We out here in the public now have 10 days of data (over 14 days) about the unaccompanied child situation in CBP and HHS/ORR custody. Here are some charts.
1. Declining: Non-Mexican Unaccompanied Children Newly
Apprehended and Placed in CBP Custody
2. Declining: Children in CBP Custody
3. Increasing: Children Transferred Out of CBP Custody
4. Increasing: Children in HHS/ORR Custody
5. Unchanged: Children Discharged from HHS Custody
Source docs for all of the above
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What happened at Fort Bragg yesterday is very grave.
Boos and catcalls from uniformed Army personnel responding to Trump's goading have almost no precedent in US history and would be unusual in most of Latin America. (1/9)
Listen to the troops boo the free press as Trump calls reporters “the fake news.” (2/9)
Listen to the soldiers booing former president Joe Biden. (3/9)
During Donald Trump’s term, 90+% of migrants were from Mexico and Central America (blue, green, brown, yellow). If you were a migrant from those countries, your probability of being released into the US after apprehension didn’t change much after Biden’s inauguration. 2/15
(An exception is unaccompanied children from Central America: Biden stopped Trump’s practice of expelling them, alone, back into their countries regardless of protection needs. The moral argument for doing that is self-evident, and it didn’t move the needle much overall.) 3/15
Tim Walz, not a foreign policy guy, didn't have a deep record on Latin America as a member of Congress. But he voted against the #Colombia and #Peru free trade agreements, and co-sponsored a 2009 resolution condemning the coup in #Honduras.
It's so perplexing that people are convinced that Title 42 slowed migration, and that its lifting will be a major change.
Here's what happened to single-adult migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border after Title 42 went into effect.
Title 42 did not similarly increase child and family migration over what came before. But it didn't reduce it, either.
The 4 countries whose citizens could be expelled across the land border into Mexico? Title 42 slowed growth in their migration, though it remained high. But citizens of all other countries surpassed them since last summer.
The General posted this charming tweet, a video of slithering snakes, the day after #Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal concluded that the military killed 6,402 civilians between 2002-2008. Those denouncing “false positives,” you see, were reptiles.
So next time you hear @lopezobrador_ go on about #Mexico's sovereignty and US imperialism, recall that his government has invited US agents into Mexico's international airports to screen passengers.
This part 1/2:
"The curious thing is that, alongside the INM agents was another official, of US origin, dressed in civilian clothes, who also reviewed documents, asked questions, and checked travelers' cell phones: their WhatsApp, their Facebook profiles, their photo albums."