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Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Betsy DeVos Adoption Agency
Patheos
Thu Feb 7, 2019
Category: U.S. News
The Trump administration says it can't reunite missing migrant children with their families; instead, many of the children are being shipped to a Christian adoption agency with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Earlier this week the Trump administration told a federal court that it would require too much effort to reunite migrant children with their parents. Associated Press reports:
"The Trump administration says it would require extraordinary effort to reunite what may be thousands of migrant children who have been separated from their parents and, even if it could, the children would likely be emotionally harmed."
According to the Associated Press report, the Trump administration is also concerned that reunification would - present grave child welfare concerns - because the children would be removed from their "sponsor" homes:
"Jonathan White, who leads the Health and Human Services Department's efforts to reunite migrant children with their parents, said removing children from 'sponsor' homes to rejoin their parents 'would present grave child welfare concerns.' He said the government should focus on reuniting children currently in its custody, not those who have already been released to sponsor homes."
The entire situation is horrific. Commenting on the horror, and expressing the feelings of many, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley tweeted: "This is what evil looks like".
As for the fate of the thousands of children the Trump administration does not want to reunite with their parents, Progressive Secular Humanist previously reported that many of the migrant children ruthlessly separated from their family by the Trump administration are being shipped to Bethany Christian Services, a Christian adoption agency with ties to the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Last year Rewire News reported on the condition of some of those children separated from their parents, linking the migrant children to Bethany Christian Services:
"Migrant children in Michigan who have been separated from their parents by the Trump administration are attending 'a special school' run by Bethany Christian Services, an anti-choice organization with a record of coercive adoption practices that has yet to receive instructions about how to reunify these children with their detained parents."
Fact checking website Snopes confirms the well established links between the DeVos family and Bethany Christian Services:
"The links between the extended DeVos family and Bethany are undeniable. Tax filings archived by ProPublica show that between 2001 and 2015, the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation (the philanthropic organization run by DeVos and her husband) gave $343,000 in grants to Bethany Christian Services.
Between 2012 and 2015, Bethany received $750,000 in grants from the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, which is run by the Education Secretary's father-in-law, the billionaire founder of Amway Richard DeVos, and his wife Helen.
Furthermore, Brian DeVos - a cousin of Betsy DeVos's husband Dick - was the Senior Vice President for Child and Family Services at Bethany as recently as 2015, and Maria DeVos - who is married to Dick DeVos's brother Doug - has served on the board of Bethany."
Democratic Underground explains the nefarious methods of the 'radical Christian adoption trafficking mill' being run by Bethany Christian Services, noting:
"They have no intention of trying to find, much less uniting parents with their children. It's a radical Christian adoption trafficking mill."
In fact, there is already in place a huge and thriving business in the trafficking of children via Christian adoption agencies like the DeVos connected Bethany. In her 2013 book, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, Kathryn Joyce documents this alarming trend of conservative Christians adopting children removed from their natural parents via nefarious means to feed the business of Christian adoption and serve the agenda of Christian theocracy.
Bottom line: The Trump administration says it can't reunite missing migrant children with their families; instead, many of the children are being funneled through Christian adoption trafficking mills like the DeVos connected Bethany Christian Services.
To repeat Senator Merkley: This is what evil looks like.
This is what evil looks like. https://t.co/YMe6KjdsPt
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) February 4, 2019
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