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How Trump Weaponized the Government’s Refugee Resettlement Agency

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American Civil Liberties Union
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How Trump Weaponized the Government’s Refugee Resettlement Agency

November 28, 2018, 10:30 AM
The Office of Refugee Resettlement was supposed to protect vulnerable immigrant children. Now it’s an arm of Trump’s deportation force.

Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, both under the Department of Homeland Security, entered into a memorandum of agreement with an obscure government agency known as the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. The office, known by its initials ORR, had traditionally served vulnerable immigrant youth coming to the United States without an adult. The agency took custody of those children while it worked to place them with a sponsor, often a relative, who would care for them. But thanks to the Trump administration’s family separation policy, ORR also began taking custody of the thousands of immigrant children forcibly separated from their parents in the past year. Continue reading here.

 

 

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