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THREAD: Here are just some of the things wrong with @SecNielsen testimony today on family separation.
1. Contrary to her testimony, Children WERE taken away even when parent sought asylum legally.
1. Contrary to her testimony, Children WERE taken away even when parent sought asylum legally.
@SecNielsen 2. Secretary Nielsen cites 2,000 separated children, but our case documented 2,800 kids taken away. Now an internal report says there may be thousands more on top of the 2800.
@SecNielsen 3. Unbelievably, Sec. Nielsen compared our government ripping little kids away from parents to cases where a parent makes the agonizing choice to send a teenager to the US to escape violence.
@SecNielsen 4. Sec. Nielsen said whenever a parent goes to jail for any crime they are separated from kids. Here’s the difference: when a parent is released, the government doesn’t just keep their child for months on end for no reason. That’s exactly what happened to our clients.
@SecNielsen 5. Finally, there WAS family separation policy and practice. It DID cause toxic stress and irreparable damage to these children, some of whom were just babies.
