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This can't be the first you're hearing about this...
Remember back in January when the president declared an emergency and everyone laughed? Remember when half the country wanted to build infrastructure to keep people out? Remember how these ideas were scoffed not only for their effectiveness but their lack of necessity?
Remember months ago when military, and all sorts of DHS agencies, and volunteers were called in and people called it unnecessary? Remember when mayors of border cities and governors were declaring states of emergency?? Yeah....everyone dismissed it. Well not everyone, but about half of the population.
Now you're concerned about it and trying to lay blame? Where were you when half the population wanted to stop this from happening???
Were you listening to all sides, looking at the facts, and deciding what was true??? Or were you just believing what you wanted to?
There's plenty of blame to go around....but it doesn't seem like it should fall on those who wanted to prevent this. If you aren't willing to put a stop to illegal immigration, you are allowing this catastrophe to happen.
I definitely heard about the problem at the border early on and commented here about Trump's family separation policy. .
Did you read the article in the OP? Apparently not.
Perhaps this would help?
Feds tell 9th Circuit: Detained kids ‘safe and sanitary’ without soap
The Trump administration argued in front of a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells, despite a settlement agreement that requires detainees be kept in “safe and sanitary” facilities......
The settlement at issue came out of Jenny Lisette Flores v. Edwin Meese, filed in 1985 on behalf of a class of unaccompanied minors fleeing torture and abuse in Central America.
Finally agreed upon in 1997, the settlement established guidelines for the humane detention, treatment and release of minors taken into federal immigration custody. The guidelines include the right to a bond hearing and requirements that immigration authorities timely release children to parents or guardians and place those not released in facilities that meet certain standards. The facilities are supposed to be “safe and sanitary.”
The settlement landed back in court in 2015, when class members moved to enforce it following the Obama administration’s announcement that it would scrap bond hearings because they conflicted with newer immigration laws. In legal filings, the class contended the elimination of bond hearings and dirty and dangerous conditions at short-term holding facilities operated by the Border Patrol violated the agreement.
There is an independent monitor who per the decision to ensure compliance.The settlement at issue came out of Jenny Lisette Flores v. Edwin Meese, filed in 1985 on behalf of a class of unaccompanied minors fleeing torture and abuse in Central America.
Finally agreed upon in 1997, the settlement established guidelines for the humane detention, treatment and release of minors taken into federal immigration custody. The guidelines include the right to a bond hearing and requirements that immigration authorities timely release children to parents or guardians and place those not released in facilities that meet certain standards. The facilities are supposed to be “safe and sanitary.”
The settlement landed back in court in 2015, when class members moved to enforce it following the Obama administration’s announcement that it would scrap bond hearings because they conflicted with newer immigration laws. In legal filings, the class contended the elimination of bond hearings and dirty and dangerous conditions at short-term holding facilities operated by the Border Patrol violated the agreement.
Could it be that the Trump administration is balking at the need to comply with a court decision?
Seems so.
More to help:
Reno v. Flores - Wikipedia
The original decision was made in 1993 and upheld in 2015.
The argument by the Trump administration was made a few days ago - that is why it is brought up now.
I honestly wonder if folks read any of the articles.
Is it honestly okay to deny soap and toothbrushes and towels etc to children?
Don't they need to wash their hands after using the bathroom? Shouldn't they be able to take a bath or shower at least once a week? What if it is a small child who soils himself, being cared by an 8 year old? It is disgusting that folks think that is just fine.
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