Thread by @lomikriel

ICYMI:

“We don’t know exactly how many children were separated and there’s no question (the government’s) complete lack of tracking makes it complicated and is outrageous, irresponsible, and frankly, criminally negligent.”

houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… via @houstonchron

The government maintained it had no choice but to separate parents and children because the adults were charged with a crime and kids aren’t allowed in prison.
The logic never made much sense because most parents got time served so could immediately have been reunited.

But in Caal’s case, and untold other indigenous parents, she never was charged with a crime, perhaps because of her language ability.
So there appeared no reason to separate them at all.

But then the government would have had to release them together, or detain them together & release them after 3 weeks per Flores. It once again undercuts the administration’s argument that this was not about family separation to deport parents faster, but about enforcing the law

Stunning photos of Sara's reunion with her 5-year-old daughter after @CBP separated them at the TX border last May. They are one of possibly “thousands” more family separations that occurred before a judge's June 26 order forcing reunification. Photo: @MarieDennise