US Government leaves migrant children in vans for up to 39 hours

NEW: As we asked "where are the children?" at least 37 were eating and sleeping overnight in vans parked outside an adult detention center, some two nights, because ICE wasn't ready to reunite them. More: https://t.co/WZWXaGDsRz @allinwithchris @JuliaEAinsley @chrislhayes #inners pic.twitter.com/G0OialpujU

- Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) June 4, 2019

Where are the children? Stuffed into vans and left to suffer.

Our nation is still failing at reuniting the migrant children we illegally, forcibly, and immorally separated from their parents.

NBC:

Under the blistering Texas sun last July, 37 migrant children boarded vans for what was supposed to be a 30-minute ride. At the end of the road from Harlingen to Los Fresnos lay the promise of hugs, kisses and long overdue reunification with their parents, from whom they were taken when the Trump administration began systematically separating migrant families who crossed the border illegally.

But when the children, all between 5 and 12 years old, arrived at Immigration and Customs Enforcement's adults-only Port Isabel Detention Center, rather than seeing their parents, they saw a parking lot full of vans just like theirs, with children from other facilities who, just like them, were waiting to be processed and reunified with their parents.

It was 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 15, 2018.

Not until 39 hours later - after two nights in a van - did the last child step out of a van to be reunited. Most spent at least 23 hours in the vehicles.