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  Biden administration making a task force to reunite families, after being in the administration that bolstered the same organization that separated the kids is a joke lol
  I beg for Reddit to look at the bigger picture then just “trump bad, blue good”
context: The department pledged to continue the work until all separated families that can be found have the opportunity to reunite with their children. In 30 years from now we will be seeing documentaries about children who suffered permanent psychological damage at the hands of Trumps administration. People will be shocked to learn that the U.S. government focible took these peoples children and intentionally separated them to be cruel. >
  
  The people who supported it will pretend they never knew anything about it and act shocked and disgusted. >
  
  They already are claiming this did not happen or Obama did it or some other nonsense. Let me clear: Trump instituted a policy to forcibly separate children (including infants) from their legal asylum-seekng parents at the border. He did this to be cruel and scare people from coming. His minions then forgot to keep records of who the kids were. >
  
  I'd only argue with "forgot." They intentionally didn't keep records so as to make it as difficult as possible to reunite these families. The cruelty was the point. In fact, they outright declared that they were doing this to try to dissuade people from coming to America. "Try to seek asylum in America and we'll separate you from your kids who you'll never see again!" >
  
  "The laws are the laws" = dead giveaway for a fascist.  The law is there to serve the people.  If it's not serving them, it should be changed. >
  
  What really gives away the game is politicians supporting and pushing through laws that do not have majority public support - anti-marijuana and abortion come to mind. Also the use of propaganda to try to affect levels of support for certain things. >
  
  A piece of legislation is almost always guaranteed to fail if it polls extremely popular with Americans on all sides. It's really sad... >
  
  Yep, like “80% of Americans support this” and they’re uh… “oh but some discredited propaganda bullshit”. Really gives away who they are truly working for. >
  
  No, they'll have their "experts" testify that they're correct.  Then you find out the "expert" talking about MJ legalization is a LEO and the "expert" talking about abortion is a religious leader. >
  
  The people who did this belong on trail for crimes against humanity at the Hague.
  Actual consequences?  Fuckin' crickets as usual. >
  
  Reminder that under Bush the US granted itself permission to invade The Hague If an American citizen should ever be tried there. >
  
  We should send Bush to be tried there. >
  
  Trump and his henchmen should be charged for these crimes.  Of all of Trump's crimes, I think the concentration camps for immigrants and separating immigrants from their children were among the worst.  We have to punish them or this will happen again next time they have the presidency. >
  
  America doesn't punish Republican crimes.
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  Source: Jan 6th >
  
  The list of sources is very long. >
  
  It starts at least with the Watergate. GWB never answered to war crimes or to lying to start a war. And Trump pardon the only person charged in the Valery Plane affair. >
  
  Didn't Nixon interfere with the peace process in Vietnam, extending the war so his opponent wouldn't get a win right before the election? >
  
  Yep. >
  
  Stephen Miller should be in a 6 x 9 >
  
  Are there any cells smaller than that for that pea brained asshat? >
  
  There’s a box >
  
  If it fits it sits >
  
  This program of separating parents from their children without documentation is going to be remembered in the same way we talk about the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Except that was the 1930s.
  One of these days some of those kids are going to take their pound of flesh out of the United States either legally or violently, and they'll have right on their side. >
  
  nah, the fascists will have rewritten history in the US by then.  Our kids will never learn about any of it unless we move. >
  
  President Ron Desantis III will remove it from the national curriculum. >
  
  Probably in a governor position he would still have that power >
  
  Never forget this was a crime against humanity. Conservatives supported it. Even your so called “moderate conservative friends”
  If it had been your kid they wouldn’t give a fuck.
  In 20 years people will call it a stain on our nation. But the sociopaths who enabled it are here right now. >
  
  The sociopaths who enabled it are in a very good position to seize absolute control of our country, too. >
  
  Don’t forget that it’s the trump supporters that empowered the sociopaths. >
  
  It boggles my mind how there isn't a bigger deal made of this. They stole kids from their parents. Any time it pops into my head, I'm infuriated. In a just world, Trump and his administration would be harshly punished. >
  
