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“Mr. Speaker, yesterday's Detroit Free Press reported that two babies were taken by the Department of Homeland Security from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and flown in the dead of night last night to Grand Rapids, Michigan--one child is 8 months old, and another 11 months old--hundreds and hundreds of miles from home. Fifty more immigrant children have landed in foster care by spontaneous combustion in western Michigan. A staffer at Bethany Christian Services, which is assisting these displaced children said: ``Not only are they being separated from their family, they are being transported to a place that they don't know in the middle of the night.'' Mr. Speaker, taking children from parents presents a deep moral crisis for our Nation. The abduction of children from their parents is a crime against humanity. The Trump administration's kidnapping of children must end. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record this important article from the Detroit Free Press entitled ``Torn from Immigrant Parents, 8-Month-Old Baby Lands in Michigan.'' [From Detroit Free Press, June 20, 2018] Torn From Immigrant Parents, 8-Month-Old Baby Lands in Michigan (By Tresa Baldas) Four days ago, a Homeland Security official proclaimed: ``We are not separating babies from parents.'' Yet in the middle of the night, two baby boys arrived in Grand Rapids after being separated from their immigrant parents at the southern border weeks ago. One child is 8 months old; the other is 11 months old.…”