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Private Prison's Profiting Off of Detainment Centers

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Private Prison's Profiting Off of Detainment Centers

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Two private prison organizations, CCA and GEO, operate 8/10 of the largest immigration detention centers. They've recently expanded their capacity and have new contracts for asylum seeking families.
The CCA grew from $133,373,000 (2007) to $195,022,00 (2014) and the GEO grew from $41,845,000 (2007) to $143,840,000 (2014)

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This is what happens when a government believes people are “illegal.”

Kids in cages. https://t.co/OAnvr9cl3P

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This is what happens when a government believes people are “illegal.”

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This is what happens when a government believes people are “illegal.”

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— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) June 12, 2018

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Immigration Law: Key Supreme Court Cases

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Immigration Law: Key Supreme Court Cases

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Vance v. Terrazas

Landon v. Plasencia

Kwong_Hai_Chew v. Colding

Matthews v. Diaz

INS v. Elias-Zacarias

Fiallo v. Bell

Vartelas v. Holder

Kleindienst v. Mandel

INS v. Lopez-Mendoza

INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca

INS v. Delgado

Toll v. Moreno

Plyler v. Doe

Shaughnessy v. US ex rel Mezei

Graham v. Richardson

US v. Wong Kim Ark

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Senator Jeff Merkley shows concern for detention centers in US 

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Senator Jeff Merkley shows concern for detention centers in US 

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Senator Jeff Merkley  is a Democrat from Oregon. This summer, he tried visiting a detention center in Texas where immigrant children were being held. He came to check in on the situation. Police were summoned when he wanted to come in, and he was told to leave.

Senator Merkley stated that, "Every American citizen has a stake in how these children are being treated and how this policy is being enacted." He said a new policy under President Donald Trump is “ripping away” children from immigrant families who have entered the country illegally or are seeking asylum here.
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A picture of a small child gripping the side of a cage and crying went viral over the summer.
Film maker and photographer Jose Antoinio Vargas posted it originally to Twitter saying,
"This is what happens when a government believes people are 'illegal.'  Kids in cages."
The photo was actually taken at an event protesting the "zero-tolerance" policy instead of what was believed to be an actual detainment center.

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what part of the constitution does this apply to?

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what part of the constitution does this apply to?

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The U.S. Congress — the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States — develops and passes legislation, which the president signs into law, and federal agencies (executive branch) implement legislation. The primary immigration law today is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (the INA).

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They Support legal immigration only.  Oppose amnesty for those who enter the U.S. illegally (illegal immigrants).  Those who break the law by entering the U.S. illegally do not have the same rights as those who obey the law and enter legally.  The borders should be secured before addressing the problem of the illegal immigrants currently in the country.  The Federal Government should secure the borders and enforce current immigration law.

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Originally, the administration said that only 2,300 children had been separated from their parents.
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The Trump administration has detained 2,322 children 12 years old or younger amid its border crackdown, a Department of Health and Human Services official told Kaiser Health News on Wednesday. They represent almost 20 percent of the immigrant children currently held by the U.S. government in the wake of its latest immigrant prosecution policy.

Their welfare is being overseen by a small division of the Department of Health and Human Services - the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) - which has little experience or expertise in handling very young children.

The number of children has exploded in the past six weeks since the Trump administration moved to stop parents and their children at the U.S. border and separate and detain them in different facilities. A total of 11,786 children under age 18 are currently detained, the official said.

A total of 11,786 children under age 18 are currently detained.

Since 2003, ORR has been charged with sheltering and finding suitable homes for "unaccompanied alien children" - generally teenaged immigrants who reach the United States without a parent or guardian.

But its responsibilities have morphed and multiplied since April because the immigration crackdown means that the ORR is now responsible for detaining not only more children, but minors who are far younger than those who had arrived in the past, experts said.

Beyond specialized medical care, younger children have different food and housing needs, and require more personal attention.

"The children are younger and will be there for a longer time and are deeply traumatized by being forcibly separated from their parents," said Mark Greenberg, a former administration official at HHS' Administration for Children and Families, which oversees the ORR. "All of that makes it much more difficult to operate the program."

The complex crisis is magnified by the inexperience of some of the political appointees leading the response, said critics who include former officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations of the past decade.

ORR Director Scott Lloyd is a lawyer whose career has been focused on anti-abortion efforts. He led the Trump administration's legal efforts to prevent abortions for detained teen immigrants. Lloyd's main immigration experience before leading ORR was research for a report on refugees for the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic service organization with an anti-abortion stance, according to a deposition he gave in lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

"The children are younger and will be there for a longer time and are deeply traumatized by being forcibly separated from their parents."

Kenneth Wolfe, the HHS spokesman who provided the figures, declined to address how many people are currently working at ORR or whether ORR had secured additional staff or expertise to cope with the influx of young children. He also would not say how many of the 2,322 children 12 and younger have been separated from their families.

The administration had previously refused to provide the ages of the children separated from their families - saying only that about 2,300 children have been separated and detained since the policy took effect.

The detention conditions, which include children being held in chain-link holding pens and "tent cities," have ignited a political firestorm over possible abuse in the treatment of children as young as 4. Some of these younger children - including toddlers - are being sent to "tender age" shelters, according to media reports. The care is also costly: Tents alone cost HHS $775 per person per day, according to media reports.

Republicans, including former first lady Laura Bush, have called on the administration to stop the policy. President Donald Trump has blamed Congress for the detentions, but top White House advisers were actively promoting family separations as a policy shift.

News reports have described children as young as 5 being scolded for playing, one teenager teaching others how to change a small child's diaper, and caretakers not being permitted to touch children. ProPublica reported that more than 100 children detained are younger than 4.

ORR, experts add, is already at a disadvantage.

