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"Children separated from parents at US border held in cages in Texas warehouse".

telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/1…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urges Trump to end policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border, describing it as "unconscionable” that any country would seek to control immigration by “inflicting such abuse on children".

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: People do not lose their human rights by virtue of crossing a border without a visa. I deplore adoption by many countries of policies intended to make themselves as inhospitable as possible by increasing the suffering of vulnerable people.
"Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to end family separations at the border. Trump said in the cabinet room: “We’re going to be signing an executive order in a little while. We’ve got to be keeping families together".

theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…
Great news, of course. Even if the children traumatised by it may well never completely recover from it. I hope they sue Trump and win.

But how is Trump ending separations, when his administration has been saying that there are no separations?

Trump’s plan to stop separating immigrant children from their families is simple: lock up immigrant parents and their children together, indefinitely. But this probably breaches a 2015 court ruling that limits immigration detention of a child to 20 days.

huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-re…
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Court of Appeal rules @ukhomeoffice acted "unlawfully and unfairly" when deciding claims by child refugees in Calais. Court also held the Govt misled the High Court by a "serious breach of the duty of candour and co-operation by the Secretary of State".

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Great work by @safepassageuk, @CitizensUK, @IslingtonLawCen's @MigrantsLawProj and @DoughtyStPublic's @michelleknorr & Charlotte Kilroy!

Shameful behaviour by the Government - firstly, mistreating refugee minors & then misleading the High Court about how it had behaved and why.
So @ukhomeoffice admitted it refused to give the refugee children reasons why their claims were refused just so they could not take legal action against the Home Office.

As the court says, that is exactly why reasons must be given - so legal action can be taken, where needed!
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In today's @DailyMailUK. @IpsoNews rules that the front page article with the headline "Another Human Rights Fiasco" had "serious and significant" errors. It was inaccurate and breached the Editor's Code. Mail forced to publish this ruling, with a reference on today's front page.
"The breach was serious and led to publication of seriously misleading information on an important subject. The misleading information was in a prominent position both in the article and in newspaper as a whole, and it substantially changed the meaning of the article": @IpsoNews
So @DailyMailUK's front page included the claim that he was an insurgent caught with a bomb. But didn't then say that a judge found that this allegation was "pure fiction". @IpsoNews found "the repetition of these serious allegations ... seriously misrepresented the judgment".
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Just got round to reading Shaw II on immigration detention now. Some tweets later.

"Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on welfare in [immigration] detention of vulnerable persons - a follow-up report by Stephen Shaw" is online at gov.uk/government/pub…
"My point is that, at present, the case for a time limit [for immigration detention] has been articulated more as a slogan than as a fully developed policy proposal": Stephen Shaw.

I have a feeling many migrant/detainee rights campaigners would disagree with this...
"Nevertheless, the number of people held for over six months has actually increased. The time that many people spend in immigration detention remains deeply troubling": Stephen Shaw
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For the last 24 hours I've been texting & calling with refugees in Libya. 500 are apparently stuck in a Tripoli prison w/o food & water after heavy fighting broke out two days ago. They say their guards ran away, leaving them alone.
These refugees are men, women & children. They tried to cross the Mediterranean earlier this year, but were found by Italian boats, who turned them over to the EU-backed Libyan coastguard, who put them in prison. The conditions were already terrible before the fighting started.
Oh the phone earlier I could hear children crying & what sounded like bombing in the distance. The refugees say everyone's incredibly frightened. "We hear machine guns, tanks, big bombs, last night from the roof it was all fire."
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What the fuck just happened today?

⚡️ Day 515: Not on my watch.

whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/06/18/day…
1/ Hundreds of children separated from their parents are waiting inside cages in an old warehouse in south Texas

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2/ Lawmakers from both parties demanded that Trump stop his policy of separating children from their parents at the border

nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/…
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Inside America's largest immigration processing center:

Detainees are sorted based on age, gender, and family status into what the US Border Patrol called four pods. nbcnews.to/2JM4GJC
UN high commissioner for human rights on new US border policy:

“I am deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions … The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable.”
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