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Trump's DOJ Lied About the Guatamalan Children (OF COURSE)
(I posted this to a previous thread of mine re same, but maybe it deserves its own thread)
In spite of the onslaught of developments unpredictable and some, no doubt, deliberate, the real and consequential horrors of Trump's maladministration are still a reality, and are still playing out behind the din.
One being the story of the attempted disappearance of hundreds of Guatamalan children, loaded aboard airplanes in Texas in the dead of night, for destinations unknown (Guatamala, they said).
The Trump administration's cover story being that it was done at the request of their families.
Only, as it turns out, that too was bullshit:
DOJ backs off claims about Guatemalan children it sought to deport - POLITICO via MSN
The Trump administration backed off claims Wednesday that hundreds of Guatemalan children it attempted to send to the country last month — before a judge blocked the abrupt weekend deportations — had been requested to return by their parents.
A Justice Department attorney acknowledged that the government’s earlier claims had no factual basis and in fact had been contradicted by a review by the Guatemalan government. That review indicated that parents for most of the children could not be located, and those who were largely suggested they wanted their children to remain in the United States for economic opportunities.
The report from Guatemala’s attorney general — filed with the court this week by lawyers representing the children — said none of the families who could be found actually sought the return of their kids. About half the families contacted “expressed annoyance when this Office went to their residences, rejecting the request to conduct an assessment, sometimes in an intimidating manner.”
A Justice Department attorney acknowledged that the government’s earlier claims had no factual basis and in fact had been contradicted by a review by the Guatemalan government. That review indicated that parents for most of the children could not be located, and those who were largely suggested they wanted their children to remain in the United States for economic opportunities.
The report from Guatemala’s attorney general — filed with the court this week by lawyers representing the children — said none of the families who could be found actually sought the return of their kids. About half the families contacted “expressed annoyance when this Office went to their residences, rejecting the request to conduct an assessment, sometimes in an intimidating manner.”
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