TheCount
06-22-2018, 01:27 AM
First Lady Melania Trump paid a visit to McAllen, Texas, on Thursday to make an “unannounced (https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1009837659328573441?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcam p%5Enews%7Ctwgr%5Etweet)” visit to the migrant children detained at Upbring New Hope Children’s Center.In a short speech, the first lady thanked staff (https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/politics/melania-trump-border-visit-immigration/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-06-21T16%3A22%3A50&utm_term=image)for their “compassion and ... kindness.”
Her obvious damage control efforts came as the Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-will-stop-prosecuting-parents-who-cross-the-border-illegally-with-children-official-says/2018/06/21/4902b194-7564-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.e1bdff0bbc5d) that the U.S. Border Patrol no longer will follow the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of bringing federal criminal charges against all migrant parents caught illegally crossing the border with their children. If true, this would be a major departure from Wednesday’s executive order, which decreed that instead of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents, kids instead would be detained alongside them (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-trump-ends-family-separations-by-1529526171-htmlstory.html).
The first lady’s visit came after an additional report alleging that many of the detention centers where migrant children are being sent have sordid histories of physical and sexual abuse (https://www.revealnews.org/article/migrant-children-sent-to-shelters-with-histories-of-abuse-allegations/). One particularly disturbing case alleges that the mother of a young Guatemalan boy was sent the hospital bill for her son’s sexual assault inside a New York migrant shelter. She claims to have been told only that there had been “an incident with a boy.”
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-crisis-actor-spotted-at-texas-child-1529602093-htmlstory.html
Her obvious damage control efforts came as the Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-will-stop-prosecuting-parents-who-cross-the-border-illegally-with-children-official-says/2018/06/21/4902b194-7564-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.e1bdff0bbc5d) that the U.S. Border Patrol no longer will follow the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of bringing federal criminal charges against all migrant parents caught illegally crossing the border with their children. If true, this would be a major departure from Wednesday’s executive order, which decreed that instead of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents, kids instead would be detained alongside them (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-trump-ends-family-separations-by-1529526171-htmlstory.html).
The first lady’s visit came after an additional report alleging that many of the detention centers where migrant children are being sent have sordid histories of physical and sexual abuse (https://www.revealnews.org/article/migrant-children-sent-to-shelters-with-histories-of-abuse-allegations/). One particularly disturbing case alleges that the mother of a young Guatemalan boy was sent the hospital bill for her son’s sexual assault inside a New York migrant shelter. She claims to have been told only that there had been “an incident with a boy.”
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-crisis-actor-spotted-at-texas-child-1529602093-htmlstory.html