"It's significantly challenging to create that capacity, and quite expensive," noted Robert Carey, a former ORR director from the Obama administration. "All the aspects of care are dramatically different based on age. ... You need people who are trained in early childhood development or care."

That's a heavy lift for an office that, experts stress, was never built to serve as a long-term housing system.

It's not clear, Carey and others said, that the administration has had sufficient time or support to adapt.

Many ORR employees, Carey added, are career staffers with deep knowledge about immigration and child welfare, with whom he frequently worked while in office.

"It does not look like they've figured out this process."

"The kids are going into the custody of ORR without adequate resources," said Shadi Houshyar, who directs early childhood and child welfare initiatives at Families USA, an advocacy group. "It's definitely going to result in some potentially damaging decisions being made. The capacity, training and fundamental orientation - while understanding the needs of children - is not the orientation that ORR has."

While ORR has a history of placing teenagers who arrive on their own with relatives of families in the U.S., that challenge is heightened by the policy of separating children, who are young and may understand little of the experience or be able to identify relatives who could take them in.

Making matters more complicated, when families are separated, parents and children are tracked by different federal agencies - the parents by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the children by ORR. Children are also tracked and treated the same as minors who arrived on their own. Together, that makes reunification more difficult. And that's a problem experts worry will persist, even if family separations cease.

"It does not look like they've figured out this process," said a former HHS official, who requested anonymity because she could face professional ramifications for speaking publicly. As a result, she added, "the time the child stays in ORR could be significantly longer" - which in turn adds to trauma and causes other long-term problems.
KHN's coverage of children's health care issues is supported in part by the Heising-Simons Foundation.

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A fifth of immigrant children detained under 'zero tolerance' policy are younger than 13

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The number of children has exploded in the past six weeks since the Trump administration moved to stop parents and their children at the U.S. border and separate and detain them in different facilities.

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A woman and her 18 month old daughter from Guatemala were being held in Dilly, Texas.
The toddler developed a "cough, congestion, and a fever of over 104 degrees"
Six weeks later she died at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia.
False Rumors spread that she died in custody at the detainment center.

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When Yazmin Juárez arrived at the South Texas Family Residential Center, in Dilley, Texas, in March, her 18-month-old daughter, Mariee, was a healthy toddler with plump cheeks who liked dancing and singing with her mother, and was blissfully unaware of her confinement. Yazmin, 20, had crossed the Rio Grande with her daughter in hopes of seeking asylum to escape the violence that had engulfed her home country of Guatemala.

Yazmin and Mariee were apprehended on the U.S. side of the river by Customs and Border Protection. They were then transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, which sent them to the Dilley facility, the largest of three family detention centers for undocumented migrants in the country, with a capacity of 2,400.

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One week after arriving at Dilley, Mariee developed a cough, congestion, and a fever of over 104 degrees. During the next two weeks of her confinement, Yazmin felt powerless as her daughter got sicker, rebounded, and got sick again, battling a virus that started with a common cold.

Six weeks after being released from the facility, relocated to New Jersey, and shuffled between three hospitals, Mariee was finally unhooked from a ventilator and died at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The cause of death, ultimately, was viral pneumonitis, according to hospital records.

Mariee did not die in ICE confinement. One month into VICE News' investigation, false rumors about her death spread on social media, sparking outcry from immigration advocates who have long been concerned about conditions for children at Dilley. She died of a viral infection that can kill children anywhere, though doctors say that conditions at institutions like Dilley allow viruses to spread more easily and make it hard to recover.

Yazmin is now pursuing legal action against ICE and also has concerns about her care after she left the facility. "I still don't understand why this happened to me. After all I suffered, I only deserve happiness," she said.

Yazmin recently retained lawyers who now say that the Dilley facility "failed inexcusably" in caring for Yazmin and Mariee.

"Instead of offering safe harbor from the life-threatening violence they were fleeing, ICE detained Yazmin and her baby in a place with unsafe conditions, neglectful medical care, and inadequate supervision," said R. Stanton Jones, a partner at Washington, D.C.-based Arnold & Porter law firm. "While there, Mariee contracted a respiratory infection that went woefully undertreated for nearly a month. After it became clear that Mariee was gravely ill, ICE simply discharged mother and daughter. Yazmin immediately sought medical care for her baby, but it was too late."

ICE declined to comment specifically on Mariee's case but said the agency takes medical care seriously. "ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency's custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care. Comprehensive medical care is provided to all individuals in ICE custody," a spokesperson said in an email.

Five pediatricians who reviewed Mariee's symptoms, vital signs, and doctor's notes in ICE medical records from her time at Dilley, told VICE News that the course of treatment Mariee received was consistent with what they would do for a toddler presenting with those symptoms.

But Mariee did ultimately die from an infection that was first detected at Dilley, which has a history of complaints of inadequate medical care for children. In July, two doctors contracted by the Department of Homeland Security released a review of care in facilities including Dilley over the last four years. The doctors found a host of problems and called the practice of family detention "an exploitation and an assault on the dignity and health of children and families."

Crowded conditions

Doctors and health advocates have spent years arguing that the mass detention of children and families in prison-like facilities can cause stress, trauma, and health problems. Pediatricians who spoke to VICE News said these conditions can hurt a child's ability to recover from a respiratory infection.

"Respiratory diseases, they flourish in the setting of crowding," said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "Now you're adding this terrible level of psycho-social stress on kids, that could also impair their immune system, making them more susceptible to viruses and bacteria."

These facilities have become even more controversial in the wake of the Trump administration's zero tolerance immigration policy that caused mass family separation earlier this year, and they are currently the only option for detaining adults who cross the border illegally with their children. The administration is planning to expand its capacity to hold migrant families by constructing more facilities like Dilley. In June, ICE requested space to hold 15,000 more people in family detention, cementing the policy into the future.

