New York Magazine has a pretty awful explainer up right now this is giving no context to the fact that “more than 11,000 children are currently in detention.” In short, the number doesn’t break down the number of kids who were sent across the border as unaccompanied minors vs. those who were separate from their families by the zero-tolerance enforcement policy now in effect:
More than 11,000 children are currently in detention. Here's everything you need to know about the shelters in which they're being housed https://t.co/JUmAReSajC
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 18, 2018
It’s an important distinction:
Literally the only thing I need to know is that more than 11,000 children are currently in detention. They could be frolicking in ice cream in the gilded halls of Versailles and it would still be an incomprehensible abomination to forcibly separate them from their families. https://t.co/jUDeUWFa3b
— your friend Helen (@hels) June 18, 2018
Because when parents send their kids to cross Mexico alone, taking them into custody — which is the plan, by the way — at the border is not the same as putting them “concentration camps”:
Ask yourself:
Q. What would you do to protect your children?
Q. If you said "anything it takes," imagine your child being seized in a country where they don't speak the language, taken from your side, and kept in these conditions.
Still think this is ok? #TrumpConcentrationCamps https://t.co/Ap8pqfZPVE— Deborah Harkness (@DebHarkness) June 18, 2018
Vox’s Dara Lind is making this same point of you don’t believe us. He tweeted “most of” these kids are unaccompanied minors and “were not forcibly separated”:
I hate to actually you but most of those 11K were not forcibly separated; they are legit unaccompanied minors (generally teens) who came to the US without their parents/guardians.
— Dara Lind (@DLind) June 19, 2018
This is an important distinction and one that’s being overlooked, although it’s one DHS Sec. D made at the podium on Monday:
"So I want to be clear on a couple of other things," Nielsen said. "The vast majority, vast, vast majority of children who are in the care of H.H.S. right now — 10,000 of the 12,000 — were sent here alone by their parents. That is when they were separated” https://t.co/n3Q9pvCQ4e
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 19, 2018
Imagine that. Vox explains why the Trump administration was telling the truth.
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