The Department of Homeland Security Is “Kidnapping People’s Kids”
Trump officials claim, falsely, that they are splitting up families for the children's benefit.
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freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: "motherjones_right_rail_1", slotId: "ROS_ATF_300x600" }); Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, flanked by Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, at a June 11 press conference.Oliver Contreras/AFP/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche gave a press conference on Thursday to tell reporters about 300,000 supposedly “missing” immigrant children. These were unaccompanied minors who’d crossed the border alone during the Biden administration, before being apprehended by the government and then quickly released to sponsors—typically adult relatives.
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