" Customs and Border Protection ... did not have a distinct classification for more than 2,600 children who had been stripped away from their families and placed in government shelters.
" So agents came up with a new term: “deleted family units.”
" But when they sent that information to the refugee office at the Department of Health and Human Services, ... the office’s database did not have a column for families with that designation.
" Compounding failures to record, classify and keep track of migrant parents and children pulled apart by President Trump’s “zero tolerance” border crackdown were at the core of what is now widely regarded as one of the biggest debacles of his presidency. "
Yes, I know, the illegal aliens knew they were committing a crime and put their children in jeopardy, but does that really justify the callus separation of families without regard to rejoining them ?
and what about the "callus separation" when parents go to jail for molesting children...we do need to end that now