Thread by @thememoryhole2

1/ So, the policy of automatic separation /appears/ to be over.

Which means that parents & kids will be held together in shadowy detention facilities that get little or no outside oversight.

I've filed bunches of FOIA requests with multiple agencies to get a glimpse inside.

2/ And remember: The Office of Refugee Resettlement at Health & Human Services is running an entirely separate system of facilities for children who show up to the border unaccompanied. (The converted Wal-Mart at Brownsville TX is the most famous example.)

3/ The ORR facilities started taking in immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents, but that was a recent development. The primary reason they exist is to detain minors who come to the US by themselves.

Anyway, I have FOIA requests in with ORR & HHS too.

4/ And there are other agencies involved in detainment now, including the Defense Department and the federal prison system (overseen by the Bureau of Prisons), so I'll be FOIAing them.

5/5 Some of these requests have been in for a while, I filed others over the last week, and I'll be filing more today, tomorrow, and on and on...

I'll be posting the resulting documents to my website altgov2.org and announcing them here (and on FB).

#transparency