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BREAKING: Trump separated an immigrant toddler from her family for five months, when it was sexually assaulted in federal custody!
A heartbreaking new lawsuit reveals the horrific cost of Trump’s family separation policy. A 3-year-old girl crossed the border with her mother and was forcibly separated from her by immigration officials.
She was placed in a foster home in Harlingen, Texas, while her father – a legal permanent resident already living in the U.S. – waited desperately for five long months to get her back.
Only when he turned to the courts did he learn the devastating truth: his little girl had been sexually abused multiple times by an older child in that foster home.
She told caregivers it caused bleeding. The father says officials brushed it off as an “accident” and refused to give him details, even though he repeatedly begged for information as one of her parents.
The abuse was so serious that the accused older child was removed from the program, and the girl underwent a forensic exam and interview. All of this happened while she was supposed to be under the protection of the federal government. The Associated Press, which broke the story, doesn’t name victims of sexual assault or their families.
“She was so long in there,” the father told the AP. “I just think that if they would have moved faster, nothing like that would have happened.”
This nightmare is the direct result of Trump’s aggressive new rules that dramatically increased detention times for immigrant children and pushed to expand family detention indefinitely.
To have your own child abused while in the government’s care, and then be kept in the dark about it, is unimaginable.
Separating 3-year-olds from their mommies and putting them in dangerous foster care for no reason is not “border security.” It’s cruel, inhumane, and unacceptable.
Trump separated an immigrant toddler from her family for five months, when it was sexually assaulted in federal custody!
A heartbreaking new lawsuit reveals the horrific cost of Trump’s family separation policy. A 3-year-old girl crossed the border with her mother and was forcibly separated from her by immigration officials.
She was placed in a foster home in Harlingen, Texas, while her father – a legal permanent resident already living in the U.S. – waited desperately for five long months to get her back.
Only when he turned to the courts did he learn the devastating truth: his little girl had been sexually abused multiple times by an older child in that foster home.
She told caregivers it caused bleeding. The father says officials brushed it off as an “accident” and refused to give him details, even though he repeatedly begged for information as one of her parents.
The abuse was so serious that the accused older child was removed from the program, and the girl underwent a forensic exam and interview. All of this happened while she was supposed to be under the protection of the federal government. The Associated Press, which broke the story, doesn’t name victims of sexual assault or their families.
“She was so long in there,” the father told the AP. “I just think that if they would have moved faster, nothing like that would have happened.”
This nightmare is the direct result of Trump’s aggressive new rules that dramatically increased detention times for immigrant children and pushed to expand family detention indefinitely.
To have your own child abused while in the government’s care, and then be kept in the dark about it, is unimaginable.
Separating 3-year-olds from their mommies and putting them in dangerous foster care for no reason is not “border security.” It’s cruel, inhumane, and unacceptable.
