Of course not. What is going on is a criminal matter of complex financial fraud schemes.
I heard rumors that there are, as of January 2018, 29 sealed indictments in the Western Michigan District Court, but hey, what do I know?
Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan
Four days ago, a Homeland Security official proclaimed: “We are not separating babies from parents.”
Yes, you are.
Yet in the middle of the night, two baby boys arrived in Grand Rapids after being separated from their immigrant parents at the southern border weeks ago.
Yet, in the middle of the night, two baby boys were separated from their U.S. Citizen, Michigan mother at their residence, being snatched from their beds by Child Protective Services and no one cared.
Yet, in the middle of the night, two baby boys were separated from their U.S. Citizen, Michigan mother at their residence, being snatched from their beds by Child Protective Services and no one cared.
One child is 8 months old; the other is 11 months old. Both children have become part of a bigger group of 50 immigrant children who have landed in foster care in western Michigan under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy.
Michigan Child Protection Law has a zero-tolerance policy where, poverty is considered the crime of abuse and neglect.
Michigan Child Protection Law has a zero-tolerance policy where, poverty is considered the crime of abuse and neglect.
The average age of these children is 8, a number that has alarmed foster care employees who are struggling to comfort the growing group of kids who are turning up in Michigan at nighttime, when it's pitch-dark outside. They're younger than ever, they say. And they are petrified.
This is when the child placing agencies will put these kids through psychological evaluations and place them on second generation antipsychotropics to silence their screams.
This is when the child placing agencies will put these kids through psychological evaluations and place them on second generation antipsychotropics to silence their screams.
"These kids are arriving between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Not only are they being separated from their family, they are being transported to a place that they don't know in the middle of the night," said Hannah Mills, program supervisor for the transitional foster care program at Bethany Christian Services, which is currently assisting the displaced children. "We have found on many occasions that no one has explained to these children where they are going."
How can you explain to a kid when the kid is still in diapers? I have a better one. How can you explain to a kid that they are about to enter a life of hell in foster care when they are victims of human trafficking?
Moving a tiny human, from point A to point B, without any authorization or warrant, for federal funding cost reimbursements, then warehoused and billed to other federal grant programs, is what we call being Legally Kidnapped.
According to Mills, some of these displaced children got picked up right at the airport by a foster family, while others wound up at a foster care center, begging to talk to their parents. Many have gone 30 days or more without talking to their parents because their parents can't be located, she said.
Not seeing their parents for more than 30 days is nothing. State law affords a parent whose child is in foster care one hour a week visitation, supervised, of course.
“These kids are hysterical. They’re screaming out for mom and dad,” said Mills, who speaks Spanish and can converse with the children, noting only a handful have learned some English.
FUN FACT! NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH IS CONSIDERED CHILD NEGLECT
FUN FACT! NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEAK ENGLISH IS CONSIDERED CHILD NEGLECT
Mills, who has worked with displaced, immigrant children for six years, said the foster agency is dealing with a new, troubling element: Getting unaccompanied children on the phone with their parents. Typically, this takes about three days, she said. But now it's taking up to a month or more because the parents are detained and the agency can't locate them.
What? In foster care you cannot have any contact outside the one hour a week supervised visitation. A parent can face an action of Termination of Parental Rights and the child put up for adoption. Seriously.
What? In foster care you cannot have any contact outside the one hour a week supervised visitation. A parent can face an action of Termination of Parental Rights and the child put up for adoption. Seriously.
"That's probably one of the most detrimental things," Mills said. "At least if we can get a kid to speak with their parent, they can feel safe."
This statement does not speak well for kids "feeling safe" in foster care.
This statement does not speak well for kids "feeling safe" in foster care.
Equally upsetting, Mills said, is watching children when they do finally get on the phone with a parent. For example, she recalled, a tearful 7-year-old on the phone with her mother asking her, 'Are you OK? Are you hurt? Is someone hurting you?' "
So, the kids are doing the jobs of these so-called family organizations checking on the well-being of the parents. Parents are traumatized when their children are Legally Kidnapped, just like the parents who had their children spirited away for the peculiar institution.
So, the kids are doing the jobs of these so-called family organizations checking on the well-being of the parents. Parents are traumatized when their children are Legally Kidnapped, just like the parents who had their children spirited away for the peculiar institution.
"All of it is incredibly upsetting," Mills said, stressing: "The difference is, we're seeing so many more younger kids."
Good. I pray, all of you, awaken every morning to a tear soaked pillow.
Immigration crisis: Where are the girls?
