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Some young children reunited with parents don’t recognize them: report
The Hill ^ | 07/11/18 | Jacqueline Thomsen

Posted on 07/11/2018 6:16:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Some migrant parents who have been reunited with their young children say the children no longer recognize them, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

The parents told the newspaper that after waiting months to see their children again, the kids cried and didn’t recognize them.

“He didn’t recognize me,” one parent, Mirce Alba Lopez, told The Times of her 3-year-old son. “My joy turned temporarily to sadness.”

The parents also said the children believed that the other children they were detained with were their siblings.

The families who spoke with the Times were reunited Tuesday after a court ordered the Trump administration to reunify the families separated at the border under a since-ended administration policy.

Officials had until Tuesday to reunite immigrant children under the age of 5 with their families. The administration earlier this week said it would not meet this deadline, and in a court filing Tuesday revealed that 38 out of the 102 identified children would be reunited on time.

The administration on Tuesday essentially returned to its “catch and release” policy for immigrants, releasing migrant families wearing ankle monitors into the U.S. after courts prevented officials from holding the families detained at the border.

A top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official also said Tuesday that the administration had paused referring immigrant adults with children for prosecution and had also equipped them with ankle bracelets before releasing them.

Trump has railed against the "catch and release" policy. His administration imposed a "zero tolerance" policy at the border earlier this year, mandating that all immigrants caught illegally crossing the border face prosecution.

That led to the separations of families and a political controversy that eventually forced Trump to issue an executive order ending the family separations.


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1 posted on 07/11/2018 6:16:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t want that problem? Don’t come here illegally. Simple. Now, where’s that tiny violin?


2 posted on 07/11/2018 6:18:55 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen
“He didn’t recognize me,” one parent, Mirce Alba Lopez, told The Times of her 3-year-old son. “My joy turned temporarily to sadness.”

Be sure to sing your tale of woe back in whatever craphole you came from. There's a lesson, here: Stay home or enter legally, and these things won't happen to you.

3 posted on 07/11/2018 6:20:42 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: yesthatjallen

Trump should not have caved on this issue.


4 posted on 07/11/2018 6:22:44 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Illegal aliens, stop abusing your children.

Liberals, stop supporting human trafficking.


5 posted on 07/11/2018 6:23:52 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: yesthatjallen

As soon as you get back home, that will fix itself.


6 posted on 07/11/2018 6:25:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Soul of the South

He is going to have to do something because more are coming. This Flores Ruling needs to be challenged or fast-tracked to SCOTUS.


7 posted on 07/11/2018 6:25:43 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: yesthatjallen

How do you say ILLEGAL in a language that these Invaders understand?


8 posted on 07/11/2018 6:26:08 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Regressive Swamp Dwellers)
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To: yesthatjallen

bullsh!t


9 posted on 07/11/2018 6:28:04 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I do not believe this for one minute.


10 posted on 07/11/2018 6:28:11 AM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yet, toddlers who haven’t seen a deployed military parent for six months to a year will. Maybe.. just maybe.. these aren’t the “parents” at all.


11 posted on 07/11/2018 6:29:11 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberals, piss off. That is all.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh my gosh! How tragic! I’ll have to run to Sam’s for a other case of Kleenex.


12 posted on 07/11/2018 6:31:56 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t try to steal into our country to steal from us, the taxpayers to “make a better life for yourself and your kiddies - stay home and make that better life in your own country, as you aren’t wanting to become Americans bringing your talents and skills - all you want is our ‘stuff’ we’ve created for us - not you!”


13 posted on 07/11/2018 6:32:29 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower..AMERICA! Designed by geniuses - now run by the idiots in Congress)
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To: yesthatjallen

Because they’re not the kids’ parents. They are the human traffickers who brought them in posing as their parents. Probably only saw them a few hours before being separated.


14 posted on 07/11/2018 6:34:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: Soul of the South; All

He needs to do an Andrew Jackson. Anyone know what the Constitution says about a president defying a court order?

I’m hoping there’s a red wave in November then Trump unleashes the dogs.


15 posted on 07/11/2018 6:34:59 AM PDT by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go st inraight to the comments.)
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To: mykroar

Actually, it can happen - briefly - to young children. If they’ve been separated for a while, at first they may not recognize their parent because their hair looks different or they are wearing different clothing. The problem resolves itself within 15 minutes after the child has a chance to hear their voice and talk to them.


16 posted on 07/11/2018 6:35:40 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: yesthatjallen

Crock of shit story!


17 posted on 07/11/2018 6:36:09 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: yesthatjallen
Sure, this has never happened before so it must be Trump's fault. /s

18 posted on 07/11/2018 6:37:10 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Probably because they never saw their “parents” when then were living in their home country. Just because their parents neglected them isn’t our problem. Send them back.


19 posted on 07/11/2018 6:37:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: yesthatjallen

Sadly the 3 year old youth described in this story could no longer understand the native language, having been instructed in proper English.


20 posted on 07/11/2018 6:39:34 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
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