(June 20, 2018 at 5:47 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: You still are missing the point, nobody is arguing illegal immigrants should not be detained or expelled, they are arguing that separating the children from the parents is unnecessary and cruel.
This is the part where people don't understand what's happening. The trick is you usually have to make it all the way to the bottom of a long article to find it, if it's even included. When you hear Trump blames democrats, this is what he's referring to.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383...the-border
A two-decade-old court settlement, the Flores settlement, and a law called the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act both specify how the government must treat migrant children.
They require that migrant children be placed in "the least restrictive environment" or sent to live with family members. They also limit how long families with children can be detained; courts have interpreted that limit as 20 days.
So the legal options for the government are:
1) Release the family into the US and give them a court date. A date many just won't show up to.
2) Detain until the court date, which means you have to split up the family, because only the adults can be detained for that long.
