If you have any doubt that the Trump administration could soon be facing a humanitarian crisis with children of immigrants, please note this. The Associated Press has found that nearly 2000 children have been separated from their parents since Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance crackdown began. The AP obtained records from the Department of Homeland Security:
- The figures show that 1,995 minors were separated from 1,940 adults from April 19 through May 31. The separations were not broken down by age, and included separations for illegal entry, immigration violations or possible criminal conduct by the adult.
Two thousand kids in six weeks! It doesn’t take a math whiz to determine that number could soar like the Texas heat, and fast. DHS is already running out of housing. A tent city is planned for more kids near El Paso, Texas.
It was pointed out to me that temperatures are already in the triple-digits in Tornillo, Texas — where the Trump administration will build its first tent city for migrant kids.
Here’s our exclusive @NBCNews report — with @ckubeNBC and @JuliaEAinsley. https://t.co/0kqNXcBqH7
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) June 14, 2018
And guess who benefits from building new housing? Defense contractors are about to, as the Daily Beast reports, cash in on the immigrant crisis.
Defense contractors are making millions of dollars off of the detention of immigrant children, according to a Daily Beast report. https://t.co/gdOqnj03KN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 15, 2018
Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to lie about the reason for the children being detained. He blames policies he says were passed by Democrats when in fact he could end this separation policy today since his administration started it.
This is Orwellian stuff. WH claiming in this email that family separations are policy of congressional Democrats. It’s a Trump policy announced by the administration and carried out by the administration. Not to mention GOP controls Congress. pic.twitter.com/5AduQAK9tj
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 15, 2018