Sure, but not all kids.
I’d think we’re better relying on something objective like a DNA test rather than the judgement of a child.
Some of these children were separated from their parents when they were very young. And they’re being held in detention camps. They might agree to go with the first adult who shows an interest if them.
Man, I am genuinely unhappy to hear this news, as bad as that shit is for me.
On topic to the thread, I agree that this should be a “first 100 days” priority for the Biden administration. It’s a stain on the entire country.
I found a little neighborhood store that was selling cherry M&M’s and I kept buying them because I loved them. I just put out my mind the knowledge that the company had stopped making cherry M&M’s two or three years earlier.
The cruelty was the point.
Fingerprinting would also have provided a way to link children to guardians who accompanied them who were neighbors or more distant relatives – possibly because one reason they were fleeing was because their parents had been killed.
Some additional check needs to be made in such cases to be sure that the adults claiming the children have legitimate reason to do so. But allowing children to be reunited only with their genetic parents is a method that has its own problems.
When the children are old enough to do so, that makes a lot of sense. It’s my understanding that some of them aren’t – and bear in mind that some have already been separated for years.
Yup.
Alright I concede testing may be necessary for some, but by no means all.
A valid point.
Parents are hardly likely to be able to claim a child if they don’t know where the child is in the system, in the first place. It needs a searchable database of all the children involved with whatever identifying information can be collected, and where there are very small children with limited information, DNA would be essential.
Biden Administration rooting around for Trumpy appointed holdovers to fire.
Article in WaPo today about it, discussing the possibilities (and sometimes impossibilities) of purging trumpist appointments. One of the difficulties lies in just finding out who they all are!
It seems this kind of “burrowing” is a commonplace thing and all administrations do it (some of Obama’s burrow-ins are mentioned). OTOH, there seem to be some possibilities.
Somewhere the article also mentions that these burrow-ins also get reviewed annually for five years before their Civil Service jobs are considered truly permanent. But apparently the rules aren’t quite the same for all positions in all departments, otherwise why would Biden have any obstacles at all in canning some of these people?
ETA: Many specific names are mentioned in the article. The numbers of Obama vs Trump burrow-ins are compared. No mention in the article of Louis DeJoy. 
Thankfully gone now, one of several orders reversed by Biden during his first 24 hours.
HA HA HA HA HA! That’s what constitutes a “lie” when it comes to Biden - he exaggerated in common parlance the attitude he felt was displayed. When he announced 100 million doses in 100 days, it was thought ambitious. Then suddenly it is considered not ambitious enough. That’s the reality of what the opinions were.
This is ridiculous “both-sidesism”.
I’ve suggested (see OP) this thread should be reserved specifically for Biden Administration actions in service of un-doing or repairing the damage from the Trump Clusterfuck Admnistration.
Here are two seemingly large-scale items that caught my eye recently:
2/5/2021: News item that Biden rescinds 32 of Trump’s last-ish-minute nominations for various things, including two nominations for lifetime judgeships.
2/3/2021: New Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announces some kind of major purge of Trumpish holdovers in Defense Department:
Purge the Trumpists! Round them up, march them to the wall! More! More! I’m still not satisfied!
The foster care system in America is not adoption agencies, and not cages. It is a system designed to care for children whose parents are currently not available. It is completely possible for them to place any remaining children into foster care and trace relatives to end up placing them with.
The act of tracing relatives itself is the challenge. Some of the children are too young to talk, or know full names of relatives, or any information useful for finding relatives.
Dispersing the children isn’t the problem, and in fact many have already been dispersed. The problem is retaining the traceability. The system for placing kids is supposed to have that kind of records system, but the Trump Administration officials executing this policy purposefully did not gather or retain the information.
Biden just announced a task force to start addressing this travesty. He’s committed to doing whatever he can to right the wrong.
It was absolutely on purpose.
Trump admin ran ‘pilot program’ for separating migrant families in 2017 (nbcnews.com)
This was a Stephen Miller brainchild to deter illegal immigration.
While there is some value in a justice overseen by non-participants, I ultimately feel it is a necessity for Americans to be a part of pursuing the justice against these criminal bastards. This wasn’t the actions of the vast majority of American citizens, it was the evil of a few people in high places. Americans need to show future potential autocrats they can and will be held accountable.
This was a goddamn war crime. Everyone who knowingly helped organize and administer it should go up against the fucking wall.
I can’t agree, as there was no war. It was, however, an act of unmitigated evil perpetrated by our elected officials and their appointed agents. Everyone involved in devising and executing this plan needs to be held accountable.
While the term war crime is often used as shorthand, war crimes are actually a subset of the more general set of international laws like this. There are also crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
As I opined in one of these threads a few days ago, I think this was not a “War Crime” but a “Crime Against Humanity”. Aside from that, @Cervaise is spot on: Round up the MFs and march them to the wall. Of all of Trump’s multitude of crimes and atrocities, this one is way high on the list.