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Part of the reason for "catch and release" is that prior administrations did not want to separate families. If you criminally prosecute people for misdemeanor entry into the country, you have to hold them, transport them to court, adjudicate them, etc. The question of what to do with their children in those circumstances is one that previous administrations have tried to figure out. Up until May of this year, people were administratively released and ordered to appear at a later date for adjudication.
In May, the DOJ abandoned "catch and release" and started prosecuting those misdemeanor cases, which resulted in the accused being separated from their children. Now that Trump has backed off of family separation, he is faced with the same dilemma of what to do with the kids while their parents are being taken into court.
Do you see the issue? As others have said, when you're arrested and taken into custody, your kids don't go with you. Are they going to continue to arrest these people and take them into custody? If so, what kind and where? The Trump administration is back at square one. If you're going to prosecute these people criminally rather than administratively, what are you going to do with the children?
I predict that they'll reinstate some sort of "catch and release" policy, but they'll call it something else.
One thing I can guarantee is that no one in the Trump administration has spent any time trying to figure this out. It's not an easy issue and the Trump administration is very light on brain power.
Or they'll pull all the stops out and start plowing through the bogus asylum claims.
Obama didn't manage to figure it out, but I bet you'll go on record saying he's a genius. At least Trump is attempting to follow the rule of law.
You'll find out in the coming days when your fellow liberals use it to block the EO.
You must be dizzy. You started out saying that Flores mandated that children be separated from their parents when it said no such thing. Now that Trump has caved to political and popular pressure from both sides of the aisle and signed an EO to stop separating families, you are desperately trying to spin this into support for your argument.
The bottom line is there is no law mandating that children be separated from their parents and if there had been, how can Trump have "fixed" it with an EO?
Dems love their criminals.
Feinstein's Frankenstein bill wouldn't let the border patrol make an arrest within 100 miles of the border. Yet she would still pay the border patrol. Maybe they could play cards all day for their pay.
I really have to wonder what her connection to the drug cartels and human trafficker's is.
That footnote does not mean that there is or ever has been a "law" mandating that children be separated from their parents when their parents are picked up on a first offense of entering the country illegally. That was your original argument, which you have not been able to support.
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