https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-or...-happens-children-shelters-now-214127748.html

Trump signs order to 'address' separations, but it won't change the situation for children in shelters now

Hunter Walker
Hunter Walker
Yahoo NewsJune 20, 2018

WASHINGTON — After widespread outrage over his policy of separating children from their parents who crossed the border illegally, President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to “address family separations.” The order directs the Department of Homeland Security to “maintain custody of alien families” to the “extent permitted by law” when resources are available.

Democrats and a growing number of Republicans had called on Trump to issue such an order, but for weeks he had insisted that the policy was required by law and could only be changed by Congress. He blamed Democrats, who are in the minority in both houses, for not acting on the matter.

However, the order won’t make a difference for thousands of children who have already been taken from their families.


The spate of child separations resulted from a “zero tolerance” policy that was announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April and enacted the following month. Last week, officials announced that between April 19 and May 31 about 1,995 children were separated at the U.S. border from adults they had traveled with. By treating all illegal border crossings as crimes — a break with previous administrations — the policy meant that adults would be sent to jail and that the children who entered with them would be separated them from. While Trump suggested his order would end separations going forward, an official confirmed to Yahoo News that the children already in custody would not be immediately reunited with their families.

Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Service’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF), said the “process will proceed as usual” for the minors currently in the agency’s program. The department operates 100 shelters for migrant children in 17 states. Wolfe did not respond to a request for comment about how many children are currently in custody who have been separated from their parents.

Trump’s order states that it is “the policy of this Administration to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources.” Agencies are instructed to keep families intact during legal proceedings when children enter the U.S. accompanied by someone with whom they have a “legal parent-child relationship.” Officials are given some discretion in implementing the order, subject to the availability of resources such as suitable housing and to a determination that keeping the family together would not “pose a risk to the child’s welfare.”

The order also calls for cases involving families to be fast tracked so they can avoid lengthy detentions. It also directs the Department of Defense and other agencies to identify additional resources the government can use to house families together. In the months leading up to the announcement of the child separation facility, the government awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to companies to build and operate shelters where immigrant children could be held. Those shelters may need to be modified to hold adults.


Amid the outcry over the policy, which was fueled by pictures and recordings of toddlers crying for their parents, and parents who couldn’t find out what happened to their children, Trump and other top officials made a series of conflicting and untrue statements about the separations.

Trump repeatedly falsely blamed the situation on Democrats even though they have never pushed for a policy that would call for family separations. The administration also denied the policy was intended to deter potential illegal immigrants with the prospect of family separations, even though White House chief of staff John Kelly explicitly said he was “considering exactly that” in a 2017 television interview when he was homeland security secretary. The administration also blamed the policy on the failure of Congress to make a deal on immigration reform. And the White House also suggested a 1997 federal court decision known as the Flores agreement that requires the government to release immigrant children to families “without unnecessary delay” and to keep them in the “least restrictive conditions” possible prevented the administration from keeping families in custody together.

The executive order Trump signed on Wednesday belies his claims that he was powerless to reverse the policy. Nevertheless, the order referenced the administration’s frustration with Congress’ inability to make an immigration deal. It framed the measure as “affording Congress an opportunity to address family separation” on a permanent basis. The order also directs Attorney General Jeff Sessions to “promptly file a request with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California” to modify the Flores agreement to allow the secretary of homeland security to “detain families together” during their legal proceedings “under present resource constraints.”

As he signed the order in the Oval Office, Trump said he disliked the family separations and suggested they would end.

“I consider it to be a very important executive order. It’s about keeping families together while at the same time being sure that we have a very powerful, very strong border,” Trump said, adding, “So we’re going to have strong, very strong borders, but we’re going to keep the families together. I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.”

Update [6:31 p.m.]: This piece was updated with the HHS spokesperson’s comment about the children currently in custody.

 

What really fixes the problem is to

Remove the incentives to come here illegally in the first place
Adjudicate cases with urgency

The real criminal and inhumane problem is that it takes years to either deport or naturalize these illegal imigrants.

They should be deciding these cases in months, not years.

 

What about the people, businesses, and industries that give them jobs shootersa? What should we do about them?

 

Let me prove just how phony the Trump supporters and even worse the phonier conservatives really are. And you will be able to see it for yourselves when they can't and won't even answer the most basic questions.

What does Trump's executive order say?

Does it tend "zero tolerance"?

Is it within established laws as dictated by the courts?

And what will it do for the 2,500 kids already in custody?

And if they cannot even answer 4 basic questions then you know.

