Review of the Department of Justice's planning and implementation of its zero tolerance policy and its coordination with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services.
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[Washington, D.C.] : Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021.
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"Evaluation and Inspections Division 21-028."
"January 2021."
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Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
Review of the Department of Justice's planning and implementation of Its "Zero Tolerance" policy for immigration offenses involving illegal entry and attempted illegal entry into the United States and its coordination with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services. The Inspector General report concluded that President Donald Trump, ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and other senior officials were woefully unprepared when U.S. agents started seizing thousands of migrant children from their asylum-seeking parents and relatives who were often imprisoned in concentration camps after entering the United States, first in a 2017 DOJ pilot program and then nationwide the following year. The report, based on interviews with dozens of DOJ officials and a review of over 200,000 emails and other electronic files, directly implicates Trump in the disastrous policy. It also found that senior administration officials were "fully aware" that the policy would result in children being separated from their families but pressed ahead with it anyway
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Online resource; title from PDF title screen (DOJ OIG web site, viewed January 15, 2021).