  Seriously. It is crime against HUMANITY >
  
  DOJ should throw kidnapping charges onto the pile of Trump crimes. >
  
  Kidnapped. That's called kidnapping. >
  
  Abduction, human trafficking, genocide.
  Take your pick. >
  
  This needs to be made into a drama doc, like the recent Jeffrey Dahmer series. I guarantee it would make a compelling story, and if done right, it would reach even strong trump supporters just by virtue of it's entertainment value.  
  This whole debacle was one of the cruelest things the US has done in decades, and it was done with Glee by a mentally unstable maniac and his supporters. The sooner we see it through the lens of history and regret, the better >
  
  We better hurry before the republicans ban all history. >
  
  This is only happening because trump never had a plan to reunite the families.
  For those in the back. He ripped apart families with NO INTENTION OF THEM EVER BEING REUNITED. >
  
  It's not even that. In order to create a situation like this, they had to have the intent to prevent the reuniting of families. >
  
  It pains me to think how great this nation could be if the government didnt have to spend time and resources fixing the things republican admins did >
  
  It's such an insane cycle. Conservatives fuck shit up, Dems finally get back in and spend the entire time fixing shit, conservatives run on "look, they didn't make anything better!", get back in to fuck shit up. Rinse and repeat. >
  
  Except Dems (if they actually focus on it) are usually only able to fix 70ish% of the budgetary and humanitarian issues that were cause by the previous administration. Then when they lose reelection we slip further backwards. >
  
  What do you mean if? >
  
  If they focus on repairing damage instead of squabbling with each other (which happens a lot). >
  
  As a Mexican immigrant I really appreciate this >
  
  I just wish we had received the same support nationwide like BLM did. >
  
  Outraged Republicans demand to know why they were not sold to traffickers as they planned. >
  
  Think of all that could have been accomplished in the same time with the same effort if we didn't need them to focus on this. Every Democratic administration is hobbled by needing to undo the evils of the Republicans before them. And it doesn't go the other way because it only takes a second to wreck something, but it takes time to do things right. >
  
  Contrarily to what the aryicle stars, they were not crossing illegaly. They came as asylum seekers, which is legal. Many (all?) of them arrived at official points of entry. These are not people who were arrested crossing the river in the middle of the night (not that it would justify taking their kids in any way). >
  
  Of course the Republican subs are silent on this
  Fuck trump >
  
  giving them all citizenship and all of their families is the least we could do for what we've done to those kids >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 69%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  WASHINGTON - A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump's presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday.
  President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under the Trump administration's widely condemned practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.
  ADVERTISEMENT. The Trump administration separated thousands of migrant parents from their children as it moved to criminally prosecute people for illegally crossing the southwestern border.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: family^#1 separated^#2 children^#3 reunite^#4 force^#5 >
  
  They’ll still be traumatized for the rest of their lives. Drug addiction, depression, suicides will plague these children. If there were any justice, the architects of this policy should be charged with crimes against humanity. >
  
  Typical go to of Christian nationalists is to steal children. >
  
  I guess the conservatives are ok as long it isn't their child or children. >
  
  I want to remind everyone here that Trump's ICE not only separated countless children from their parents, they then "LOST" them.  Trafficked.  They trafficked them.  But they called them "lost".  Then, in an absolutely astounding act of evil and affirmation of cruelty, they released the numbers to the public: 1488 lost children.
  Yes.  That's right.  1488, the same number literal nazis hold sacred.
  The depth of evil and abuse and violence the right has descended to should be SO MUCH more alarming to more people.  In case you think the assertion that the children were trafficked is alarmist please remember when they caught ICE transporting children without paperwork in the dead of night or keeping children in hotels without due process then sending them back to mexico with no transition process so they were essentially homeless. >
  
  Wow. That is incredibly evil. >
  
  The GOP are the Nazis come again.  Time is a flat circle and most of the circle is fascism >
  
  Nearly 75 percent is better than I expected, and they're still working.  One small cause for optimism. >
  
  I wouldn't call it a small cause. This is pretty massive, actually following through with fixing this disgusting miscarriage of justice. I remember reading about this stuff happening and thinking that it would have to be a priority for a new administration. Glad it's being handled. >
  
  I remember reading this and thinking ‘holy fucking shit’, and my view on USA has not been the same since.
  The fact Trump still got 70+ million votes after mandating/ordering this policy is insane. >
  