VICE News was able to reconstruct the last two months of Mariee's life through interviews and a review of medical records, with permission from Yazmin. Doctors say the virus Mariee contracted might have killed her even if she had initially received full hospital care rather than her treatment at Dilley.

"It didn't sound like she was in the best of health, but not something you anticipate dying from"

"It's reasonable care," said Dr. Ewen Wang, associate director of pediatric emergency medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. "It didn't sound like she was in the best of health, but not something you anticipate dying from."

One doctor said he might have sent Mariee to a hospital for lab work, but the results likely wouldn't have changed the outcome. All five doctors said that Mariee's recommended course of treatment would have been the same had she not been in ICE custody.

Still, medical experts and advocates have long stressed that conditions in ICE facilities can be risky for sick children. Detention puts children at higher risk of contracting disease, and crowded, stressful conditions make it harder to recover.

"Those stresses are real; they affect the child's abilities to fight an infection and illness and win," said Brian Blaisch, a pediatrician in Oakland, California, who has experience working in immigrant detention centers.

Arriving at Dilley

Yazmin was clutching copies of Mariee's vaccination records when they were picked up by U.S. Border Patrol agents on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande on March 1. Agents took away their belongings. "They gave us a bag to put our stuff in, and we couldn't touch it anymore," she said. "They put us in the cages in a very cold room, and the only thing they gave us was a gray blanket like the ones used to wrap a gift."

After three days, they were moved into a cell at Dilley with six beds for six mothers and their children, including at least one other child who got sick while they were there. Yazmin and Mariee's schedule was highly restricted. They could only go to the cafeteria during certain hours, and they often had to wait for most of the day to be seen by medical staff.

Dilley was built by the Obama administration in 2014 and is operated by private prison giant CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) under a $1 billion contract. Dilley is the largest of three immigrant family detention centers in the U.S.

After public outcry following the Obama administration's ramp-up of family detention, the American Academy of Pediatrics sent a letter to DHS urging the agency to stop detaining families in facilities like Dilley: "Continued detainment of any children and mothers in the existing facilities puts them at greater risk for physical and mental health problems and unnecessarily exposes children and mothers to additional psychological trauma."

DHS conducted a review of conditions at family facilities in 2016 following more controversy and found that ICE standards didn't properly address the immediate needs of sick children. "Parents and children should not have to wait 24 hours for treatment and should not have to wait for their healthcare needs to become urgent to receive quicker attention and treatment," the report found.

In a July review, two doctors and experts in detainee healthcare, Scott Allen and Pamela McPherson, who were contracted by DHS to conduct 10 investigations of ICE's family detention centers over the past four years, documented unsafe conditions for children.

"Those stresses are real, they affect the child's abilities to fight an infection and illness and win"

At Dilley, Allen and McPherson found detainees seeking medical care were held together in a gym because the facility lacked sufficient medical space. They also said Dilley had trouble keeping pediatricians on staff, did not hire a child psychiatrist, and sometimes placed toddlers and their parents in medical isolation for days as punishment for normal toddler misbehavior. On one occasion, a nurse mistakenly gave multiple children at Dilley adult doses of a vaccine, they found.

"The placement of innocent children in confinement because of the action of a parent is unjust and places children in harm's way to advance a message of deterrence," Allen and McPherson wrote.

Mothers detained at Dilley over the past few years report similarly concerning conditions. Many, like Yazmin, said it wasn't unusual to wait an entire day or even two days to see the medical staff. Yazmin said that in order to see a medical professional, she waited for hours in an over-air-conditioned room with 200 other patients.

In one case, a mother said she waited several hours to be seen when her 4-year-old daughter had constant vomiting, diarrhea, and a fever, according to a sworn affidavit taken by her lawyer and reviewed by VICE News. She said the staff gave her daughter Vicks Vaporub, ibuprofen, and an allergy medication, but her symptoms continued and she lost 20 percent of her weight.

"My daughter tells me she feels very weak; she does not want to get up in the morning, and she does not want to play," she said in the affidavit. "She never had any of these symptoms or demonstrated any of these behaviors before coming here."

"My daughter tells me she feels very weak; she does not want to get up in the morning, and she does not want to play"

Katy Murdza, advocacy coordinator at the Dilley Pro Bono Project, said even healthy kids regress in detention to wet the bed, misbehave, and turn into people their parents don't recognize. Murdza said she hears medical concerns from parents about their children constantly. She estimates that once a day she flags a medical case to ICE, and about once a week recommends that ICE release a detainee to get medical help elsewhere.

While CoreCivic operates Dilley, the company told VICE News it does not provide any of the medical or mental healthcare staff or service, which are provided by ICE's Health Service Corps. "We have deep sympathy for the family for their tragic loss," the company said. CoreCivic staff "do not make medical or mental health treatment determinations and are trained to refer all detainee health or medical concerns, whether routine or acute, to facility medical staff for evaluation, triage and treatment."

Mariee gets sicker

When she arrived at Dilley, Mariee was given a full medical screening by a registered nurse who listened to her lungs and heart, inspected her skin and abdomen, checked her vitals, and tested her for TB. The nurse determined that she was healthy and cleared her to stay at Dilley.

Yazmin was pleasantly surprised that school and other activities for the kids were available at the facility. She befriended two other mothers from Guatemala, and Mariee played with the other kids the way she used to at a plaza by their house in Guatemala, Yazmin said. As they posed for their identification card photo, Yazmin smiled, wrapping her arms around Mariee. She had tied up Mariee's hair in a bun style matching her own.

