Miles Taylor was a critical part of the team that decided to separated thousands of migrant kids from their parents, resulting in lifelong psychological trauma. He would like you to believe otherwise.
This is the way Miles Taylor talked about family separation LAST WEEK ("It's horrible. But...") when news broke parents of 545 separated kids still cannot be located. He later deleted the tweet.
“On multiple occasions I sat within inches of Miles Taylor during meetings solely focused on zero tolerance policy, and he was neither silent nor vocally opposed to the weighty decisions before us.”
I was one of the reporters Trump said he "brought" to see family separations. He, and he alone, systematically separated thousands of children -- "torture" per @P4HR and "government sanctioned child abuse" per @AmerAcadPeds after they were warned it would damage kids for life.
Read more about the 545 parents the Trump administration separated which *as of this week* it still cannot find, years later.nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Trump never answered @kwelkernbc's question about how he'll reunite them because he doesn't have a plan. Worse, right now they couldn't if they wanted to. They cannot be reached, because their record keeping was so shoddy.
Wrong, Chase. I literally talked to one of those families on Monday — 8 year old in CA (taken from his dad when he was 6) and father in Honduras trying to reunite — and will have audio of that interview on @NicolleDWallace’s show momentarily.
It cannot be possible @SpoxDHS is unaware there’s a status hearing tomorrow in the family separation case and the Trump admin and the ACLU are planning on discussing reunifications of still-separated families, can it? Who wrote this statement?
"People ask when we will find all of these families and, sadly, I can’t give an answer... will not stop looking until we have found every one... tragic reality is that hundreds of parents were deported to Central America without their children, who remain here,” said @leegelernt.
Most of these parents, if ever found, will face insurmountable hurdles to reunification with their children in the United States.
NEW: President Trump has failed to deport “millions,” as promised. Local cops have all but made that impossible by refusing to cooperate with him. Instead he’s resorted to show-of-force ICE raids immigration activists say are tactics used to terrorize.
An ICE spokesman told me Trump's inability to deport more people than Obama is due in part to local law enforcement refusing to work with ICE, like here in L.A.
"The majority of [deportations] come from cooperation with state and local law enforcement partners," he said.
This is the place inside L.A. County Jail where ICE used to take into custody inmates who had finished serving their time -- including those whose charges were dismissed or committed minor offenses. @LACoSheriff kicked them out.