11,432 children are currently being held in U.S. custody.
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Read: wapo.st/2MCKnMn
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More then 100 of those children are under 4.
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There is no such law.
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"The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable."
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Read the American Psychological Association’s open letter to President Trump: bit.ly/2ylUgeo
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That’s what the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics told @CNN about her visit to an immigration detention facility, where toddlers are being kept from their parents.
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— Senator Kamala Harris just asked Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen to resign.
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Hillary Clinton called out the Trump administration’s claims that family separations at the border are mandated by law: "Every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged."
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"Intentionally separating children from their families is cruel and un-American."
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(via @ProPublica)
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