It is a migratory mess. The Trump regime's "zero tolerance" policy of separating migrant children from their parents has not only been a disaster; it is barbaric.

Although Trump claims to have stopped the policy, there are children still separated and unaccounted for. According to a report published in The Intercept (7/01/2018), having children forcibly removed from one group of people to another is considered genocide if we look at the United Nation's standards. There is not only the heartbreak both the parents and the children feel from the separation, some children have been put up for adoption to U.S. families. This has the potential to take away the child's awareness to his/her language, culture, and the loss of his/her identity. Call it forced assimilation. According to The Intercept report, the Daily Beast reported that a Guatemalan woman was threatened with one year of jail time and her daughter taken away to be adopted if the woman pursued her asylum appeal.

The laws and policies affecting migrant children have been akin to a detective trying to solve a mystery. When a child is separated from his/her parents, there is the potential for the child to be put up for adoption. That's when a custody battle is suppose to ensue. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has apparently stonewalled the process of migrant parents trying to find out about custody proceedings for their children even though it has a directive in place to communicate such information. The problem is ICE isn't required to honor the rights of migrant parents. The Intercept report quoted Suzan Song, head of George Washington University's child and psychiatry division: "With this policy, the focus is really on the separation part and it seems there's very little planning or foresight about the complex processes for family tracing and reunification that has to happen." When it comes down to it, the Trump regime didn't create a plan to bring parents and children back together.

On the contrary, children are locked into what could be called prison camps, with no determination on when they can be free again and reunited with their parents.

Bethany Christian Services, located in Michigan, is an agency that has allegedly put migrant children up for adoption. When questioned about it, Bethany Christian Services denied this and says it's more concerned with reuniting children with their parents. But there also have been allegations that Bethany Christian Services' practices have involved coercion and deception when dealing with birth parents. The report quoted Kimberly McKee, a Grand Valley University professor and assistant director of Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network: "Bethany Christian Services is laying the groundwork to turn these children into adoptable objects–transformed into disciplined bodies acceptable to white America."

And that's what it comes down to: putting these children up for adoption especially for white families will have them thinking like an "American." That is, to have right-wing "values" instilled into them. Although this is unlikely for the undocumented migrant children as a whole, those few who are brought up in conservative families will be taught to embrace right-wing causes.

But the most important thing is for those children to be reunited with their birth parents. The courts should aggressively pursue this. The Trump regime has no excuse to let this migratory mess go on any further.