What is occurring is an admitted cruel deterrent so people think twice about trying to come here.
In March 2017, Reuters reported:
"Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children."
And, no, Obama didn't do it too.
According to Peter Margulies, immigration law and national security law professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, under Obama, families were detained together, sent back immediately or paroled into the country.
Then Trump came to town.
Margulies explained:
"The policy has ramped up substantially with the new administration. Making that a staple of immigration policy is a new feature."
So if it wasn't the previous administration's policy, and it clearly isn't working, why is the Trump administration so intransigent about it?
Follow the money.
The facilities in which asylum seekers are being held are government-contracted but privately run.
Former Trump Chief of Staff, John Kelly, announced in May he would be joining the board of Caliburn International, the company that owns Comprehensive Health Services Inc., responsible for operating a massive migrant prison facility in Homestead, Fla., the nation's largest.
A Sludge review of contract data found since Donald Trump became president, the federal government spent nearly $3.8 billion on ongoing grants and contracts related to "unaccompanied alien children" (UAC).
The majority of these grants originated from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responsible for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which manages the UAC program.
Much of the money went toward nonprofit shelter organizations like the Texas-based Southwest Key Programs ($1.5 billion) and the New York-based Cayuga Home for Children ($114 million).
Some HHS and ICE contracts applied to for-profit businesses like the security firm MVM ($213 million) and Comprehensive Health Services ($292 million) for transportation, health care, tent construction, and other services.
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