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21 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
This is, again, another lie. The story by @jacobsoboroff @JuliaEAinsley says they can’t find those parents, in part because the govnt declined to release that info earlier & the administration’s own non existing tracking systems. This tracks with three years of reporting by many
No one even had a contact for this dad, whose 18 month old was taken from him, until his lawyer got involved, knowing he’d be deported back to rural Guatemala without a phone.
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
.@itscaitlinhd also explains this today:
nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/…
‘The administration fought for months against providing documentation on the families, arguing that the children had already been released from federal custody into the care of sponsors. The parents of the children had already been deported without them’
nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/…
As with everything, COVID plus the passage of time due to the Trump administration made these efforts to find parents in dangerous countries even more difficult, as @KQED reported last month: kqed.org/news/11831289/…

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4 Aug
For months, lawyers searched for thousands of migrant kids expelled under a US order against COVID. They found three dozen. Kids vanish into a secretive system, not issued a main tracking number for migrants. They’re quickly returned-'no one can find them'
propublica.org/article/her-ra…
Detaining children in clandestine hotels is an 'integral component' of the expulsions, a lawyer noted. It was first reported by the formidable @NomaanMerchant who found + 169 children had been held, some for weeks, in @HiltonHotels. That has grown to +240
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An 8-month-old was held in a Hampton Inn for 12 days before being expelled -without a hearing or access to lawyers-along with a 9-year-old sibling. ‘The government is playing cowboy with regards to children’s safety,’ a former ICE official said.
propublica.org/article/her-ra…
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20 May
A great story by @itscaitlinhd about how the government appears to be using the guise of covid to expel not only more than 900 children on their own at the southern border, but also rush through deportations of children already here, often to no one.
nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/…
.@itscaitlinhd and @shearm also had a very important story about how the Trump administration has used an obscure law designed to protect the nation from diseases overseas as a way to tighten the borders.
nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/…
.@mollymotoole has been relentless on this issue, along with @theCindyCarcamo, publishing this story last week latimes.com/politics/story…
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12 Nov 19
What do #Texas drivers licenses & @thebeatles John Lennon have to do with the #DACA case before @Scotus? In 2012 Obama approved the DACA regulation giving 'deferred action' to certain young immigrants who came here illegally as children, so they could work & wouldn't be deported
In 2015, Obama tried to extend that to the parents of American children in what it called DAPA, but Texas' then AG @GregAbbott_TX sued to stop. The state argued it incurred damage in the cost of having to give driver's licenses to all these immigrants.
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
The Obama admin argued it was simply using decades of govnt authority to decide who to deport -- a concept called deferred action that was first publicized when it was used to save John Lennon from deportation because he'd had weed in London. (US was mad)
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
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12 Aug 19
It's often not possible to have a close relationship with the photographer reporters work with, but when it is, it yields better work. In April @MarieDennise & I profiled this cross-border El Paso family & little Memo's baseball team in Ciudad Juarez.
@MarieDennise The Garcias are bi-national, bi-cultural, bilingual, and they ferry their kids to sports across El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. tinyurl.com/yypg9bah
@MarieDennise We spent two days with them as they talked about how President Trump's threat of shuttering the border has impacted their lives.
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9 Aug 19
In April, @MarieDennise & I met a beautiful El Paso family that illustrated the city's cross-border identity. (tinyurl.com/y4zcervf) This week we were back reporting on the #elpasoshooting & were horrified to hear they were among the first victims.
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
They were raising money outside the Walmart for their 10-year-old daughter Karina’s soccer team, selling the traditional Mexican snacks of chicharrónes and aguas frescas when the gunman started firing.
The victims from the fundraiser were quintessential El Pasoans: Hispanic and bilingual with deep roots in Texas and Mexico. Their lives revolve around their children’s baseball and soccer teams. Their lives spanned the border.
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2 Aug 19
Reminder on 2 points: yes, most convicted of 1325 get time served in judicial process costing taxpayers what a US District Judge called 'mind-boggling, neither meritorious nor reasonable' & clog up as much as 80 % of TX border courts before landing in ICE
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
The government can only prosecute a small % of illegal border-crossers anyway, it simply doesn't have the capacity. But families weren't only separated under zero tolerance because of 1325: houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
And though some families are still being separated now because of 1325, the vast majority are being separated because of broad gang and criminal allegations and often without little shared proof: houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
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