Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today: August 6, 2018

1. Naomi Riley interviewed the head of Bethany Christian Services — on family separation, foster care, and adoption — for the Wall Street Journal this weekend. From it:

In 2013, it started placing unaccompanied alien minors with foster parents until a permanent home can be found. Although Mr. Palusky strongly opposes the Trump administration’s separation policy, he said “there was no question in my mind” that Bethany would work with the government to find homes for the kids while their situations were sorted out: “Either the kids were going to live in big-box stores or detention centers or they were going into loving foster homes.”

Meantime, Bethany’s caseworkers call around to detention centers to locate the parents. “A couple of weeks into the process, we knew where all the parents were,” Mr. Palusky says. Most of the children were able to talk to their parents on the phone. “In fact,” he adds, “we’ve been informing DHS”—the Department of Homeland Security—“where the parents are, because they haven’t always been able to find them.”

In June Mr. Palusky accompanied two boys to Phoenix to be reunited with their parents. As the car approached the detention facility, one of them saw his father lined up with his face against the wall and started yelling, “That’s my dad! That’s my dad!” Mr. Palusky recalls: “I got choked up and said, ‘I’m really sorry that you were taken apart from your dad. That’s not who we are and that’s not what we’re about, and that’s not the America that I know.’ ” As of this week, 90% of the kids in Bethany’s care have been reunited with their families.