Michael Stone (patheos.com, Feb. 5, 2019); Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency
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| They can go to my for profit agency |
The Trump administration says it
can’t reunite missing migrant children with their families; instead,
many of the children are being shipped to a Christian adoption agency
with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Earlier this week the Trump
administration told a federal court that it would require too much
effort to reunite migrant children with their parents. Associated Press reports:
The Trump administration says it would require extraordinary effort to reunite what may be thousands of migrant children who have been separated from their parents and, even if it could, the children would likely be emotionally harmed.
According to the Associated Press
report, the Trump administration is also concerned that reunification
would “present grave child welfare concerns” because the children would
be removed from their “sponsor” homes:
Jonathan White, who leads the Health and Human Services Department’s efforts to reunite migrant children with their parents, said removing children from ‘sponsor’ homes to rejoin their parents ‘would present grave child welfare concerns.’ He said the government should focus on reuniting children currently in its custody, not those who have already been released to sponsor homes.
The entire situation is horrific.
Commenting on the horror, and expressing the feelings of many, Oregon
Senator Jeff Merkley tweeted:
This is what evil looks like. t.co/YMe6KjdsPt— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) Feb. 4, 2019
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| I'd say anything for Trump (R. Stone) |
As for the fate of the thousands of children the Trump administration does not want to reunite with their parents, Progressive Secular Humanist
previously reported that many of the migrant children ruthlessly
separated from their family by the Trump administration are being
shipped to Bethany Christian Services, a Christian adoption agency with
ties to the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Last year Rewire News
reported on the condition of some of those children separated from
their parents, linking the migrant children to Bethany Christian
Services:
Migrant children in Michigan who have been separated from their parents by the Trump administration are attending “a special school” run by Bethany Christian Services, an anti-choice organization with a record of coercive adoption practices that has yet to receive instructions about how to reunify these children with their detained parents.
Fact checking website Snopes confirms the well established links between the DeVos family and Bethany Christian Services:
The links between the extended DeVos family and Bethany are undeniable. Tax filings archived by ProPublica
show that between 2001 and 2015, the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation
(the philanthropic organization run by DeVos and her husband) gave
$343,000 in grants to Bethany Christian Services. More
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