(June 20, 2018 at 2:59 pm)Chad32 Wrote:(June 20, 2018 at 10:01 am)henryp Wrote: 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.
Because our law enforcement has such a great track record of treating people in cages well. There aren't any stories about people dying in a cell from a medical emergency or dehydration as cops watch on, right?
What is the conclusion you came to based on your observation cops sometimes abuse people that are detained? We know what you don't want them doing. How should they be handling it? Just let the kids roam free in an open field while processing them? Don't detain anyone, and let them all in? There is a practical problem with a limited number of solutions. And most people find all of the solutions unacceptable, which is a luxury of being a random person on the internet.
Canada, for example, let's the parents choose whether or not their kid goes to foster care or stays in immigration jail with them. Although, it's been reported that they promote foster care, as jailing children, apparently, isn't healthy for kids psychologically either.
