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Smarkil posted...

So releasing someone with the expectation that they'll come back for a court appearance rarely ever works. The Trump administration, immigration being one of their main campaign promises, is cracking down on ineffective immigration policies. This doesn't seem illogical. The practice of this might be flawed, but the principle of it doesn't appear to be.

I agree that catch-and-release is a flawed system, but if the alternative is gross violation of human rights and incarcerating children, then I'd rather go with the flawed catch-and-release method.

When I said people were being treated the same way, I meant they were being treated like cattle (IE placed in cages with mats and space blankets). This isn't something that changed under the Trump administration. People were already being treated like that since at least as far back as 2014. Possibly earlier.

Normally, when people are put into cages with space blankets, it's a temporary situation and they do everything they can to get those detainees into better accommodations if they are to remain detained.

But yes, those minors were unaccompanied. These ones aren't. If we had the option of immediately deporting these people to their country of origin, children included, this wouldn't be a problem. But apparently that's unconscionable too. So what choice do you leave the administration? Apparently the only option is to just say 'fuck it' and let them in the country.

That was part of my previous point. We did have a means to expedite the deportations process... if they kept the families together. The moment you remove the children, they then become unaccompanied minors and the process becomes much more complicated from a legal standpoint. Trump's policy created more issues than it was solving.
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