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Here’s what Donald Trump isn’t tweeting about. Monday, October 22, marks 88 days since a federal judge’s reunification order, yet dozens of migrant children kidnapped from their parents at the border continue to remain under U.S. custody, according to recent numbers from the administration.
Of these 66 children, one is aged 5 or under. Of the 66 kids, the parents of 50 have already been deported. Trump officials have struggled to reunite kids with deported parents because of their own cruelty, after having torn apart families with no plan set in place on how to reunite them. Now, as 66 kids remain separated, Trump is floating officially reviving family separation as a midterms strategy to rile up his racist base.
This is Trump at his most immoral—and cowardly. Even if he doesn’t intend to introduce family separation 2.0, he at least wants the idea out there for the Stephen Millers of his base. What he doesn’t want to discuss are the actual faces and names, like Helen, the child separated from her family for 55 days. She’s only five, but apparently officials thought her old enough to be able to sign away her rights in a legal document.
“People shouldn’t forget that there’s families still going through this, that families still don’t have their children,” one of her advocates said in a new video. “It took 55 days for this child, with an advocacy organization that is very strong, with help from national groups … all of those children, maybe they don’t have that.”
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