A Customs and Border Protection official told lawmakers at a recent hearing that 658 children were separated from 638 adults in two weeks between May 6 and May 19. It's unclear exactly how many families have been separated since the new policy has been implemented. One migrant father even took his own life at a Texas jail last month, after suffering a breakdown when Border Patrol agents separated him from his wife and three-year-old son, The Washington Post reported. Other stories have surfaced about frightened, traumatized children placed in foster care with little contact with their parents - one foster mother described to The New York Times a five-year-old boy who clung to stick-figure drawings of his family. The parents described to the lawyers their horror as they realized hours later that their children weren't coming back. Lawyers who work with the migrants have told news outlets that immigration authorities have separated children from their parents under the guise of taking them to go bathe. A number of similar reports have circulated throughout the national media in recent weeks, many of them attracting public backlash.
The woman's separation from her daughter is just the latest story to emerge after the Trump administration began implementing its new border policy. They also said they couldn't find any records or documentation that the woman's infant had been taken from her while breastfeeding, but it's unclear if authorities would be required to include such details in their documents.
The officials, however, were unable to clarify for reporters at what age children can be separated from their parents. It often indicates a user profile.īut officials from the Department of Homeland Security on Friday denied to reporters that a mother was ripped from her infant while nursing, saying "We do not separate breastfeeding children from their parents.
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