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19 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
One of the many experiences I will specifically remember from @katierosemiller is when she told me the US was not separating kids under 5 and I then came to her with this story of an 18 month old separated during the pilot the US denied : houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
I circled back later with this story about a mom who had been separated from her breast feeding infant: chron.com/news/houston-t…
She denied @itscaitlinhd 's groundbreaking reporting and called her a fake news journalist: nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/…
Much of what you need to know is cited in the recent Inspector General report for the Justice Department, which cites and confirms my reporting from 2017 and Caitlin's and shows again how top levels were aware: oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…
In 2017 concerns were raised about this pilot citing my reporting: houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

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2 Nov 20
This is Blanca. She was one of hundred of parents separated from their children in a secretive 2017 El Paso pilot, in which the government threatened to prosecute parents who tried to fight back for human smuggling (1)
I wrote about Blanca’s case in 2017 and she seemed like a textbook case for asylum. After my story, @aldea_pjc
managed to get her reunited with her kid, but the other parents in her case were deported without their children. Now, they can’t be found (2)
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
Her case was the first public account of family separation. 'Although the Defendants are only currently charged with the misdemeanor offense of illegal entry, their admitted conduct satisfies the elements of the felony offense of alien smuggling.' (3)
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21 Oct 20
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/…
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4 Aug 20
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
apnews.com/c9b671b206060f…
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 20
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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