Separated Families at the U.S. Border/Detained Children
Building a wall between
Mexico and the U.S. to stop illegal immigration in the U.S. was one of the most important
issue of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He told the U.S. citizen
that Mexico would pay for the wall, but that would not happen. Illegal
immigration rate across the U.S. and Mexico border has been retained at the
lowest point for recent years. Trump claims that the illegal immigrants are smuggling
drugs, and they are criminals; only few of them may be good people. The facts
are that many illegal emigrant into the U.S. are families with children to
escape poverty, drug cartels and threat from gangs in their own country in
order to pursue a better life. Even
though there is policy to prevent children being separated from their parents
and detained, Trump and Jeff Sessions, former U.S. Attorney General, created a ‘zero
tolerance’ immigration policy. Children have been separated from their
parents, some kept in fence - like cages, some sent to nearby asylum centers and others sent to
foster homes as far away as New York state. By March 2019 there were still tens of thousands of children separated from their parents,
several have even died due to unaddressed medical issues.
Desperate
Uncomfortable living condition
Rebellion
Why?
Links:
Video: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the Trump administration's
policy of separating immigrant children from their families.
policy of separating immigrant children from their families.
Video: The Trump administration insists that separating families is not a policy, but a
requirement of enforcing the law to prosecute adults who cross the border illegally.
requirement of enforcing the law to prosecute adults who cross the border illegally.
Article: Many people disagree with the separation policy and the detention. More than 200
institutions sign a statement in support of children and families seeking refuge in the
United States.
institutions sign a statement in support of children and families seeking refuge in the
United States.
Important Vocabulary
Word
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Definition
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Word Family
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Detained
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Keep someone from proceeding, hold back
Imprisoned
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Detain, detained, detaining
detainee, detainer, detainment, detains
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Treacherous
|
Disloyal, unfaithful, underhanded, indirect
|
Treachery,
treacherously, treacherousness
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Treks
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To
make one’s way arduously
Emigration
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Trekker, trekked, trekking
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Asylum
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Shelter, refuge, nursery
|
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Zero tolerance
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A policy
of giving the most severe punishment possible to every person who commits a
crime
No indulgence or endurance
|
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Rollback
|
Cause
to retreat or withdraw, reduction
|
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Detention
|
Detainment, confinement
Act of keeping in custody
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Detent, Détente,
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Rescind
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Cancel, Revoke, Undo
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Rescindable, Rescinded, Rescindment, Rescinding
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Stanch
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Stop the flow of a liquid
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Stanched, Stanching, Stanchion, Stanches
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Deter
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Prevent, Stop, Discourage
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Determent, Deterrence
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Prosecute
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Put on a trial, try in a court, file a legal action
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Prosecuted, Prosecution, Prosecuting
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Custody
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Detention, Confinement, Supervision, Guardianship
|
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Extortion
|
Blackmail, use of intimidation or force in order to obtain something
(money, information, right)
|
Extortive, Extorted, Extorting, Extortionate, Extortioner, Extortionist
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