province on the border with Turkey, early on February 6, 2023. Syrian rescuers (White Helmets) and civilians search for victims and survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed building

Quake Kills Over 1,200 Across Turkey, Syria

February 6, 2023
Protesters rally against the fatal police assault of Tyre Nichols, outside of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit, Michigan, on January 27, 2023

How Do Violent ‘Monsters’ Take Root?

February 3, 2023
A supporter of nurses' strike and NHS holds a placard

UK Faces Fresh Mass Strikes as Wage Talks Derail

February 1, 2023
Israeli security forces in Jerusalem

Palestinian Gunman Kills 7 in East Jerusalem Synagogue Attack

January 30, 2023
The Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight, a decision made by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, during an announcement at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on January 23, 2020

‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves Closest Ever to Midnight

January 25, 2023

Opinion

Protesters rally against the fatal police assault of Tyre Nichols, outside of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit, Michigan, on January 27, 2023

How Do Violent ‘Monsters’ Take Root?

February 3, 2023
George Santos from the 3rd Congressional district of New York

George Santos for Speaker!

January 16, 2023
Commuters waiting for buses in Metro Manila. Philippines

Eight Billion and Counting…

November 29, 2022
Mahsa Amini protests

Imagining a Free Iran

October 24, 2022
Vladimir Putin

How 18th Century International Law Clarifies the Situation in Ukraine

September 29, 2022
Vladimir Putin

Falling for Putin

September 15, 2022
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