But six days after arriving, Mariee wasn't playing anymore, and was clearly coming down with a cold. A physician assistant prescribed Tylenol and honey to soothe the cough, but the next day Mariee was worse, with a temperature of 104.2 degrees, a cough, diarrhea, and a rapid heart rate, according to medical records obtained by VICE News. A physician's assistant diagnosed her with bronchiolitis and an ear infection, and gave her the antibiotic Augmentin, Tylenol, and Pedialyte.

On March 14, Yazmin had her credible fear interview with an asylum officer, the first hurdle in order to move forward in the asylum process. If a family passes, they're allowed to leave detention and wait for their next immigration hearing in the U.S. If a family fails, they're likely sent back to their home country.

Rather than leave Mariee in daycare with other sick kids, she held her in her arms while she told her story of the violence in Guatemala that had motivated her to seek refuge in the United States. Mariee was visibly sick at this point, and Yazmin said the officer asked what was wrong with her. Yazmin burst into tears, explaining that she wasn't able to get Mariee the medical attention she thought she needed.

Growing desperate, Yazmin called her mother in New Jersey, who wired her money to buy tea and lemon at the commissary for Mariee. "I was desperate because of my daughter," Yazmin said. "I would cry to my mother like crazy."

"I was desperate because of my daughter"

The day after the interview, Yazmin made her third visit to medical staff to seek treatment for Mariee. She'd lost two pounds since they arrived at Dilley and was still coughing and had a runny nose. A physician assistant continued her course of treatment with Pedialyte, Augmentin, Tylenol, and a probiotic.

The following week, Mariee's condition improved. At a mental health appointment, a social worker wrote in an evaluation, "Mother notes that daughter has felt much better after being sick last week and is happy." Notes from that appointment say Mariee was "over her cold."

More good news came two days later, when Yazmin learned she had passed her credible fear interview and would be released from Dilley. She was relieved that she would soon be able to take Mariee to see a doctor outside the facility.

That afternoon, however, Yazmin told the Dilley medical staff Mariee wasn't able to finish the Augmentin because she couldn't keep it down. Mariee had gained some of the weight back, but her fever had spiked again to 103.3, and the medical staff heard her lungs make a wheezing sound. A pediatrician at the facility prescribed ibuprofen, Vicks Vaporub and Zyrtec, an allergy medication. None of it seemed to work.

At that point, Yazmin was thinking about all options to get care for Mariee. She begged supervisors at Dilley to send her and Mariee back to Guatemala, where despite the danger at least she knew she could take her to a hospital.

Following advice from her detention roommates, Yazmin said, she snuck salt from the cafeteria to rub on Mariee's belly. As she left the cafeteria, she curled her wrists into 90-degree angles to keep the packets in her sleeves from falling to the ground. Two days later, Yazmin took Mariee back to the medical area because she was still not better. The registered nurse's notes say "a referral would be made for her to see a provider."

Yazmin and Mariee are released

After passing her credible fear interview, Yazmin knew she would have the chance to get Mariee to a hospital. She just hoped it wouldn't be too late. On March 25, the day they were released, a licensed vocational nurse cleared Mariee as healthy enough to travel, but there is no record that anyone took Mariee's vital signs that day.

Yazmin and Mariee boarded a plane to New Jersey, where they looked forward to joining Yazmin's mother and brothers, who would all be meeting Mariee for the first time, Yazmin felt a sense of relief, even though it was her first time flying. Now that she had complete control over Mariee's care, she believed her daughter would recover.

The next day, Yazmin and her mother immediately took Mariee to a local pediatrician, who gave Mariee an antibiotic to fight any bacterial infection, another to fight inflammation, and albuterol nebulizer treatment to calm her breathing. She told Yazmin to take her to the ER if her breathing got worse.

Within a few hours, Yazmin said, Mariee was having trouble breathing again. She took Mariee to the ER at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey. Two days later, doctors there diagnosed her with pneumonia and transferred her to the ICU. "I would tell her, 'I know you'll get better; you've always been a strong girl, a brave girl, and I know you'll get better,'" Yazmin said.

Doctors put Mariee in a medically induced coma and gave her a breathing tube. She would spend the last few weeks of her life at hospitals in New Jersey and Philadelphia.

"She couldn't wake up," Yazmin said. "I couldn't touch her, because I could damage her with the tubes she had. She had, like, 20 little bags injected into her. She was in really bad shape."

"She had, like, 20 little bags injected into her. She was in really bad shape"

After three weeks in intensive care, doctors told Yazmin that Mariee's only chance of survival was a special life support machine called ECMO at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She had to sign off on a helicopter transfer for Mariee and her breathing equipment - there wasn't room for Yazmin in the helicopter.

On the morning of May 10, Yazmin was in Mariee's room, scrolling through the Bible on her phone and writing her favorite verses on a yellow hospital legal pad. A chaplain visited and prayed with her, then she shared photos of Mariee, and told the chaplain how she loved to dance and was starting to learn the songs Yazmin would sing to her.

Yazmin remembers hearing one machine start to make a noise, and then more and more noise. She asked the doctors what was going on, and they said not to worry, but she could see Mariee getting swollen. Later she learned Mariee was suffering from internal bleeding.

By 7 a.m., the doctors had resuscitated Mariee several times. Yazmin watched Mariee's skin turn from purple to black. The doctors told Yazmin that Mariee would not survive, and asked if they could take her off the ventilator.

"It was the most difficult decision of my life," Yazmin said. Mariee died at 9:26 a.m.

JFK Medical Center, Jersey Shore Medical Center, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia declined to comment on Mariee, citing patient confidentiality.

Yazmin decided to send Mariee's body to Guatemala - alone - to be buried with her relatives.

"I had the illusion of making a new life with her, because my life in Guatemala was unbearable," she said. "I wanted to live happily with her, to go to the park with her and to work hard for her. She was everything to me, but unfortunately that didn't happen."

