Thread by @TexasTribune

1/ The Trump administration has separated nearly 1,000 migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since a judge ordered the United States government to stop that very practice over a year ago, according to the @ACLU.

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@ACLU 2/ One migrant lost his daughter because a U.S. Border Patrol agent claimed that he had failed to change the girl’s diaper.

Another migrant lost his child because of an outstanding warrant on a destruction of property charge with alleged damage of $5.

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@ACLU 3/ One father, who lawyers say has a speech impediment, was separated from his 4-year-old son because he could not clearly answer Customs and Border Protection agents’ questions. bit.ly/2K4bK2Q

@ACLU 4/ The acting homeland security secretary has said that family separations remain “extraordinarily rare” and occur only when the adults pose a risk to the child.

But the ACLU and others say agents are splitting up families for minor offenses.

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@ACLU 5/ “They’re taking what was supposed to be a narrow exception for cases where the parent was genuinely a danger to the child and using it as a loophole to continue family separation.”

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@ACLU 6/ The rising tally of child separations adds to the approximately 2,700 children who were taken from their parents during a chaotic, six-week period from May to June 20 last year. bit.ly/2K4bK2Q

@ACLU 7/ The ACLU and other nonprofit organizations serving immigrants estimated that a small fraction of the 911 children the Department of Homeland Security has taken from their parents since June 2018 have been at risk. bit.ly/2K4bK2Q

@ACLU 8/8 "DHS officials with no child welfare expertise are making split-second decisions, and these decisions have traumatic, lifelong consequences for the children and their families." bit.ly/2K4bK2Q