  Trump voters tend to be low information. If they even heard about this, they heard someone on Fox/Newsmax/twitter defending it or saying it was fantastic while distorting the truth about it. >
  
  I’d like to think they were ignorant, but somehow it all adds up. I can’t let it go. >
  
  Not enough, but it’s a start. >
  
  Crimes against humanity. >
  
  Jesus Christ Trump was a disaster, we're just now returning the kids to their parents though?!? The damage we caused will never go away. >
  
  Over 2000 were returned during the Trump administration so these are part of the harder to find parents. >
  
  Something tells me this will not be on many news stations tonight. >
  
  Finally. This is why I voted in 2020 >
  
  I will be enraged until the headline reads ALL! >
  
  Unfortunately, that might never happen given that the Trump administration managed to lose track of a bunch of them. I wish I was making that up. >
  
  How about the DOJ criminally prosecute the architects and others who had a hand in this heinous crime? >
  
  
  According to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security, 3,881 children were separated from their families from 2017 to 2021. About 74% of those have been reunited with their families: 2,176 before the task force was created and 689 afterward.
  But that still leaves nearly 1,000 children. Of those, 148 are in the reunification process. The department pledged to continue the work until all separated families that can be found have the opportunity to reunite with their children.
  
  Ugh, close but not close enough to fixing this mistake. >
  
  Remember when the Trump administration claimed that it was impossible to reunite the families? >
  
  Why do we always have to clean up after Republicans? Getting tiresome. >
  
  Just a reminder that because the separation policy was specifically designed to deter certain kinds of people from seeking asylum, these kidnappings qualify as a crime against humanity under international law. >
  
  A whole bunch of them were trafficked to the upper Midwest to work the overnight shift on meat packing plant floors. It was only uncovered when one of their middle school teachers called CPS because these kids were coming in with severe chemical burns on their hands and arms. And, yes - after working the overnight shift cleaning a meat processing plant floor, these kids were going to school all day. The youngest was 12. >
  
  Oh no. Just appalling >
  
  Because it’s the right thing to do. Well done. Still going to be a long road toward healing for those poor kids. >
  
  I'm still stunned nobody has gone to jail for this and that the US public did not draw the line at this. It is sickening. >
  
  We don’t get credit for fixing our own fuckup >
  
  It is SHAMEFUL how these people were treated. >
  
  That is wonderful news.  Trump and his administration were so evil and cruel.  I can't imagine how anyone could be so heartless. >
  
  How many of these kids were molested by Trump supporters? Not zero. >
  
  It's crazy to think if Trump was still POTUS, these (and likely many more) kids would still be lost. >
  
  Not enough is made over the evil that Trump and Stephen Miller committed during this fiasco. 
  Objectively horrific, vile men. >
  
  Never forget there was one boy who died in his own vomit for hours before someone checked up on him. My blood still seethes thinking about it.
  His name was Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, he was 16 from Guatemala. >
  
  I'm very happy to read this. That said, the fact that this ever happened (and I don't care who it happens under) is disgusting and needs to be completely stopped from happening again. >
  
  This should be much bigger news >
  
  How many years were these kids without their parents in a government camp? >
  
  Close to four years. >
  
  Oh yea I forgot he did this, the absolute sicko >
  
  This is real oppressive fascist shit, my dear Americans. Except those who should hear this either won't read this or don't have a problem with it... >
  
  This probably puts SStephen Miller in the deepest of funks. >
  
  Genuinely good news and a step towards righting an intentionally monstrous act. >
  
  how many more are there?  how many were raped?  how many died? >
  
  It's good to see the nation moving closer to its founding principles. >
  
  If this is true, it’s the only news I heard today that I give a single fuck about. Wow. YES. Keep going. 100% reunification. >
  
  There are still missing children. >
  
  TrAnS pEoPlE aRe GrOoMiNg OuR cHiLdReN. No, there not, and your outrage would be more effective if it targeted the POS you voted for. >
  
  Trump reign of terror was so barbaric. >
  
  Thing is. .....Republicans are probably unhappy about this. >
  
  This definitely put a smile on my face! :) >
  
  US reunites nearly 700 kids taken from parents under ~~Trump~~ the republicans. >
  
