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RE: Stephen Colbert Rips Jeff Sessions a New Asshole
June 17, 2018 at 4:58 pm
(June 17, 2018 at 11:51 am)Mr.wizard Wrote:
(June 17, 2018 at 9:39 am)henryp Wrote: So, the problem with detention facilities, is there are legal limits to the length of time children can be kept in them. And because the system is backlogged, in the Obama administration, they'd just release the family and give them a court date. But then they would just head off into the US with no guarantee they'd come back. Which is an opportunity they wouldn't get if they tried to enter legally at the border. If they attempt legally, they either are admitted or turned away as a family.
To your point of legal border crossings resulting in families being split up, I've read that they are supposed to only do that if they feel the child is in danger, which makes sense. I'm sure there are abuses, but that's not by design.
Sessions response, is to close the loophole by charging people with entering illegally, rather than just releasing everybody and hoping they come back to court. It's a bad solution. But the alternative is also bad. But you don't have to enter the country illegally. And as I said earlier, having borders is not a controversial position. The answer is changing the laws to work better. Ideally, to more quickly have people accepted/rejected as a family as they are when applying legally.
When the Obama administration attempted to respond to the “crisis” of families and unaccompanied children crossing the border in summer 2014, it — a practice that had basically ended several years before. But federal courts stopped the administration from holding families for months without justifying the decision to keep them in detention. So most families ended up getting released while their cases were pending...
Quote:None of this addresses the problem of separating families. Yes we have borders and yes we have detention centers, there is always room for improvement in these areas but I don't see any value in taking children from their parents, it just seems cruel especially since this administration has already admitted that they are using it as a deterrent. The only way that "making the citizenship process easier" fixes the problem, is if the administration is prepared to approve large numbers of immigrants. If most immigrants are being denied then they are probably going to try and sneak in anyway and given the rhetoric being spewed by the current administration I don't see them being more accepting.
One of the things Trump was supposed to be building was a series of concentration camps to hold all apprehended illegal aliens in. Well, he's caught some illegal aliens and they are in concentration camps. Why is that a concern?