 

Stumbler has read and commented on shooters plan to revamp immigration previously.

He knows that the first step in shooters plan is to take away the incentive to come here illegally, starting with no jobs.

This country already has a program called E-verifile. It should be mandatory for every job, with Arizona type penalties for employers.

But of course stumbler ignores that cause.....shooter

 

See I told you so This ...

... has nothing to do with this.

 

https://sandiegofreepress.org/2014/09/immigration-deportation-and-family-separation/

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

 

The problem will never be "fixed" until the Democrats WANT to fix it. In case you have been living in a cave, President Trump and the Republicans offered the Democrats a bill that would take care of the "Dreamers" that was even better than they demanded. As you all know the Democrats rejected the bill.

They have no desire whatever to help the illegal immigrants. They only want to exploit them as they have exploited the black population here in the U.S.

 

He signs an executive order ending something his administration has been practicing. And you know what? If he really wanted to fix things, he would be meeting with both parties, not just the GOP behind closed doors. Since they control both houses and the White House, let's put the blame where it really belongs.

Oh, and Smitty? Don't begin to speak for the Democrats. You stereo type and you really know nothing.

 

WSJ editors bash Trump for crowing about fixing ‘a problem of his own creation’ with immigrant families

 

Trump didn't tell these people to cross the border with their children illegally... Trump didn't make the laws that have you bleeding puke liberals so ass hurt...

The fact is, these children that are in US custody are being taken care of very well. These children are now being fed properly, they are being seen by a Doctor and for many of them, it's the first time a Doctor has ever looked at them.

Their shelter, clothing and all needs are being taken care of. Something their parents were obviously unable to do....

 

Well, but lets not forget, if Clinton had won the throne, we'd be bringing these people in, releasing them and letting them stay until ................... well, until deporting them would be a hundred times more difficult.

And providing them with all the public support they would need. You know, free medical care, free education, free medical care, free legal aid, free medical care ..................

Stuff our own kids in foster care get. Sort of.

 

I don't agree. Old fashioned, check in the mail, welfare ended in the 90s, for the most part. In its place we have TANF (temporary aid for needy families) which is TEMPORARY and is only available to US citizens and immigrants who are here lawfully. The same goes for SNAP, Medicaid, etc. A handful of states do provide some state funded assistance to some immigrants who otherwise would not qualify for federal aid, but not enough to live on.

https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/overview-immigrants-eligibility-snap-tanf-medicaid-and-chip

If they want to cut down on illegal immigration, they need to come down HARD on the employers who hire them, the landlords who rent them apartments, etc. Until Congress passes those laws, the people will keep coming. Write your Senator and Representative about it, but don't hold your breath.

 

Well, but if they go to the emergency room they get treated, not turned away. And they do NOT pay for the services.
They can get some aid because they were "caught and released".

You and I agree, severe penalties for companies hiring Illegal immigrants, as well as for the Illegal immigrant would go a long way towards stopping illegal immigration.

The problem is, catch and release gives them semi legal status, as in a green card, which means they can legally apply for and accept work.

That needs to be changed.

 

There is most certainly a problem with them working.
They come here knowing all they have to do is clear the border and say asylum please, and they are good to stay for years.

NO WORK MEANS NO WORK.

 

Why are the liberals hiring illegals? Is it because they rarely practice what they preach?

 

With a verifiable visa process growers can legally bring workers into the country and will be responsible for them leaving when the visa expires.

The cost of visas, transport, medical care and so forth would increase cost, but not by that much.

Theoretically, with lowered demand on government services we would see a reduction in taxes, but then the govt. Robbers would get involved....

 

If they wouldn't bring there kids to the border , and throw them across.
They would not get separated.
Now The problem has been solved they all get arrested together ,the whole entire family gets arrested.
Perfect now the family is not separated.
Now the Liberals will get the blame for separating the family ,but nobody will report on that.


Here's good one For you , cross your whole family into Mexico set up camp and see how long Mexico allows you to stay there.
Try this with five family members, let 30,000 families. See what Mexico , or any other country had to say .
Let tell you so you don't have to look it up .
They will tell you get back where you came from now .

 

And once again the Republlican prove they cannot govern. Even when they control both houses of congress and the presidency.

Republicans push vote for key immigration bill into next week

 

russian whore aka fisted lady meania skanks choice of clothing while visiting the kids her shit bag of a husband is locking up and denying basic human dignities only serves to prove that she has no class nor decency not even base fucking humanity
giving that she has no shame i will finally do what was asked long ago