Now, Yazmin is going to school and working at a restaurant in New Jersey, and lives in a house with her mother and three brothers. Yazmin's room is full of pictures of Mariee. On the floor is a big box of medical bills, some addressed to Mariee. She wonders how she'll deal with the more than $2 million in medical fees she now owes from Mariee's care after she left ICE facilities. Her asylum case is still pending, and Texas child welfare officials are investigating Mariee's death.

"I don't know if they'll send me back," Yazmin said. "Being here will help me to excel myself and to continue my studies to have a decent life. I do it for my daughter because that's what I wanted for her."

Photos: Family photos of Mariee and Yazmin in Guatemala, courtesy of Yazmin Juárez.

Cover illustration: Leslie Xia

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This toddler got sick in ICE detention. Two months later she was dead.

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"She was everything to me." A mother questions ICE's role in her baby's death.

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Favreau tweeted on Sunday, "Look at these pictures. This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible."

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Liberals and even ostensibly objective journalists are experts at getting themselves outraged. But only if they think that an abuse is occurring under President Trump.

Over Memorial Day Weekend, former Obama White House speechwriter Jon Favreau attempted to pin the blame of the harsh and brutal conditions for children and families at immigrant detention centers on President Trump.

Favreau tweeted on Sunday, "Look at these pictures. This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible."

He then linked to an article in AZcentral titled, "First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility." The picture accompanying the piece looks quite terrible, with kids in the sort of cages you might see in a dog kennel.

But here's the problem: The article and photo are from 2014, when Favreau's boss, Barack Obama, was president, and had been president for five to six years.

The Daily Caller called Favreau out on this, and he has since deleted the tweet. However, that didn't stop others from making their move to gin up outrage to elevate their own platforms.

This level of outrage followed a New York Times report that the Department of Health and Human Services lost nearly 1,500 immigrant children. They then had to walk that claim back saying that these children weren't "lost," but that many of their adult sponsors did not respond to the federal agency.

The lesson that can be learned from this is that Democrats are just as blindly apologetic and complicit in letting the Obama administration mete out the same exact treatment toward immigrant families that they criticize now that Trump is president. They pretend to care about the issue of immigration in the age of Trump, but they were completely silent when their allies were running the show.

And yes, Republicans have, by and large, excused reprehensible and borderline racist behavior coming from President Trump simply because they stand to benefit from his policies. But, at the same time, you've never seen this many Republicans stand up and call out a Republican president for his comments and policies when they believed he's in the wrong. Any moral objections Democrats had to Obama while he was in office were quite vigorously suppressed.

So what's the best strategy to avoid this faux outrage in the future? Start by caring more about your country than your party.

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Not all Americans can agree with each other, but many are agreeing that children shouldn't be taken from their familys' and caged.

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The Rev. Franklin Graham, and Rev. Billy Graham with an outspoken defender of President Trump, said in an interview on Tuesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network, “I think it’s disgraceful, it’s terrible to see families ripped apart and I don’t support that one bit.”

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A bus equipped with what resembles car seats was a source of outrage as many people claimed it was a "baby prison bus."
The bus was designed to carry children from ages 4-17 for medical treatments, to court appointments, and to offsite monthly field trips.

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A photograph depicts a "special prison bus for babies" used by ICE at an immigrant detention facility.

In mid-May 2018, social media users began encountering a photograph of a bus outfitted with child safety seats, which was described in accompanying text as depicting a "special prison bus for babies" use by a "private prison company running detention facilities" for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency:

Certainly the handling and treatment of undocumented children caught crossing the U.S. border has been a subject of controversy going back several years, but whether the vehicle pictured above should justifiably be described as a "special prison bus for babies" is a subjective matter.

U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) maintains a family detention facility for undocumented immigrants called the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas. That center is managed by GEO Group, Inc., a private company specializing in corrections and detention facilities.

According the GEO Group's own description, the Karnes facility houses women with children, and it provides educational services (as well monthly field trips) to the school age children held there:

In December 2010, The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) was selected by Karnes County, Texas to design, build, finance, and manage a new detention facility under an intergovernmental service agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On July 11, 2014, the contract was modified to convert the facility from a Civil Detention Facility into a Family Residential Unit for females and their children.

Residents are provided education programming, medical care, recreation, visitation facilities, recreation, life skills/chores, study time, group interaction, free time, and access to religious and legal services. All residents of school age are offered educational services through a certified charter school. Each classroom is equipped with state-of-the-art smart-boards which allow children to interactively participate in classroom instruction. Field trips are provided monthly for all children to local parks, libraries, and other community events.

The photograph displayed above was featured in a 29 April 2016 Geo Group press release describing the purchase of two "New Specialized Transport Buses" outfitted with convertible child safety seats, intended to be used to carry children ranging from ages 4 to 17 for medical treatment, to court appointments, and on monthly offsite field trips:

The expansion of the Karnes County Residential Center (KCRC) was completed in early December 2015, and increased the capacity to 1,158 beds.

The expansion created new demands to an already unique transportation mission by requiring larger capacity vehicles to provide offsite field trips. These field trips are part of the contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Field trips are provided to all children, ages four through seventeen enrolled in educational programs provided by the John H. Wood Charter School, located at KCRC. Field trips consist of going to a variety of places, such as the San Antonio Zoo, seeing a movie at the local theater, going to the park, etc.

On February 4, 2016, two new fleet vehicles were delivered to the KCRC to fulfill contractual obligations. The first vehicle is an eighteen-seat passenger bus that is ADA compliant with rear wheelchair lift system and the second bus has twenty-six seats. These vehicles do not have standard GTI security equipment such as steel cages or window bars or screens. Both buses have camera systems and digital video recorders to record all activity during transport.

