Trump’s family-separation mess gets even uglier as the government says 460 parents may already be gone
The administration told a court that more than 460 migrant parents separated at the border may have already been deported without their children. That deepens the family-separation scandal from a policy outrage into an operational nightmare, because reunification gets much harder once parents are removed from the country. The filing also underscored how poorly the government tracked the damage from its own zero-tolerance crackdown.
First recorded Jul 24, 2018·Meaningfully updated Jul 24, 2018
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Trump’s family-separation mess gets even uglier as the government says 460 parents may already be gone
The administration told a court that more than 460 migrant parents separated at the border may have already been deported without their children. That deepens the family-separation scandal from a policy outrage into an operational nightmare, because reunification gets much harder once parents are removed from the country. The filing also underscored how poorly the government tracked the damage from its own zero-tolerance crackdown.
The administration told a court that more than 460 migrant parents separated at the border may have already been deported without their children. That deepens the family-separation scandal from a policy outrage into an operational nightmare, because reunification gets much harder once parents are removed from the country. The filing also underscored how poorly the government tracked the damage from its own zero-tole…
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