It’s probably good that ICE lost ‘1,500 kids’

pyranova:

zwischenstadt:

There’s a lot of misinformation going around about the kids that ICE has supposedly lost.  I bought it too, but Arri has pointed out to me that there’s serious misunderstandings being passed around social media.

– The 1,500 ‘missing kids’ number does not come from families separated at the border.  Rather, it comes from children released back from custody to their families, who are not obliged to then tell ICE their whereabouts.  This is good.  ICE shouldn’t know their whereabouts

– Families that have actually kept ICE updated about their whereabouts have often been mass deported.  ICE is intentionally trying to trick these families into getting themselves deported

– The Office of Refugee Resettlement is currently run by a fascist religious psychopath who’s trying to use this narrative to gain more power over refugees

– There has been an escalating policy of separating kids from families by ICE over the past decade, and Jeff Sessions wants to increase the frequency with which this happens.  The information being published about this, especially from the ACLU, is legit.

If you want to read analyses of this from actual immigration lawyers:
Tina Vasquez

Josie Duffy Rice

Joise Duffy Rice goes into more detail here. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1000927903759110144.html

Also I was not aware of what ORR was before this.