That work at Heritage dovetails w/plans on the #Trump campaign website to expand #PresidentialPower that were drafted primarily by 2 of Trump’s advisers, VincentHaley & RossWorthington, w/input from other advisers, including #StephenMiller, the architect of Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda (#TheCrueltyIsThePoint #FamilySeparation)

#Authoritarianism #Tyranny #Dictatorship #illiberal #VOTE

Ron DeSantis Signs Law Allowing Trans Kids to Be Taken From Their Families: The state can now kidnap kids in Florida.

https://newrepublic.com/post/172748/ron-desantis-signs-law-allowing-trans-kids-taken-families

#NewRepublic #RonDeSantisLaw #TransKidsRights #FamilySeparation #ChildProtection #FloridaLaw #Politics #News

“Theoretically, a state dependency court would determine whether it is in a child’s best interests to be reunited w/a parent, even if the parent has been removed or is facing imminent removal,” said Carlos Holguin, a lawyer who has represented thousands of #migrant children in federal custody.

If a judge decided against returning a child to a migrant parent & no US relative was available, the child might be placed in #FosterCare until he or she reached… 18, Holguin said.

#FamilySeparation

U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN #SEPARATED AT BORDER UNDER #TRUMP & PUT IN FOSTER SYSTEM

While foreign-born children were transferred to shelters operated by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, where they were entered into federal databases & eventually allowed to speak w/their parents by phone, there was no such system for children dispatched to state #FosterCare systems.

#FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/us/migrant-family-separations-citizens.html

#FamilySeparation was one of the most evil violations of #HumanRights by the tRump regime. Still need to find kids, reunite families, and gol darn it hold Steven Miller and Jefferson "butterscotch" Sessions to legal account. They harmed kids on purpose.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/3/2150902/-Biden-admin-s-task-force-has-reunited-more-than-100-additional-children-since-October

When I worked as a family dispute resolution practitioner, the week before Christmas was always distressing as many separated couples had left it too late to get an appointment.

They were heading towards a Christmas fraught with conflict about which one of them the children would spend the day with. And we knew that often that conflict would completely destroy Christmas for those children.

If you're in that situation please remember that as parents your actions influence your children. You can influence whether they will have lovely memories or traumatic ones. Your children, when they're older, may either look back on their childhood & realise that even though it was hard, you put them first; or they may think you were dicks & preferenced your own issues. They will remember.

Please show them your kindness. They want to be allowed to love you both.

I DO know it's hard. I've been there, as a child of separated parents & as a separated parent myself.

#Christmas
#FamilySeparation

When I worked as a Family Dispute Resolution practitioner, the lead up to Christmas was always especially chaotic. Separated couples, enmeshed in distress and conflict, would leave it to the last minute to negotiate care arrangements for their children over the holidays, and often the needs of those children became lost among the parents' perceived "rights".

I no longer work in that sector. But I recently came across this poem which is a beautiful reminder that we do not own our children.
#poetry
#parenting
#FamilySeparation

#familyseparation

These scholars are trying to stop #KirstjenNielsen from getting a soft landing

A challenge to America’s culture of elite impunity.

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/9/18300584/kirstjen-nielsen-secretary-homeland-security-boycott

#FamilySeparation #BabyJail

Americans don't want our tax dollars to be used to carry out the anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration. Say NO to funding for #familyseparation and imprisonment! https://moms.ly/2PaJevJ #ProtectFamilies #FamiliesBelongTogether