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    Trump signs executive action halting family separations

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...s-aides-655498

    "Only the Democrats can fix this problem!" I guess not. (Headline says he signed the order- the quote from Trump says he WILL sign one).

    President Donald Trump signed an executive action Wednesday that ends the administration’s policy of separating migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, abandoning the president’s previous stance that only Congress can fix the problem.

    “The Republicans want security and insist on security for our country. And we will have that,” Trump said during a meeting at the White House earlier in the day with lawmakers and officials. “At the same time, we have compassion and want to keep families together. It’s very important. I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that.”

    He added that he hopes his action will be “matched by legislation.”

    The action came after Trump and his team faced harsh criticism from lawmakers, activists, religious leaders and former first ladies over the separation of children from their parents in custody, which was panned almost universally as cruel and damaging to the kids’ well-being.

    It was a remarkable shift from a president who is typically reluctant to bow to outside pressure. He often doubles down on his existing stance when confronted with criticism.

    With cable news flashing images of migrant children held in cages and lawmakers’ offices facing a flood of angry phone calls, the president was under increased pressure to come up with a speedy solution. White House aides came to the conclusion on Wednesday that Congress was unlikely to act quickly to resolve the crisis, even though they sent signals that Trump would be willing to sign a narrow, stand-alone fix without other immigration-related provisions.

    The decision to end the separation policy via executive action appeared to have happened quickly, and some in the White House were left in the dark. Key members of the White House legislative affairs team, which had been working with Hill lawmakers in a bid to find a legislative fix, were left out of the loop and hadn't seen text of the executive action as of early Wednesday afternoon, according to two people familiar with the issue.

    Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Justice Department officials went to the White House Wednesday morning to work with administration lawyers to draft the order. The action will direct the Department of Homeland Security to keep families together and will instruct the Department of Defense to help house the families because many of the detention centers are at capacity, according to a person familiar with the matter.

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions was slated to go to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to brief lawmakers on the administration’s plans.
    More at link.

    One possibly unintended side effect of the policy of separating parents from children is that they no longer qualified for "fast track" in determining if they qualified for asylum in the US or were to be deported. Instead of weeks it could now take months or even years to process- and add to the growing backlog of cases needing to be processed while being locked up at taxpayer expense. One estimate put that cost at over $50k a year per person.
    Last edited by Zippyjuan; 06-20-2018 at 01:37 PM.



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    oh Zippy, trying to be sooo responsible with the public Treasury

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post

    "Only the Democrats can fix this problem!" I guess not. (Headline says he signed the order- the quote from Trump says he WILL sign one).
    Actually, thanks to a liberal judge ruling from two decades ago, Trump can only reunite the children for 20 days. After that, he will have to return them to child only detention. There is no way to fix this problem without passing legislation along the lines of the Cruz or Meadows proposals.

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    I'm following a few "Resistance" people on Twitter. You'd think they'd be thrilled since they pretty much won on this issue. Instead their heads are spinning since they don't have an issue/Hitler Monster to campaign on for their blue wave thingy.
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    Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been talking to members of Congress about using DNA testing to verify whether children crossing the southern U.S. border are biologically related to adults they arrive with, or if they are being smuggled into the country by human traffickers, Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council.

    “Sessions is talking to congressional members and is hoping for a legislative fix,” Perkins said, adding that the DOJ would like to see “just, fair and enforceable” immigration policies. To that end, “They are looking at how to use DNA tests in the field to verify they are parents and not traffickers," according to Perkins.

    “The reality is if American parents put their kids through what these immigrant parents have done to their kids, they would be charged with child abuse.” -Tony Perkins
    Sessions told Perkins “We know for a fact that a lot of adults taking children along are not related to them. [They] could be smugglers. They could be human traffickers. It’s a very unhealthy dangerous thing and it needs to end. We need to return to a good lawful system,” Sessions told Perkins on his broadcast.

    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ine-biological
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    This may force Trump to start releasing more immigrants since the law only allows kids to be locked up for 20 days if he is going to lock them up with their parents. So he would like to be able to lock kids up "indefinitely".

    https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/62106...-at-the-border

    A 2015 court order, based on a document called the Flores settlement, prevents the government from keeping migrant children in detention for more than 20 days. Trump has instructed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ask the federal court to modify that agreement in order to allow children, and by extension, unified families, to be kept in detention without time limit.
    It will require more of your tax dollars to build more facilities to house them in as well.

    The request asks, specifically, for permission from the courts "to detain alien families together throughout the pendency of criminal proceedings for improper entry or any removal or other immigration proceedings."

    Trump also calls for branches of his administration to make facilities available for detaining families with children — and calls on the Defense Department, to build new facilities "if necessary."

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    Uh. Just deport them all?

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