Note : Deportations don’t count.
Hopefully this is the most bumped thread over the next 4 years (or it just gets bumped once when he shuts it all down)
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Dems are terrible at messaging. This will probably happen quietly and not make the news. But maybe I’m wrong.
I hope this works out better than the Guantanamo thread.
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Obama is already working on gaslighting people as to who built the cages and put undocumented immigrants in there so yeah it’s going to be an uphill battle. I mean it’s pretty big business “housing” all these “law-breakers”
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1331585639666638855?s=21
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Bump
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That’s good. 25 down, 69975 remaining asylum seekers still waiting in Mexico.
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lol from the article
Six weeks into Biden’s presidency, advocates are frustrated that his administration has continued to detain families and expel them from the border under a public-health order. The number of detained family members more than doubled, from 228 adults and children before Biden took office to 476 last week, federal records show.
ICE emptied out the Berks center Feb. 26, releasing all 21 people there. ICE confirmed that the facility is empty but would not say why.
hmm so looks like they might’ve “released” 21 people out of the 248 they’ve added since Biden started, not sure if any are kids since the article doesn’t say
Also most families are still being expelled at the border under the Title 42 order without any due process so at least we aren’t locking up all the families
The nicer cages run by HHS and ORR are better than the ones run by Border Patrol and ICE but still fall short in many ways.
Unfortunately now it looks like we might go back to using the worse cages or just have too many kids in the nicer cages where covid risk will be increased
There are approximately 7,700 unaccompanied children in HHS care. The department has around 13,650 beds to accommodate children when not under reduced capacity.
A separate document, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, calls the situation an “extraordinary” circumstance and says “facilities should plan for and expect to have COVID-19 cases,” citing the nature of the pandemic and acknowledging “there is no 0% risk scenario.”
Even the ORR “emergency” influx shelters are not meant to keep kids for more than 72 hours because they are not made for that and because of the Flores agreement. Even though Biden says they will do that in the WaPo article I’ll believe it when I see it
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Jman get ready there’s going to be more opportunities for you to spike the football on Biden releasing people
https://twitter.com/norahodonnell/status/1369073657998376964?s=21
But they are in nicer cages guys. That’s really the best anyone can do.
I don’t even think these are the nicer cages which are run by HHS and ORR. These kids look to be stuck with CBP for now
ICE used to automatically deport felons arrested in Texas for crimes such as human smuggling. But instead, he said Tuesday, many were being released in the United States.
Tipton said he first noticed the shift a couple of weeks ago when a smuggler he had sentenced had asked to be deported home to Mexico and instead was dumped penniless on the streets of a Texas city. The man called his probation officer asking for help and they had to scramble, the judge said, to try to find him a bus ticket.
According to government documents obtained by CBS News, nearly 1,400 unaccompanied minors had been held in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) holding facilities for more than three days as of Monday, despite the agency’s legal obligation to transfer these children to shelters operated by the U.S. refugee agency within 72 hours of taking them into custody.
On February 21, CBP held just nine unaccompanied children past the three-day limit, according to one document, underscoring how the dwindling bed space at the refugee agency’s shelters has created a massive backlog of minors waiting in facilities that were largely designed to briefly detain adult men.
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Neha Desai, a lawyer representing migrant youth in U.S. government custody, said she interviewed children who said they were hungry, as well as minors who only showered once in seven days.
“Some of the boys said that conditions were so overcrowded that they had to take turns sleeping on the floor,” Desai added, citing interviews with nearly a dozen unaccompanied migrant children held at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) holding facility in Donna, Texas.
On March 2, the Donna complex was holding more than 1,800 people — 729% of its pandemic-era capacity, which is designed for 250 migrants, according to an internal CBP document reviewed by CBS News.
“We appreciate the extraordinary challenge that the government faces in undoing the damage of the prior administration’s immigration policies,” Desai said. “That said, it is deeply concerning to see young children in facilities for days on end, unable to take a shower, call their families or see the sunlight.”
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https://twitter.com/rowaida_abdel/status/1371514299429105664?s=21
Come on people, you can’t criticize them without helping them do their job!
I usually dislike that type of response, but it seems to me that the administration is working to have children placed with sponsors stateside, and the sheer volume is making it difficult to do so as quickly as the admin would like (within 72 hours).
The implicit suggestion in Psaki’s complaint is that there isn’t a reasonable way to legitimately ensure these kids’ safety while acting faster to place them safely.
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They could just, you know, not ever take them to these facilities. Sure it would cost more money but who the fuck cares when this is the alternative.
So you’re ok with taking them to any random place as a co-sponsor with zero checking to make sure that’s a safe place?
That does not seem like a good idea.
Should the feds scoop up American kids in transit to visit their families or friends and imprison them indefinitely until they can figure out whether the family or friend is safe? It’s fucking ridiculous, there is no reason for them to become involved in these kids lives at all.
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