Trump administration weighs new family separation effort at border

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Source: Washington Post

The White House is actively considering plans that could once again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States, according to several administration officials with direct knowledge of the effort.

One option under consideration would detain asylum-seeking families together until a 20-day deadline for releasing children kicks in. Then parents would be given a choice: Stay in family detention with your child for months or years as your immigration case proceeds, or allow them to be taken to a government shelter for unaccompanied migrant children so that other relatives or guardians can seek custody.

Senior administration officials say they are not planning to revive the chaotic forced separations carried out by the Trump administration in May and June, which spawned an enormous political backlash and led to a court order to reunite families.


But they feel compelled to do something to appease the president’s intensifying frustration over border security. Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller is advocating for toug measures because he believes the springtime separations worked as an effective deterrent illegal crossings.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/trump-administration-weighs-new-family-separation-effort-at-border/2018/10/12/45895cce-cd7b-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

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1. Supreme Court, Kavanagh argued that govt could jail immigrants indefinitely for smallest crimes

Gorsuch was more moderate than Kavanaugh the other day on that subject

So if setting foot over border illegally is a crime, then they could jail parents indefinitely, and send kids elsewhere.

At Immigration Argument, Justice Kavanaugh Takes Hard Line
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/us/politics/kavanaugh-immigration-supreme-court-case.html

The question in the case was whether the federal authorities must detain immigrants who had committed crimes, often minor ones, no matter how long ago they were released from criminal custody. Justice Kavanaugh said a 1996 federal law required detention even years later, without an opportunity for a bail hearing.

“What was really going through Congress’s mind in 1996 was harshness on this topic,” he said.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer pressed the point, asking a lawyer for the federal government whether it could detain “a person 50 years later, who is on his death bed, after stealing some bus transfers” without a bail hearing “even though in this country a triple ax murderer is given a bail hearing.” The lawyer, Zachary D. Tripp, hedged, and Justice Gorsuch grew frustrated.

“Mr. Tripp, we’re quibbling,” Justice Gorsuch said. “Justice Breyer’s question is my question, and I really wish you’d answer it.”

[DonViejo]

2. K & R

[keithbvadu2]

3. Child trafficking pays well for Trump's friends who run Trump's cages.

[Dave Starsky]

4. I'm sure that orange bastard is getting his cut, too

Which is why he has such a raging tiny mushroom hard-on for this monstrous policy.

[BlueIdaho]

5. The world would be a much better place without Stephen Miller.

Just an observation...