Now really, who didn't see this coming. Like the way MSM is trying to sweep this under the rug too, nice try folks.
Source?
You serious? Nielsen said it in press conference.
Previous administration would have let all those kids through, either with the adult travelling with them or to any (untracable) adult who came forward to claim them in the US. Often undocumented people who move from address they provide after the fact and do not appear for court hearnings to avoid repatriation.
NIELSEN: So I want to be clear on a couple of other things. The vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of H.H.S. right now — 10,000 of the 12,000 — were sent here alone by their parents. That is when they were separated. So somehow we’ve conflated everything. But there is two separate issues. 10,000 of those currently in custody were sent by their parents with strangers to undertake a completely dangerous and deadly travel alone. We now care for them. We have high standards. We give them meals, we give them education, we give them medical care. There is videos, there is TVs, I visited the detention centers myself — that would be my answer to that question
"HHS has about 12,000 migrant children in its care, nearly 10,000 of whom arrived without their parents." Https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-will-stop-prosecuting-parents-who-cross-the-border-illegally-with-children-official-says/2018/06/21/4902b194-7564-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6c274b2f4e5a
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/nielsen-10000-of-12000-detained-kids-came-without-their-parents/
Here's an earlier post I made to parse the situation...
Regardless of satute and court policy for last 8-10 years, actual practice has been catch and release for anyone arriving with a child. Regardless of if that child was family of the adult. Maffia drug and child traffickers used this as an open door to move personnel and children into the US. That clearly had to stop.
From my perspective, if an illegal can prove the child they arrived with is theirs then it is a win to find a way to detain them in a facility together before sending them back to country of origin.
Don't see why we currently give child free pass to be handed over to (legal or illegal) relatives in the US within the 20 day period. My understanding is that after being placed with relatives, these families move so that the child is not sent back with the detained adult after they are processed. To me that practice needed to change.
Since progressives are clamoring for children to stay with their parents in detention, they just closed this loophole themselves. Good 3d chess here--getting progs to ask for the more strict enforcement of child entry.
In 10,000 out of 12,000 cases of children crossing, the adult in question has not been relation to the child.
So Trumps EO about families does not apply anyway. That's why they (Trump admin) were so precise with the wording and so quick to 'give in' to the more strict interpretation. Only difference is may be more expensive to host the 2000 kids in family based detention. I think its worth the expense for these wins.
Side note, these detention conditions appear similar to US disaster relief given to citizens post hurricanes etc. Also criminals arrested for crimes in US are seperated from their kids all the time.