CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The State Department warned in a report on Thursday [6-28-18] that separating children from their parents can cause lasting psychological damage that leaves them vulnerable to trafficking, a cautionary tale that comes amid an uproar over a Trump administration immigration policy that has temporarily broken up migrant families as they enter the United States…Since May, the Trump administration has separated more than 2,300 migrant children from families crossing the southwestern border. The children are placed in shelters and other temporary housing for up to 20 days while their adult parents or other relatives are held in federal custody during their immigration proceedings. President Trump has demanded that Congress reverse the policy, but did so himself last week with an executive order. He initially defended the shelters for young migrants as a safeguard against what he called a ‘massive child smuggling trade…'”
-Gardiner Harris, “In Human Trafficking Report, State Dept. Warns Against Separating Children From Parents,” The New York Times online, June 28, 2018