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So here we are twenty-four hours later....
Trump, who said he couldn't fix this, signed an executive order that... Only made things worse. The kids currently separated from their parents, well, fuck them, they remain separated. Moving forward, children will be detained with their parents... in Jail. Of course, because the Justice Department is run by Jeff Sessions, it never occurred to anyone in the White House that this comes into conflict with the 1996 law President Clinton signed, and the resulting "Flores Settlement" Supreme Court Judgement which states "place each detained minor in the least restrictive setting appropriate" - meaning not jail. I believe it's also a legal requirement that children not be held more than twenty days, and in most cases we are way past that.
Dunno.
The problem with the White House and the Trump administration is that they are doing all of this without any planning at all. They want to prosecute EVERYONE who comes to the United States illegally. That's a great idea, but they didn't think it through. Every month the United States arrests and deports from 40k to 70k people (or more). Normally we deport them as quickly as possible because it's expensive to detain, house, and feed tens of thousands of people. So now the Trump Administration wants to prosecute all of these people, which means pushing through the court system. They might not be Americans, but this is in fact America, and people here have rights - even when they are not American and illegally in the country. So now we need attorneys to prosecute them, plus other attorneys to represent them.... Again, keep in mind we are talking about - at a minimum - tens of thousands of people. (Some months the US arrests deports over 100k people!) Now the immigration court system is instantly backed up, and we have tens of thousands of people waiting for court dates. We have to detain them, house them, feed them, give them clothes, and give them - lol - free healthcare.
Then imagine the lawsuits that will come out of all of this.
There is a reason in the past we deport them as quickly as possible - it's fucking too expensive to do anything else.
The Justice Department put out the call last night for the US military to house these people. Because, you know, we want the US military involved in detaining civilians. You already know that isn't going to work out well - lawsuits will fly, someone will die in custody, some child will be molested, someone will get hurt.... The Trump Administration isn't thinking about this at all.
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