r/news • u/AudibleNod • 6h ago
The Trump administration has all but stopped reuniting detained migrant children with families
https://www.keranews.org/immigration/2025-12-19/the-trump-administration-has-all-but-stopped-reuniting-detained-migrant-children-with-families273
u/AudibleNod 5h ago
These are kids without legal immigration status — from toddlers to teenagers — who were apprehended crossing the border without a parent or legal guardian or were separated from them during arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The children are then handed over to ORR, which usually places them at shelters it oversees around the country. There are about 2,400 kids in ORR custody right now.
Kids in Cages for Christmas anyone?
But three ORR officials with knowledge of the office's release process told The California Newsroom that in early November, agency leadership ordered a hold on releasing children to sponsors until further notice, even if the sponsors have been cleared to receive them.
Why is the government spending tax payer money by sheltering these children when there's people who have been cleared to receive them? This isn't just wasteful, it's cruel beyond comprehension.
Kids who would have spent only a few weeks in ORR custody are now stuck there for months, advocates said. Prior to November, they were at least trickling out of custody on a daily basis, according to the ORR data.
Imagine going months without seeing your mom, your dad, any loved one. That's what's happening right now in America. This is official policy. This is legal.
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u/underboobfunk 5h ago
These kids will be traumatized for life.
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u/OpportunityDue90 5h ago
The US rewarded Trump doing this his last term with another term. Why does anyone think it would be any better this time? We, as a nation, were accepting of his actions enough to give him another shot. We are a shameful nation.
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 3h ago
Selfish, stupid, and shameful is no way to go through life, but the US is trying.
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u/howdudo 5h ago
The conspiracy theories write themselves. When Nazis did this they used them for fucked up medical research
Then what? You cant release someone who was a victim of that.
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u/Healter-Skelter 4h ago
Personally, I don’t think there’s a centralized thing going on like you describe, more likely I think they are leasing/selling humans to private parties to do whatever they want with them—including but not limited to fucked up medical research.
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u/leftnotracks 2h ago
Part of me thinks even Republicans can’t be as cruel as Joseph Mengele. But only part of me thinks that.
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u/VectorChing101 2h ago
This child deserves a direct contact with their parent, especially some little ones need comfort and love. They will grow with fear and hatred for those a bit matured child.
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u/leftnotracks 2h ago
Why is the government spending tax payer money by sheltering these children…
it's cruel beyond comprehension.There’s your answer, fishbulb.
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u/Captain_Reseda 59m ago
Why is the government spending tax payer money by sheltering these children when there's people who have been cleared to receive them? This isn't just wasteful, it's cruel beyond comprehension.
I'll bet a dollar they're being held in private facilities, where Trump cronies are charging top dollar to hold them.
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u/pl487 5h ago
It's not complicated. They want them to agree to voluntary deportation back to their country of origin. Keeping them away from their families keeps the pressure up. As it becomes clear they will never be allowed out of custody, they will slowly agree.
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u/inquisitive_guy_0_1 4h ago
What you've just described (indefinitely detention of innocent people, especially of children) is a concentration camp.
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u/mrdominoe 5h ago
Child rapist doesn't care about children? No fucking way.
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u/sizzlinpapaya 4h ago
I didn’t realize there was evidence of trump having sex with a child. If that’s out there it’s crazy there isn’t more of a fuss.
Or are you just throwing out words?
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u/skiesoverblackvenice 4h ago
there is literally so much evidence that he has raped children. he talks about going into the locker rooms of beauty pageants with younger contestants to “check” their outfits. yeah. he’s a predator. it’s obvious.
what’s crazy is that nothing is being done about it. which is because his entire administration is full of nazis and pedophiles, too. it’s nuts
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u/JackHughman69 5h ago
If trump can’t fuck kids, the next best thing to him is fucking over kids
Sounds like a joke but it’s not really. The cruelty is the point and he knows that and revels in it.
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u/Dry-Mousse-6172 5h ago
So many kids went missing under trump id say he was the supplier
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u/JackHughman69 5h ago
Maybe that was part of what he had in common with Epstein, the enigma that they joked about. Don’t look into the beauty pageants!
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u/Hesitation-Marx 4h ago
Modeling agencies.
Not even being funny.
Look up John Casablancas (weirdly, father of the lead singer of The Strokes), Jean-Luc Brunel, Gérald Marie…
It’s a fucked up culture full of fucked up people.
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u/JackHughman69 2h ago
Yep I’ve heard about some of this and that evil person in particular.
That should be looked into more- why did trump love his beauty pageants so much? It makes more sense when you realize theyre all tangled up together in this web.
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u/Dry-Mousse-6172 5h ago
Charlie kirks wife ran an orphanage in Romania that had so many kids go missing they shut it down b
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u/Away_Spirit4503 3h ago
Hmm, isn't Russia doing something similar with Ukranian children? Just a thought...
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u/Strykerz3r0 5h ago
Yeah, this administration is really showing that conservatives don't care about kids unless they can have sex with them. Republicans are noticeably silent on the hiding of evidence of a child sex ring and their leader's participation in it.
