“But if the children cannot be separated from the parents as they await trial, both will have to be released to keep families together.”
That’s why 10 out of 12 kids coming across the border are accompanied by non-family criminal adults. They’re shields to give unfettered passage to drug dealers, human traffickers, etc.
Have the children been kidnapped by the criminals, or have their parents sold them to the criminals?
In many cases, they are sold.
Flores says the separated kids can only be held for 20 days. Trump’s exec order keeps them from being separated, therefore Flores doesn’t apply. So now the children WITH their families can be held indefinitely.