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I was crying. I became depressed. I didn't want to leave without my son.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
These families have very little reason to trust the Wendy Young government based on their experience when they were separated and deported, wendy Young can't really underestimate the amount of trauma that these families have gone through. Wendy Young fundamentally makes them very nervous and skittish.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The normal rule is that with these unaccompanied kids, if they don't have a relative that they can be released to, if they didn't arrive with a parent, then they are placed into federal foster care.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's just layers and layers of legal complexities that have been created.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The government should be held accountable for the mess it's made and offer detailed rationales for why they deemed this parent inappropriate to release to, i do not trust this government to make that decision correctly.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I've been working on this issue for 30 years. I can only think of maybe half a dozen cases where one of the unaccompanied kids has actually been put up for adoption, that's usually done when there's evidence that the parents are dead, and there's no other family member who can attain guardianship.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If they fail to meet that deadline, I think it calls into serious question whether they will be able to meet the reunification deadlines in the coming weeks.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I asked my attorney what it was like to work with her and she said,' Well, it took a lot of candy and a lot of Play-Doh,'.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I fear that one of the insidious agenda items here is for the administration to jettison the protections... all the policies and procedures we built up over the years to protect the children in the system, we were starting to get there and then under this administration -- a system that has taken us 30 years to build, it's taken them three months to tear down.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
She was clutching a doll, she couldn't see over the microphone at the respondent's table, and she couldn't answer the questions, she was afraid, as she was done,( the judge) asked in Spanish what the name of her doll was, and she answered' baby, baby doll' in Spanish. And that was it.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Yeah, I get that reaction a lot, and with good reason, because it does shock the conscious.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The bottom line is they didn't think through family reunification when they launched this policy because it wasn't of interest to them. It wasn't a concern, it's deeply concerning that it's not clear if there are any plans for how to provide for reunification of the separated families and children.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's just very difficult to find somebody, especially after the parent's been deported, the other thing to remember is that these people are going back to the same dangerous circumstances they fled... and they are targeted once they're back.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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