the New York Times on Trumps Retreat on Child Parent Separation
From Thursday June 21 2018 articles
The President caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed
an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period.
This policy was a cruel piece of Trump's response to a surge in border crossings.
Right now it is likely that the administration is scrambling to find facilities where the families could be detained but even that is uncertain as there is
an earlier court ruling dated back to 1997 that prohibits immigration authorities from keeping children in detention, even if they are with their parents for more than 20 days.
The administration is an untenable situation
< check out Homeland Security's statistics? Monthly apprehensions at the border>
Judge Dolly Gee of Federal District Court in Los Angeles, the daughter of immigrants from China, will rule on Whether Trump can detain families together after 20 days of time. This ruling is not abundantly clear in the context as reported
as such that the Federal Government will have to release all families perhaps though that seems unlikely..
'We are keeping a very powerful border, and it continues to be a zero tolerance, we have a zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally.
"The border's just as tough, but we do want to keep families together"
The President furious about the pummeling he has taken in the news media in recent days, began casting about for a solution to the politically damaging situation.
The country still awaits a comprehensive immigration bill …. but jumping into Guy thought.. What we are awaiting is a comprehensive look at why there are such an abundance of refugees and find a new approach, a comprehensive approach that does deal with this crisis. It's a Global Crisis of poverty of many and great wealth of the few. It's a Global Crisis of corrupt governments. It's an Global Crisis of endemic violence that we as a nation bare responsibility for… Culturally, Militarily and Economically. It's an issue of a Human Population that is overflowing the banks of what might be said is The River of the Community of Life .. …..
