But when the children, all between 5 and 12 years old, arrived at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s adults-only Port Isabel Detention Center, rather than seeing their parents, they saw a parking lot full of vans just like theirs, with children from other facilities who, just like them, were waiting to be processed and reunified with their parents.
Not until 39 hours later — after two nights in a van — did the last child step out of a van to be reunited.
…There was no one present to greet the arriving children and they were not equipped to process them in a parking lot.
…ICE told BCFS staff that if the children returned to Harlingen, they would be further delayed in seeing their parents. The children began to sleep in the vans.
Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight
Are you fucking kidding me???!
We remove children from their parent’s homes for less.
The officers involved belong in jail.