Both buses are outfitted with standard commercial grade cushioned seating. Each seat has a convertible child safety seat and is equipped with a DVD system with four drop down screens to provide entertainment to the children with onboard movies during transport missions.

To date, the field trips have been a huge success and the frequency and numbers of school aged children being transported offsite for these sanctioned activities is expected to increase in the future.

These specialized missions are in addition to normal transportation requirements for offsite medical appointments, offsite medical emergency transports and transports of residents to federal court in San Antonio, Texas or to the ICE Field Office appointments in San Antonio.

So yes, the photograph in question depicts a bus purchased to ferry children being held at an immigrant detention center to medical/legal appointments and recreational functions. Whether that makes it a "prison bus for babies" or merely a transport vehicle outfitted for children is in the eye of the beholder.

Barajas, Michael. "ICE Awards Contract to Private Prison Company That Was Just Slammed in Federal Report."
HoustonPress. 22 September 2015.

Hennessy-Fiske, Molly. "Ex-Worker at Karnes Immigrant Detention Center Says She Saw Unethical Behavior."
Los Angeles Times. 27 July 2015.

Carr, Billy. "New Specialized Transport Buses."
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FACT CHECK: Is This a Picture of ICE's 'Special Prison Bus for Babies'?

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A transport vehicle outfitted for children held at an immigrant detention facility has been described as a "prison bus for babies" by some.

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According to the Washington Examiner, former Obama White House speechwriter Jon Favreau attempted to pin the blame of the harsh and brutal conditions for children and families at immigrant detention centers on president Trump. He did this through tweeting a photo that was from four years ago and did not apply to the current detention center issue seen in 2018. Many people retweeted and believed the photo was legitamate.

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Pictures of immigrant children in "cages" after President Trump's crackdown on immigration over the summer are actually pictures from 2014. The shelters from the picture have been closed.

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"Democrats oppose any effort to secure our border." - President Donald Trump 10/31/18

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PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

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conservative commentator Ann Coulter said, without evidence, that the migrant children photographed at detention facilities or otherwise in distress were child actors.

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Former first lady Laura Bush Called immigration camps “eerily reminiscent of . . . internment camps.”

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Trump has stated in one of his rallies in Nevada that democrats want to give illegal immigrants the right to vote. There is no evidence that this has ever been proposed.

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Editor's Note: For weeks, President Donald Trump has been campaigning in states that are key to the Republican Party's chances of maintaining control of the House and Senate. We have reviewed seven speeches he gave from Oct. 10 to Oct. 22. This is the first in a series of stories on his speeches.
President Donald Trump is trying to make illegal immigration a key issue in the midterm elections. In Montana, which borders Canada, Trump tells supporters that "it's going to be an election of the caravan," referring to the several thousand Central American emigrants who are traveling to Mexico and the U.S. in search of refugee status.

In seeking to motivate his supporters to vote Republican, Trump makes wildly inaccurate and baseless immigration claims about the "radical" Democrats - a term he used 38 times in seven speeches (36 times in referring to Democrats and twice in referring to "Islamic terrorists").

Trump warns his supporters that the " radical Democrat mob" has become the "party of crime" and wants to "throw your borders wide open to deadly drugs and ruthless gangs." He accuses the Democrats - without evidence - of funding the migrant caravan, and falsely claims they want to give " illegal immigrants the right to vote."

His claims about the Democrats have become increasingly exaggerated. In Arizona, he jokes, "Next thing you know, they want to buy them a car." And then he states, as a fact, the next day in Nevada: "They want to give them cars."

Here we look at some of the false, misleading and unsupported claims the president has made about immigration in seven speeches over 12 days, from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Missoula, Montana.

Giving 'Illegal Immigrants the Right to Vote'?

To a predictable chorus of boos, Trump makes the baseless claim that Democrats "want to give illegal immigrants the right to vote."

Trump, Nevada, Oct. 20: That's why Democrats want to give illegal immigrants the right to vote. I'll tell you, we'll go down fighting for that one. Can you imagine? People - you know, the vote was always so sacred. Now you see these things where they want the right to vote. They want the right to vote. There's one town in California where they want to take over the - illegal immigrants want to take over the control of the board that runs the town, all illegal immigrants. And, you know, you would think they're kidding. Seriously, would you even believe this? And they are serious.

It is against the law for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, and the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate have not proposed to change that.

At the local level, voters in San Francisco approved a measure in 2016 that will allow noncitizen residents with children to vote in school board elections. The city council of College Park, Maryland, also came close in 2017 to allowing noncitizen residents to vote in citywide elections, but the measure didn't receive enough votes to pass.

That still isn't evidence of a national or even statewide push to allow immigrants in the country illegally to vote. We also aren't aware of a California town where the board members are "all illegal immigrants," and the White House did not identify one when we asked.

In 2015, Jhonny Pineda, a Huntington Park, California, council member, who is now mayor, appointed two of the city's longtime residents, who are both living in the U.S. illegally, to two city commissions. Pineda issued a statement that said the men, Julian Zatarain and Francisco Medina, "are eligible to serve on the city commissions as long as it is solely volunteer work and both individuals do not receive financial benefits from the city."

Zatarain was appointed to the Parks and Recreation Commission and Medina was appointed to the Health and Education Commission. Those are just two of the city's six commissions that advise the five-person city council on a number of issues.

It was in Nevada, too, where Trump fabricated the claim that Democrats want to give "illegal immigrants" cars.

'Chain Migration' Fable

A staple of the president's stump speech is his distorted tale of Sayfullo Saipov - the Uzbekistan national who has been charged with killing e ight people when he drove his truck into a crowd of pedestrians, bicyclists and joggers along the Hudson River in New York City on Oct. 31, 2017, according to the indictment.

