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Official says agency warned
family separation bad for kids
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A
Department of Health and
Human Services official
told senators Tuesday that
his agency had warned the
Trump administration that
separating families would
be dangerous for children.
But some of the govern-
ment’s top immigration offi-
cials used a Senate hearing to
largely defend how the pol-
icy has been implemented,
with one comparing family
detention centers to “a sum-
mer camp.”
One official told the Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee that
while the Trump adminis-
tration was developing its
immigration policies, Health
and Human Services offi-
cials said they were wor-
ried “about any policy which
would result in family sep-
aration due to concerns we
had about the best interests of
the child.” Commander Jon-
athan D. White of the U.S.
Public Health Service Com-
missioned Corps, a branch
of HHS, said they were
also uncertain their depart-
ment had enough resources
to handle large numbers of
detained immigrants.
“There’s no question
that separation of children
from parents entails signifi-
cant potential for traumatic
psychological injury to the
child,” White said.
Asked by Sen. Rich-
ard Blumenthal, D-Conn.,
what response HHS offi-
cials got from administra-
tion policymakers, White
said, “The answer was there
was no policy which would
result in separation of chil-
dren from family units.”
White is a career official at
HHS who has served in three
administrations.
White’s remarks came
as the Judiciary committee
questioned officials about
what has become an elec-
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Federal Health Coordinating Official for the 2018 UAC
Reunification Effort Cmdr. Jonathan White testifies as
the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on
the Trump administration’s policies on immigration en-
forcement and family reunification efforts, on Capitol
Hill in Washington on Tuesday.
tion-year liability for the
Republicans and the White
House — President Don-
ald Trump’s separation
of migrant children from
detained families. Trump
dropped the policy more than
a month ago under fire from
Democrats and Republicans
alike. But of more than 2,500
children who were initially
separated from parents and
guardians, hundreds remain
in federal custody including
more than 400 whose parents
left the U.S. without them.
Lawmakers and journal-
ists who have visited some
detention facilities around
the country and migrants
themselves have reported
poor conditions. The top
members of the Judiciary
committee — Chairman
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,
and Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca-
lif. — have asked inspectors
general of two federal agen-
cies to investigate reports
by news organizations that
immigrants at some centers
have suffered alleged sexual
and other forms of abuse.
Matthew Albence, an
executive associate direc-
tor at U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, told
the lawmakers that “the best
way to describe” conditions
at family detention centers
was “like a summer camp.”
He said the facilities undergo
rigorous inspections and
offer basketball and other
forms of recreation, food and
water around the clock and
medical and dental care.
“We do not leave our
humanity behind when we
report for duty,” Carla L.
Provost, acting chief of the
U.S. Border Patrol, told
members of the committee.
At one point, Sen. Mazie
Hirono, D-Hawaii, asked
witnesses whether they
would want their children
to stay in one of the gov-
ernment’s family detention
centers.
“I think we’re missing the
point,” answered Albence.
“These individuals are there
because they have broken a
law.”
While some Republicans
offered measured criticism of
the problem, Democrats rid-
iculed Trump’s immigration
policies as cruel and bun-
gling. No. 2 Senate Demo-
cratic leader Richard Durbin
of Illinois said Homeland
Security Secretary Kirstjen
Nielsen should resign and
that someone “has to accept
responsibility” for policies
that show “the extremes this
administration will go to.”
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
chided the administration for
not having an adequate sys-
tem for matching separated
children with their parents.
He cited the often frantically
crowded Chuck E. Cheese
children’s restaurants as hav-
ing procedures that work.
When Sen. Sheldon
Whitehouse, D-R.I., asked
the witnesses “what went
wrong” when the govern-
ment began having trouble
matching detained children
with parents or guardians,
the most specific answer
came from the public health
service’s White.
“Children were sepa-
rated from their parents and
referred as unaccompanied
alien children when in fact
they were accompanied,”
White said.
Grassley said Trump’s
crackdown on people ille-
gally crossing the border
from Mexico was well-in-
tentioned but has had unin-
tended consequences. He
said the administration
has “mishandled” family
separations.
The officials said they
keep records of children in
their custody and can docu-
ment decisions by hundreds
of detained parents to will-
ingly leave the U.S. without
their children, an assertion
that has drawn skepticism
from lawmakers. Some
migrants separated from
their children have said they
did not understand what they
were signing.
White called a family’s
decision to leave children
behind “a desperate last act
of a parent” that he said is
“unfathomable until you’ve
walked in those parents’
shoes.”
Facebook finds
‘sophisticated’ efforts
to disrupt elections
NEW YORK (AP) information using its plat-
— Facebook set off form and that the affected
a firestorm Tuesday, groups are affiliated with
announcing that it had the political left.”
The identified accounts
uncovered “sophisticated”
sought to “pro-
efforts, possibly
mote divisions
linked to Russia,
and set Ameri-
to
manipulate
cans against one
U.S. politics and
another,” wrote
by extension the
Ben Nimmo and
upcoming mid-
Graham Brookie
term elections.
of the Atlantic
The
com-
Council’s Dig-
pany was care-
ital
Forensic
ful to hedge its
Research
Lab
announcement; Zuckerberg
in a blog post
it didn’t connect
the effort directly to Rus- Tuesday.
The perpetrators, Face-
sia or to the midterms,
now less than a hundred book noted, have been
days away. And its find- “more careful to cover
ings were limited to 32 their tracks” than in 2016,
apparently fake accounts in part because of steps
on Facebook and Insta- Facebook has taken to
gram, which the company prevent abuse. For exam-
removed because they ple, they used virtual pri-
were involved in “coordi- vate networks and internet
nated” and “inauthentic” phone services to mask
their locations, and paid
political behavior.
But official Washing- third parties to run ads.
After it became clear
ton went ballistic any-
way, not least because that Russia-linked actors
the reported activity so used social media to try
closely mirrored Russian to influence the 2016 U.S.
influence efforts during election, Facebook has
countermea-
the 2016 presidential escalated
election. Nearly 300,000 sures intended to prevent
people followed at least a repeat. It has cracked
one of the newly banned down on fake accounts and
accounts and thousands tried to slow the spread of
expressed interest in fake news and misinfor-
mation through outside
events they promoted.
“This is an absolute fact-checkers. The com-
attack on our democracy,” pany has also announced
said Virginia Sen. Mark new guidelines around
Warner, the top Democrat political advertisements,
on the Senate intelligence requiring disclosure of
committee. He expressed who paid for them.
Facebook has ramped
“pretty high confidence”
that Russia was behind the up spending on these and
other measures, so much
assault.
A spokesman for Sen- so that it spooked inves-
ate Judiciary Chairman tors with a forecast of
Chuck Grassley said Face- lower profitability last
book informed his office week. Facebook’s shares
that “that a limited group promptly dropped almost
of Russian actors has 20 percent and haven’t
attempted to spread dis- recovered.
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