Good. I pray, all of you, awaken every morning to a tear soaked pillow.
Homeland Security officials were not available for comment on why infants and toddlers are being taken from their parents.
$$$$$ Look at the contracts, then pull their financials. You will find they are probably, neigh, they are funding political campaigns.
$$$$$ Look at the contracts, then pull their financials. You will find they are probably, neigh, they are funding political campaigns.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has steadfastly maintained that its goal is to protect the nation's borders, enforce immigration laws and send a strong message to immigrants that if they cross the border unlawfully, they will be prosecuted and their kids taken away.
This is called Child Protection Law, or rather the Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act.
This is called Child Protection Law, or rather the Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act.
There is no federal law that mandates children and parents be separated at the border, though the practice has led to nearly 2,000 kids being misplaced in the past six weeks — a phenomenon that has triggered a firestorm of controversy. Many religious groups, social activists and immigrant-sympathizers are calling for an end to the practice while Trump supporters are saying let him do his job.
Yes, there is law. Here it is, below.
Yes, there is law. Here it is, below.
On Tuesday, the Michigan Department of Civil Rights announced that it's assessing the impact of Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on the state of Michigan and the detained immigrant children, stating it "has a duty to make sure their civil rights are protected."
What about the children who have been removed by CPS (in child welfare we use the term 'removal', not the watered down 'separated')?
What about the children who have been removed by CPS (in child welfare we use the term 'removal', not the watered down 'separated')?
“We have received reports and are very concerned that the children arriving here are much younger than those who have been transported here in the past. Some of the children are infants as young as 3 months of age and are completely unable to advocate for themselves," Agustin V. Arbulu, Executive Director of Michigan Department of Civil Rights said in a statement.
Those tiny humans are quick to adopt because, under CAPTA, these children are considered abandoned, where the Adoption Safe Families Act (ASFA) fast tracks Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) for adoption.
Those tiny humans are quick to adopt because, under CAPTA, these children are considered abandoned, where the Adoption Safe Families Act (ASFA) fast tracks Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) for adoption.
The American Association for Justice also condemned the family separation policy on Tuesday, stating: “These actions are risking the safety and well-being of innocent children. We call on the administration to immediately halt this practice and to reunite these traumatized families. This is not who we are as a nation. We can and must do better.”
The American Association for Justice could wake the hell up and address Child Welfare Law in the United States before making such ignorant statements into the public record.
The American Association for Justice could wake the hell up and address Child Welfare Law in the United States before making such ignorant statements into the public record.
But the Trump administration is not backing down, stressing the policy is about preserving and protecting America's borders and upholding the law. Moreover, it insists, the policy is not new, claiming children have long been placed in foster care when their parents were criminally charged with an immigration violation.
The Trump Administration is proving just how oxymoronic Child Welfare Law is in the U.S. People scream bloody hell on the separation of children from families, but remain eerily silent on the exact same practice by CPS.
The Trump Administration is proving just how oxymoronic Child Welfare Law is in the U.S. People scream bloody hell on the separation of children from families, but remain eerily silent on the exact same practice by CPS.
"What has changed is that we no longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law," Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a White House briefing Monday. "Here is the bottom line: DHS is no longer ignoring the law."
Implode the system with their own law and policy.
Implode the system with their own law and policy.
She later added: "We are a country of compassion. We are a country of heart. ... We must fix the system so that those who truly need asylum can in fact receive it."
We are a country built upon selling chattel, the oldest form of survival.
We are a country built upon selling chattel, the oldest form of survival.
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans desperately searched Tuesday for an end game to the administration's contentious zero-tolerance immigration policy that has drawn fire from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
I believe the Republican leadership is going through a bit of a challenge considering the fact that Bethany Christian Services is a DeVos operation, that probably funds political campaigns in Michigan, and across the nation, but hey, what do I know? I know this is quite awkward, not in the political sense, but in the more than likely possibility of criminal self-indictments. Politicians tend to distance themselves when it comes to admitting to violating federal law.
I believe the Republican leadership is going through a bit of a challenge considering the fact that Bethany Christian Services is a DeVos operation, that probably funds political campaigns in Michigan, and across the nation, but hey, what do I know? I know this is quite awkward, not in the political sense, but in the more than likely possibility of criminal self-indictments. Politicians tend to distance themselves when it comes to admitting to violating federal law.
Trump said Tuesday he wants the legal authority to detain the children along with the adults and "promptly remove families together as a unit."
That would mean Congress would have to speak upon CPS, foster care, adoption, and all the other systems contained within Child Welfare.
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