Thread by @blmohr

1/ Trump's Genocide
@realDonaldTrump

"The Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy: Trauma, Destruction, and Chaos"
Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives
October 2020
judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…

2/ "Within weeks of taking office, Trump announced several executive orders and policy initiatives to severely limit immigration to the United States."

3/ "Unbeknownst to HHS, CBP had been conducting a family separation pilot in the El Paso Border Patrol Sector that led to hundreds of separations."

4/ "An internal March 5, 2018 HHS email indicating that as of March 2, 2018, at least 625 children had been separated from their parents, more than one third of whom were under the age of eight."

5/ "Of the 856 children, 26% were under the age of five."

6/ "Multiple emails between HHS and ICE during the summer of 2018 confirming that the Trump Admin had no plan to reunify separated parents with their children."

7/ "No, we do not have any linkages from parents to UACs...we have a list of parent alien numbers but no way to link them to children.”