  Somehow trump will take credit for this.  He'll say something like how much better he made those parents appreciate their children and the children their parents.  Ugh. >
  
  bold of you to assume he'll pay any attention at all to them. >
  
  How I fucking wish "Kids in cages" never became the misleading rallying cry against Trump when kidnapped children was the more accurate description of what the administration was doing that needed to be stopped immediately.
  How many times have you seen some galaxy brain talk about how "Oh nobody says 'kids in cages' anymore now that it's ok Biden is doing it!" Yeah it was a stupid and inaccurate criticism to begin with, because any kind of policy of detaining people caught trying to cross the border illegally will fit the "kids in cages" meme. 
  The entire reason people got mad at Trump beyond the border wall nonsense was because he specifically ordered a family separation policy that was designed to function as a cruel deterrent to immigration. The Obama administration was forced to adopt a family separation policy because courts ruled that minors could not be detained with adults when detained by ICE, but the Trump administration embraced this policy and added on kidnapping and forced separation across the country which resembled human trafficking more than any kind of immigration policy.
  And yeah, Biden is reuniting people while still maintaining a policy of not letting anyone cross the border anywhere at any time for any reason. We can talk about the ethics of detaining people caught trying to cross a national border illegally, and we should. But its an entirely separate discussion from whether one should steal their kids and ship them across the country and throw away the records of where they went. >
  
  Another horrifying legacy of the US. >
  
  Stephen Miller needs to be permanently attached to this heartless decision. >
  
  The damage has been done. It's literally the least we can do is give them their children back.. I can't even believe that sentence needed to be said. Fuck Trump. >
  
  Finally, someone thought of the children >
  
  Yet another crime that orange gasbag will never be punished for… >
  
  This chapter of Trump's presidency was truly mask off evil from the party that professes that they are the party of morals and family values. Before this people could argue that they could be afforded the benefit of the doubt. I kind of knew that Republicans were trolls and bad faith actors but then after this I knew that they really have no bottom line with how low they are willing to go. Truly evil what they did to those desperate families and kids when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to just not. >
  
  This is not the same war crime Russia is doing in the Ukraine.  It's a completely different war crime. >
  
  It's sad and despicable that this is even necessary. >
  
  This post has about 670 comments. Imagine if every single one of them was a family reunion. Heartbreaking cruelty from the last administration. >
  
  The Trimp administration did a lot terrible things and had plenty of awful, harmful policies. But this is one of those times when it crossed the line into literal evil. >
  
  I figured this was happening in the background but damn it's heartbreaking that it's taking this long because of how thoroughly Trump fucked up any semblance of process for the DHS
  Like don't get me wrong, anyone who works for ICE is and always has been a disgusting pig, but they used to be disgusting pigs bound by similar levels of US bureaucracy as the rest of the government >
  
  This was a very good thing to do and the media isn’t talking about it. >
  
  This needs to be bigger news >
  
  What the hell AP, it was the US under Trump too. Maybe a better headline might have been "Biden admin reunites nearly 700..." >
  
  Our bad, we did teach the kid to walk and talk, she mostly knows to say “put your hands through the bars” but still. >
  
  This is news I've been waiting 6 years for. >
  
  Was Eric one of them? >
  
  I will look for you, I will find you and I will reunite you >
  
  Like the motherfucking handmaids tale or some shit >
  
  It's nice for the country to be taking a step back towards its ideals. >
  
  Why the fuck is this not plastered all over the news? This was an international outrage for years and now it’s a tiny news story thrown in on a Friday? Whomever is in charge of the WH Press Office should be ashamed. >
  
  Not sure what the White House Press Office could do here if outlets simply don't bother pushing the story. >
  
  I want to know how many are still separated.
  Everything else is not good enough. >
  
  You will need to do a slight bit of math when reading the article to get the exact number but it as about a thousand  remaining to be united. >
  
  I feel for these kids (and their parents). Many of them have been sexually assaulted because no one was there to protect them. >
  
  Gee, Trump reminds me of Hitler for some reason. Does anyone else see a similarity? One redeeming factor is that we all know how Hitler ended up. >
  