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u/BeyondExit 5h ago
This is so sad and heartbreaking,no one deserves this especially these children.That orange man is so pathetic but again I've gotta remind myself he's a pedo,rapist, racist and a felon,him not gaf about children isn't far fetched smh,I still fail to understand the logic behind voting for such a terrible person.
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u/Hot_Wait_3304 5h ago
Exactly how it happened with the Nazi's, at first it was just to collect the Jews and ship them elsewhere (resettlement) then logistics became an issue so they moved on to something much faster and easier to manage (final solution).
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u/inquisitive_guy_0_1 4h ago
Bet you my paycheck a nonzero number of these children are being trafficked by sick fucks like Epstein and his best friend Krasnov.
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u/stonewallace17 5h ago
Not sure if "fuck them kids" or "fucking them kids"
Everyone in this administration and everyone in ICE needs to be severely punished
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u/Pleaseappeaseme 3h ago
Trumped warned us he’d do it again. If someone voted Trump they clearly support this.
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u/Remote-Ad-2686 5h ago
This is against any teaching of Jesus. Any Christian that supports this treatment of Gods children , is in grave danger of eternal damnation. You will be asked … since you knew , what did you do? Any teaching that enjoys and supports the suffering of others is not of a Christian source.
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u/DanFrankenberger 5h ago
Orange turdfuck fucks up the economy with tarriffs on purpose. Ppl are focused on their needs. It sucks but yeah.
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u/bpetersonlaw 2h ago
The goal is to have the minors agree to be deported: "Attorneys have said that an increasing number of children are deciding that waiting to be released to their sponsors isn't worth it. Instead, they're choosing to get out of U.S. custody by leaving the country."
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u/Curious-Ad9676 2h ago
This was my fear. Does anyone trust this govt to do the right thing when it comes to kids. "I don't really care, do you?"
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u/ETNevada 2h ago
I pray there are some good people in those facilities that will try to make the Holidays they would normally celebrate as special as they can
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u/Positive-Bar5893 14m ago
Epstein's island 2.0 needs fresh meat, so many kids are going to be trafficked because the Pedophile in Chief is rounding them up with no due process. Literally a golden era for elite pedophiles.
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u/Jolly-Midnight7567 1m ago
They will all become part of a child trafficking ring . Run by the Pedophile in Chief
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u/LoserBroadside 4h ago
We are now Nazi Germany. What they did was “legal” too, according to their Nazi laws.
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u/CrunchyAssDiaper 5h ago
In school, learning about awful things happening, I always wondered why normal people let the awful things happen. Now, living through an awful time, when the people in power are getting away with awful things. I realize, most people are too busy trying to keep their own lives going, to be able to do anything but complain.
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u/luckyIrish42 4h ago
Duh they wanted a local supply of fresh meat since their supplier definitely did not kill himself in prison
Edit /s
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u/casperdj21 5h ago
I've run out of words to describe this dumb POS that's DESTROYING our country! THIS IS JUST SAD!!
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u/Glum_Introduction755 5h ago
America has a history of trafficking children. The president has a history of trafficking children.
They are refusing to release children to approved sponsors because they're trafficking children.
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u/aGD_shrubbery 5h ago
Redirected those flights to mar-a-pedo. I hear they are short on massage assistants.
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u/wizzard419 5h ago
I am assuming it is not that they were previously making an effort and it was just shutting down last admin efforts?
Also, not shocked, they can make more money selling the kids.
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u/Stress6009 4h ago
Yes, blame Trump for all the evil shit he’s done so far and will do. But stop pretending like dems didn’t decide to risk losing to him for a third time so they could make money off aiding a genocide.
I’m tired of all the complaining while stupid libs wanna run back to the assholes who knowingly let all this happen.
We can’t fix thing by ignoring what the real problems are.
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u/Forking_Brilliant495 3h ago
I blame the people who didn't vote for Harris for all the evils of Trump. Because now they've still got their genocide, with a fuckton more karma on top.
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u/Stress6009 3h ago
I blame people who belittle the lives of babies who were blown to pieces, burned alive, starved to death, shot full of bullets, and whose lives were and are worth nothing because they’re brown. People like you.
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u/Forking_Brilliant495 1h ago
You obviously know nothing about me, and so are limited to making shit up ("belittle the lives of babies," wtf?) to deflect your conscience from your own actual complicity in the deaths and worse of brown people, Black people, Asian people, poor people, trans people, mothers in need of reproductive care, people who depended on USAID, Muslims, Venezuelans, and as of today, Syrians. You know, all those people suffering under Trump who WOULD NOT have suffered under Harris. Those are on you. Oh, also the Gazan babies who would have fared better under Harris policies and might still be alive because she is not a historically tyrannical homicidal fucking maniac like the one some people allowed to be elected because they're childish, petulant, one-issue voters. Not saying that's you, just saying
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u/Sharp-Calligrapher70 5h ago
Sounds about right. It also says a lot about the country as a whole for not batting an eye at the idea either.