Trump administration may seek to detain migrant families longer than previously allowed

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Devlin Barrett
June 29 at 9:51 PM

The Trump administration plans to detain migrant families together in custody rather than release them, according to a new court filing that suggests such detentions could last longer than the 20 days envisioned by a court settlement.

“The government will not separate families but detain families together during the pendency of immigration proceedings when they are apprehended at or between ports of entry,” Justice Department lawyers wrote in a legal notice to a federal judge in California who has been overseeing long-running litigation about the detention of undocumented immigrants.

The filing comes as the Justice Departments seeks to navigate two different court edicts — an injunction issued this week by a federal judge in San Diego that required the government to begin reuniting the roughly 2,000 migrant children still separated from their families, and an older court settlement in federal court in Los Angeles that requires the immigration agencies to release minors in their custody if they are held for more than 20 days.

In the weeks since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy toward immigrants illegally crossing the U.S. border, roughly 2,500 migrant children were separated from their parents. About 500 of those children have since been reunited with their parents.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-plans-to-detain-migrant-families-for-months/2018/06/29/f9ffecb6-7bf7-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html

[duforsure]

1. He's encouraged this all along

to implement his zero laws campaign against first immigrants , then anyone who opposes him in any way, or presents a threat to his power. He also was paid by the private prison industry to do this for personal profits and gains. Is he holding kids hostages for more, for Mexico and others to pay for the wall or else you lose your children now? Probably.

[bdamomma]

2. I don't

believe that 500 kids were reunited either. We need to get rid of this scum bag of fake pResident, right now I rather call him a dictator since he loves them so much.