{"id":381030,"date":"2018-10-15T06:51:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-considers-reinstating-family-separations-at-the-border\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T06:51:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:51:29","slug":"trump-considers-reinstating-family-separations-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-considers-reinstating-family-separations-at-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump considers reinstating family separations at the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump considers reinstating family separations at the border<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Meenakshi Jagadeesan<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p> According to a report in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> Friday, the Trump administration is considering reinstating a version of the \u201czero tolerance\u201d family separation program it implemented in May as part of its ongoing war against immigrants. In the most widely discussed proposal, parents who cross the border will be detained with their children for 20 days, at which point they will be forced to chose between being deported together or being detained separately.<\/p>\n<p>This sadistic policy, likely devised by Trump\u2019s aide Stephen Miller, has a distinctly fascistic character. The proposal to force parents to chose between separation and deportation to war-torn, violence-ridden Central America constitutes a form of emotional torture.<\/p>\n<p>The government is employing the language of the extreme right, linking the mass detention of children with \u201ctough-on-crime\u201d rhetoric aimed at falsely presenting immigrants as a threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p> In an email statement to the <em>Post<\/em>, deputy White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said, \u201cCareer law enforcement professionals in the U.S. government are working to analyze and evaluate options that would protect the American people, prevent the horrific actions of child smuggling, and stop drug cartels from pouring into our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told <em>Politico<\/em>, \u201cThere is currently a crisis at our southern border as we encounter rising numbers of adults who enter the country illegally with children. Catch-and-release loopholes in the law incentivize illegal border-crossers to take this dangerous journey because they are unlikely to face consequences for their illegal conduct and in fact will almost certainly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/15\/immi-m10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump considers reinstating family separations at the border By Meenakshi Jagadeesan 10 March 2019 According to a report in the Washington Post Friday, the Trump administration is considering reinstating a version of the \u201czero tolerance\u201d family separation program it implemented in May as part of its ongoing war against immigrants. In the most widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}