Thread by @TexasTribune

1/ Family separations aren't over.

As many as five kids per day are separated from their parents at the border.

bit.ly/2JuwIra

2/ Almost 400 children were separated from their parents between June 2018 and March 2019.

That number jumped to more than 700 children by May 2019. bit.ly/2JuwIra

3/ “It’s really catastrophic for the individual, not just in terms of their emotional and physical well-being but also their ability to access the legal process.” bit.ly/2JuwIra

4/ Advocates say adult migrants continue to be separated from children for reasons that are increasingly vague and difficult to corroborate. bit.ly/2JuwIra

5/ @ProPublica reported, for instance, that officials are relying on databases run by foreign police and militaries to check whether migrants crossing the United States border have gang affiliations. bit.ly/2JKtHCi

6/ Lawyers and advocates say agents are relying on minor crimes, flimsy evidence and unverified allegations of gang affiliation to justify the continued separations of parents and children. bit.ly/2JuwIra

7/ Meanwhile, more than a year after a federal judge ordered the federal government to halt family separations and reunite those migrant children with their parents, 30 children remain in federal shelters. bit.ly/2Y5SR7l

8/8 A House oversight committee report says the government agency overseeing shelters that house migrant children sent it information about 17 of those children.

The parents of at least 10 of those children were deported. bit.ly/2Y5SR7l