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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Secret DHS report highlights failures of Trump’s family separation policy

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The policy is over, but many kids continue to be separated from their parents.

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm James Helmin from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

0:06.3

202 for Tuesday October 2nd. In today's news, the FBI expands its probe of Brett Kavanaugh, at least a little.

0:17.0

President Trump oversells what his new trade deal does.

0:20.0

And the US and China have a close encounter in the South China scene.

0:25.0

But first, the big idea.

0:29.0

An unpublished report from the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General

0:33.8

has concluded that President Trump's family separation policy was even more

0:38.0

flawed from the outset than previously understood. The review, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Post, found at least

0:45.3

860 migrant children were left in Border Patrol holding cells longer than the 72-hour

0:52.4

limit mandated by US federal courts.

0:55.0

One minor was confined for 12 days and another for 25.

1:00.0

The investigators describe a poorly coordinated interagency process that left distraught parents with little or no knowledge about their children's whereabouts.

1:09.0

Based on observations conducted by DHS inspectors at multiple facilities along the border in late June,

1:16.3

the report says agents were separating children from their parents who were too young to talk.

1:22.0

They say this courted disaster.

1:25.2

Now, Trump has backed off from the zero tolerance policies, he called it,

1:29.0

but hundreds of kids continue to be separated from their parents

1:32.3

months later.

1:33.0

And the immigration wars continue at the local level.

1:36.0

ICE is encountering fierce pushback from activists and communities across the country.

1:41.0

Immigration advocates and

1:43.1

grassroots groups have little leverage to counter the Trump

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