In speeches on Oct. 22 in Texas, Oct. 19 in Arizona and Oct. 13 in Kentucky, the president claims - without evidence - that Saipov used "chain migration" to bring 22 relatives to the United States. There's no evidence that Saipov brought even one relative to the country.

Trump, Kentucky, Oct. 13: He came in, and then he took chain migration, and he brought his mother, and his father, and his brother, and his sister, and his aunt, and his grandfather. None of them working. It ended up being approximately 22 people who came in. It's called a chain. Isn't that wonderful? A chain.

Trump, Texas, Oct. 22: So he has 22 people that came in, because he's here. So he's here, it's called chain, a chain, nice name, chain migration. He's here. His mother comes with him, his father then comes, his uncle, his aunt, his brother, his nephew, his sister. 22 people. No jobs. Just 22 people.

Trump is referring to a family-based immigration program that allows U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, to sponsor family members for permanent U.S. residency - as First Lady Melania Trump did in sponsoring her parents, who later became naturalized U.S. citizens. Melania Trump became a U.S. citizen in 2006.

But there is no evidence that Saipov brought any family members to the U.S. Trump claims that Saipov's "mother comes with him, his father then comes," but that's not true. Saipov's father and mother - Habibullo Saipov and Muqaddas Saipova - were living in Uzbekistan at the time of the attack, as reported by the and the Wall Street Journal.

Princeton University Professor Marta Tienda, a demographer who has studied family sponsorship, called Trump's claim an "implausible exaggeration" when we wrote about it earlier this year.

As we wrote in April, Saipov arrived in the U.S. through the reen-card holders "may petition for certain family members to immigrate to the United States as permanent residents," Diversity Immigrant Visa Program in 2010, and he was a green-card holder, or legal permanent resident, at the time of the attack, according to state and federal officials. G according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. But those "certain family members" include only a spouse and children. Saipov married after he came to the United States, so it is possible he did not sponsor any family members. DHS has declined to comment, citing privacy laws, and Saipov's court-appointed attorney did not respond to our request for information.

Diversity Immigrant Visa Program

At his rallies, Trump routinely mocks the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program as a "visa lottery," falsely claiming that other countries abuse the visa program "to dispose of their problems," as he said in Texas.

Trump, Texas, Oct. 22: That's why they support visa lottery. You know what visa lottery is? Countries put names in a batch and you pick 'em. You pick 'em. You keep picking them. And then you got nothing but problems, because you think those countries are putting their finest? I don't think so. It's a great way to dispose of their problems. Visa lottery.

Trump, Ohio, Oct. 12: Right now, we have a system, lottery, a lottery. Think of it, lottery. Oh, pick 'em, I wonder? What people do you think these countries are putting in? Do you think they're putting in their finest? I don't think so. I don't think so. So we're going to end it.

Trump grossly misrepresents the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which uses a computer lottery system to randomly issue up to 50,000 immigrant visas each year to qualified applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

As we wrote last year, the visa applicants - not their governments - submit the applications to the U.S. Also, the applicants are vetted by numerous U.S. agencies and officials - as are those applying for other visa programs.

Eligible diversity visa applicants must demonstrate to the U.S. that they have a high school education or its equivalent or "two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience to perform." There are more than a dozen grounds of inadmissibility, including health issues, criminal activity, national security concerns and the "likelihood of becoming a public charge," meaning "a person who is primarily dependent on the government for subsistence."

"The diversity lottery is a true lottery," Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, who teaches immigration law at Cornell Law School, told us for our previous story. "There is no way a foreign government can game the lottery to offload the worst of their citizenry."

Bogus Border Security Claims

As we mentioned earlier, Trump portrays the Democratic Party as being taken over by "radicals" who want to "abolish ICE" and "have open borders." In Ohio, Trump said, "The new platform of the Democrat Party is to abolish ICE." In Texas, he said, "They're for open borders, which means crime, and for massive tax cuts."

But, as we wrote, Democrats are not advocating open borders. Yes, some liberal Democrats have called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement - angered by the administration's " zero tolerance policy," which caused the separation of children and parents crossing the border illegally. But these rank-and-file Democrats - not the party leaders - have also called for transferring many of ICE's functions to other government agencies. Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin sponsored a bill - " Establishing a Humane Immigration Enforcement System Act " - that would do just that. It has eight cosponsors.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have both called for the immigration functions to be restructured and not abolished. "No one can watch ICE play such a central role in the heartbreak and horror of family separation without reasonably concluding that a drastic overhaul of its immigration functions is desperately needed, and soon," Drew Hammill, Pelosi's spokesman, said in a statement.

MS-13 Gangs

In his speeches, the president also falsely blames the Obama administration for the rise of the transnational gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, in the United States, and exaggerates his efforts to deport gang members.

Trump, Ohio, Oct. 12: These towns are being liberated of the MS-13 garbage that came into our country. Under the previous administration, by the way. And they came in by the tens of thousands - well, we have set every record on getting them out.

Trump, Texas, Oct. 22: They came in through the wonderful Obama administration. We removed thousands and thousands of these people.

The fact is MS-13, which is a "primarily El Salvadoran" gang, formed long before the Obama administration, and there's no evidence that its membership grew during the Obama years. The gang originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s, according to a 2005 National Gang Threat Assessment report funded by the Justice Department. Attorney General Jeff Sessions estimated its members number more than 10,000 - a figure the department has been using since 2006. We covered all of this in our article " Trump's MS-13 Miss."

Trump also exaggerates when he claims his administration has "removed thousands and thousands" of MS-13 gang members. The administration has put a priority on the gang - but cannot provide any evidence that "thousands and thousands" have been removed from the country.

