Number
180486
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
COMMON COUNCIL
Title
Substitute resolution urging the President and U.S. Congress to develop a policy to reunite the children and parents who were separated when they were detained while crossing the border between the United States and Mexico.
Analysis
This resolution urges the President of the United States and U.S. Congress to develop a policy to reunite the children and parents who were separated when they were detained while crossing the border between the United States and Mexico. This resolution further opposes both the policy and action of having separated children from their parents.
Body
Whereas, The media has released audio recordings of children, locked in cages, crying and screaming for their parents, from whom they have been separated by the U.S. government; and
Whereas, Some of the children are as young as breastfeeding infants; and
Whereas, Guards have been documented mocking the cries of the children; and
Whereas, Workers at the facilities where the children are kept have been instructed not to comfort the children; and
Whereas, In some instances, the children have been instructed not to hug one another or to offer similar comfort, and some siblings have been separated; and
Whereas, Many people can remember the experience of being temporarily separated from parents while very young children, and feeling the fear and uncertainty of the unknown whether they will be reunited with their parents, and that moment is only temporary until the parents are located just around the corner; and
Whereas, The separation is not as fleeting for these children separated by the U.S. government, as some estimates are that these children may go weeks, months, years, or even permanently without seeing their families; and
Whereas, The numbers of separated children have been estimated as at least 2,000 and rising; and
Whereas, Some of the children have already been lost in the system; and
Whe...
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