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It is still happening: Report reveals migrant family separations continue under Biden.

The reality is, regardless if the separations were "calculated and deliberate" or the "result of bureaucratic processes, lack of transparency and accountability", the separations are still happening. The "bureaucratic processes, lack of transparency and accountability" is the direct result of a complete lack of empathy from the administration, and a total disregard for the lives of these migrants. It doesn't matter if the cruelty is "purposeful" or the result of "indifference", It's still cruelty. "Indifference" can be "calculated and deliberate". Is the cruelty at play here opaque or transparent? That's the real question. The Biden administration's "indifference" is absolutely opaque cruelty.

To do nothing would show your hand, to do almost nothing gives you cover.

They aren't technically in cages anymore so there isn't the press coverage. Things are still pretty terrible. Instead there are the open air holding camps that the Border Patrol is funneling people into. Camps that children are starving and freezing in. And once children do get processed, they are still separated from their families and no one is doing any real checks on the people they are being sent to. It is likely that a large number of migrant children have been victims of labor trafficking.

With the government struggling at the time to place children in safe homes, one caseworker said supervisors were warned that adoption attempts by some sponsors may indicate children were at risk because the sponsor was trying to take on at least a half-dozen children, a common indicator of labor trafficking. For instance, workers discovered that purportedly different guardians living at several addresses in one U.S. city had ties back to the same person, documents show. That suggested one sponsor was recruiting children for work, they said.