Alysa Erichs, acting deputy executive associate director of Homeland Security Investigations, told a Senate subcommittee that there have been 1,450 criminal and administrative arrests of MS-13 members from the beginning of fiscal year 2017, which started Oct. 1, 2016, through May 3, 2018. That time span includes nearly four months under President Obama and nearly 16 under Trump. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told us that those are the most current figures available. The spokesperson also said ICE does not track how many MS-13 members are deported.

'Caravan'

There are roughly 7,000 Honduran and Guatemalan emigrants traveling to Mexico and the U.S. in the hopes of seeking refugee status. The United Nations says that, as of Oct. 23, 1,500 of them have applied for refugee status in Mexico.

Trump portrays this "caravan" as a threat to national security and accuses the Democrats of financing the caravan, repeatedly reminding his supporters that this midterm is " going to be an election of the caravan," as he put it in Montana.

While making a gesture of money being handed out, Trump claimed in Texas - without any evidence - that the Democrats "had something to do with" funding the Central American emigrants. He not only has made this claim at rallies, but also in a tweet.

Trump, Nevada, Oct. 20: The Democrats want caravans. They like the caravans. A lot of people say, I wonder who started that caravan?

Trump, Texas, Oct. 22: Do you know how the caravan started? Does everybody know what this means? I think the Democrats had something to do with it.

This unfounded conspiracy theory, as we have written, began with an Oct. 17 tweet by Rep. Matt Gaetz, who posted a grainy video of the Central American emigrants receiving something - money? - from two men. Gaetz, who said he received the video from a " Honduran government official," questioned if the money came from mega Democratic donor George Soros. But Gaetz provided no evidence for his claim about Soros during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," saying only it would be a problem if it were happening.

'Worst' Immigration Laws

Trump implemented his "zero tolerance policy" for families crossing the border illegally because he was frustrated with federal laws that allow some of them to seek refugee status and stay in the U.S. until their cases are heard. But the president goes too far when he claims the U.S. is required to accept all people who illegally cross the border into the U.S.

Trump, Montana, Oct. 18: We have the worst laws anywhere in the world. We have the dumbest laws anywhere in the world. Somebody comes in and we say, excuse me, a foot hits the ground. You know, if a foot hits the ground, we're not allowed to say, hey, go back. Every other country in the world, they say go back. Can't come in. Sorry.

A foot hits the ground, we have to by law, with these horrible people that are making their own rulings, having nothing to do with our Constitution, we have to take those people in, even if they're, criminals and we have hardened criminals coming in. You think those people are perfect? They're not perfect.

It's inaccurate for the president to claim the U.S. is required to "take those people in" who illegally set foot in the U.S.

"It's not true that we have to take them in, but we do have to allow them the opportunity to apply for asylum," said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. "It's definitely a misleading statement at the very least," Pierce said of Trump's claim.

As the Congressional Research Service explains in an August 2018 report, "the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) establishes a number of avenues by which various categories of aliens can be denied entry or removed from the United States."

Typically, the report says, officials will place unauthorized immigrants found in the interior of the U.S. into formal removal proceedings, which involve going before an immigration judge within the Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review. But officials can also use an expedited removal process "without a hearing or further review" for certain individuals stopped at or near the U.S. border who do not have "valid entry documents or [have] attempted to procure [their] admission by fraud and misrepresentation."

However, expedited removal is not allowed, as Pierce indicated, if the person wishes to apply for asylum, a form of protection for those who can't or won't return to their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. In that case, they are granted an interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to determine if they meet the requirements for a credible fear exemption. If they do, they are placed in formal removal proceedings where they are able to apply for asylum or related protections.

Another CRS report from September notes that "expedited removal accounts for a substantial portion of the alien removals each year," and that Trump issued an executive order in January 2017 directing DHS to up its use of expedited removal. "The agency has yet to promulgate regulations implementing this directive," CRS says.

The same report explains that the U.S. does not have to allow certain non-Canadian nationals arriving from Canada to apply for asylum. Instead, they are to be returned to Canada, where they can apply for protection in that country.

Border Wall

Trump repeats his assertion that a proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border will stop the flow of illegal drugs coming from Mexico. That's not realistic, experts say, because the vast majority of illicit drugs comes through legal ports of entry.

Trump, Montana, Oct. 18: You don't have the wall, you don't have a border. What you have is you have infiltration of drugs like you've never seen.

The fact is that Mexican cartels "transport the bulk of their drugs over the Southwest Border through ports of entry (POEs) using passenger vehicles or tractor trailers," the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a 2015 report. "The drugs are typically secreted in hidden compartments when transported in passenger vehicles or comingled with legitimate goods when transported in tractor trailers."

John Kelly, Trump's chief of staff, acknowledged at a congressional hearing in April 2017, when he was Department of Homeland Security secretary, that illegal drugs from Mexico "mostly comes through the ports of entry." At the hearing, Kelly said "the big issue really right now in drugs coming into the United States is the ports of entry." He talked about the need to improve technology - such as density meters - that can "look" into vehicles for signs of drugs packed into tight areas.

Experts we interviewed last year for our story ", a Middle Tennessee State University political science professor whose research has largely focused on Mexico, and Will Trump's Wall Stop Drug Smuggling?" didn't think the wall would make much of a dent in the drug trade. In addition to the fact that most drugs come hidden in trucks and cars that pass through legal ports of entry, Stephen D. Morris Peter Reuter, a University of Maryland criminal justice professor who founded and directed RAND's Drug Policy Research Center from 1989 to 1993, told us that smugglers adapt to U.S. attempts to stop the drug trade. Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who writes about the illegal drug trade, said simply, "The wall won't stop the flow of drugs into the United States."

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Here we look at some of the false, misleading and unsupported claims the president has made about immigration in seven speeches over 12 days, from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Missoula, Montana.

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