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25 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
While here in El Paso, @VP is meeting with Border Patrol’s Gloria Chavez, who was a key figure in Trump admin’s family separations. Emails show CBP leadership asked her for answers on 2017 pilot program and that she sparred with HHS about how to care for separated kids in 2018.
Chavez is currently the Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector.
From my book — here’s more on Chavez being asked about family separations in El Paso on November 18, 2017.
Even after Kevin McAleenan assured HHS separations would end in late 2017, Chavez admitted to an Office of Refugee Resettlement official that Trump was still looking to expand them.
Chavez advocated a reduction in bed space at HHS during the lead up to the wide-scale separation policy, enraging Commander Jonathan White at HHS.

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24 Jun
24 more families deliberately separated at the border by the Trump administration were reunited by Biden administration and NGO partners last week.

As many as 2,100 remain separated, admin said earlier this month.
Here’s the statement, from task force ED @MichelleBrane.
37 separated families total have been reunited so far by the Biden admin and NGO partners, @MichelleBrane says.
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18 Jun
TONIGHT: New episode of “Street Level U.S.A.” airs at 9PM ET on @TheChoice on @peacockTV. We report on the ground (and from a bridge, boat, EV and more) about the Biden infrastructure proposal, who would benefit and who might get left behind. Also airs Sunday 10PM ET on @MSNBC.
We previewed tonight’s show this morning on @3rdHourTODAY, sharing the story of the new 6th Street Viaduct in Los Angeles, and how some worry about the bridge’s impact on the Boyle Heights community.
Hope you’ll join us tonight on @peacockTV and Sunday night on @MSNBC.
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9 Jun
NEW: 2,100 families separated by Trump admin haven’t been reunited, according to Biden admin. Hundreds haven’t been located. We joined nonprofit @SenecaFOA on their cross-country search as they went door-door-door to find them and offer mental healthcare.
Read more about the road trip here. nbcnews.com/news/latino/ou…
Here’s the backstory on how the Trump admin tried to stop these mental health services from being offered in the first place. nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1…
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8 Jun
NEW: More than 2,100 children separated by Trump admin 'have not yet been reunified,' Biden task force says. Only seven children have rejoined their families since Biden took office earlier this year, and 29 more will "in the coming weeks," per report. nbcnews.com/news/all/more-…
A senior DHS official, in a call with reporters, blamed “numerous errors and misinformation” in data kept by the Trump administration for the cumbersome reunification process. “No comprehensive interagency system was in place to separate parents and their migrant children."
“Would we have liked them to move quicker? Yes. Do they need to move at a much more rapid pace? Absolutely,” said @leegelernt of the ACLU. “Could it have been done with a snap of the fingers? No. It is complex.”
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2 Jun
I am on assignment and somehow I only brought one sneaker.
My wife claims there is no single sneaker at our house, so the mystery deepens…
Sad!
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24 May
NEW: @DHSOIG says Trump administration "removed at least 348 parents separated from their children without documenting that those parents wanted to leave" kids behind in U.S. and some records didn't say if ICE first "gave the parent the option to reunify." oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
H/T to @Haleaziz who is going through the report here:
"In some cases, ICE removed separated parents without their children even though ICE officers effecting their removal knew the parents wanted to bring their children with them." (Page 10)
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