  It is a great labor to undo great evils. 
  Glad it's being done. >
  
  How many in total were separated? 700 is great, but if there are still 1,000s more this should also be an equal amount of new coverage. >
  
  The exact counts are in the article if you want them. >
  
  It’s almost as if the articles were meant to be read. >
  
  It’s a good start >
  
  Is trump a Russian spy?
  A global traitor >
  
  When will the real criminals be put in jail? >
  
  very nice to see this happen and hopefully never happens again. >
  
  I pray the remaining children are with US family members. This was an impeachable criminal act by Trump >
  
  This was by far the most evil thing his administration did. >
  
  Now seperate Trump from his family. >
  
  I mean, damage done. If I was fleeing my home in terror from economic disaster, and the place I ran to stole my fucking kid from me, and I didn’t get them back for three years?…. I mean… that dude is a terrorist now. What is left in his life except to punish this country? >
  
  Lock him up >
  
  Some good news >
  
  This is not enough. >
  
  I was kidnapped and separated from one of my parents for a week when I was young. To be separated for such a long time… The shit is going to haunt those kids for the rest of their lives and they will likely hate those who put them through this. I know this firsthand just based how lost I felt in my experience. >
  
  Some good news. >
  
  Oh, well that's good news. >
  
  But I was told in 2016 that Democrats were the same as Republicans. >
  
  I know the mods have that thing about being courteous to others blah blah blah, but fuck trump... >
  
  Yes, but there are still an estimated 1,000 more that they can’t even find yet. Fuck Trump. >
  
  The headline shouldn't exist but half the country literally voted for this to happen. It's insane. Ashamed to be an American. >
  
  After the last child is reunited with family, Melania's "I don't really care do you" jacket will be displayed in the Smithsonian. >
  
  *Biden administration reunites 700 kids taken from parents under trump >
  
  Only 49,300 to go. >
  
  The Trump administration was monstrous. If there is such a thing as Karma this country has a lot to pay for… >
  
  I hope they use this to finally lock up Trump and his goons. This is disgusting and a stain on the US. >
  
  The right thing to do. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 69%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  WASHINGTON - A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump's presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday.
  President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under the Trump administration's widely condemned practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.
  ADVERTISEMENT. The Trump administration separated thousands of migrant parents from their children as it moved to criminally prosecute people for illegally crossing the southwestern border.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: family^#1 separated^#2 children^#3 reunite^#4 force^#5 >
  
  /r/Orphancrushingmachine >
  
  Why are the Republicans such pieces of shit?  The whole fucking Republican Party  needs to be done away with permanently. >
  
  Its still happening. Reuniting kids is great and all but if the same policies that separated them still exist it doesn't mean anything >
  
  belongs in /r/upliftingnews! >
  
  Honestly it baffles me why people see “horrendous injustice addressed after long delay” and say “/r/upliftingnews”. There’s nothing uplifting about this story, everyone should be enraged. >
  
  Everyone is enraged all the time about everything and then go to Reddit or Twitter to make comments which does nothing. >
  
  At least enraged people acknowledge the problem. Toxic positivity does less than that. >
  
  Good.  Shame on the previous terroristic administration for the separations in the first place. >
  
  But my dad won’t be talking about this. 
  Only that Biden keeps on sending money to Ukraine and his social security is going to run out. 
  It’s kind of funny at this point. >
  
  Remind him that his social security will run out, but you won’t get any because we don’t fucking tax the rich like we did before the 80s. >
  
  GOP, the party of family values >
  
  Putin the dwarf and Donnie the orange-haired orangutan had a lot in common. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 69%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  WASHINGTON - A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump's presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday.
  President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under the Trump administration's widely condemned practice of forcibly separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border to discourage illegal immigration.
  ADVERTISEMENT. The Trump administration separated thousands of migrant parents from their children as it moved to criminally prosecute people for illegally crossing the southwestern border.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: family^#1 separated^#2 children^#3 reunite^#4 force^#5 >
  
  Alternative headline:  US returns some of the kids they stole and lost >
  
  Peace of garbage: Trump. Hope same happens to his children and grand children >
  
  From the thumbnail, i was confused and worried . I thought I was about to read Jeff Bezos stole kids to work in Amazon warehouses or something. >_< don't act like it's unreasonable given the last 7 years.