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Administration will not reunite any children with parents in custody, Cabinet secretary says
msm ^ | 6/26/2018 | Jazmine Ulloa

Posted on 06/27/2018 6:00:23 AM PDT by sickoflibs

The Trump administration will not reunite any migrant children with parents still held in immigrant detention facilities unless current federal law changes first, a top administration official told Congress on Tuesday.

The statement by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whose agency currently has custody of 2.047 children separated from their parents after being apprehended crossing the border illegally, confirmed what immigrant advocates have feared: The administration will reunite children with their parents quickly only if the parents drop their claims for asylum in the U.S. and agree to be deported.

Under administration policy, immigrants claiming asylum are held in detention awaiting a hearing — a process that can often take months or years. Because current law only allows children to be held in immigrant detention facilities for 20 days, his agency would not place any of the children with parents who are in those facilities, Azar said.

"If the parent remains in detention, unfortunately, under rules that are set by Congress and the courts, they can't be reunified while they're in detention," Azar said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderwall; buildthewall; flores; immigration
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Makes sense. Flores decision.

But what about the recent court order to re-unite them that contradicts Flores?

1 posted on 06/27/2018 6:00:23 AM PDT by sickoflibs
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“...custody of 2.047 children...”

Not even three (3.000).

What happened to the other 0.953?


2 posted on 06/27/2018 6:04:01 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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If the parent has broken the law (just by crossing, but it could be for a hundred other reasons), then the child will not be paired up in some jail-house situation.

The judge is pretending that there is no charge pending with the adult-parent. If this is the second crossing, and the second apprehension (someone can correct if I’m wrong), you are now on felony charges and face real jail-time. None of that was taken into account by the judge.


3 posted on 06/27/2018 6:04:04 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: sickoflibs

Also, DNA tests to see if the claimed relations are indeed so.

Which, also has the happy byproduct of uniquely identifying said illegals forever, despite any false identities or documentation they might accumulate.


4 posted on 06/27/2018 6:04:12 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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The recent order in CA is unenforceable.


5 posted on 06/27/2018 6:04:53 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satan's finest work.)
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Too much winning... really!

Well, not too much... but this is just great:

The administration will reunite children with their parents quickly only if the parents drop their claims for asylum in the U.S. and agree to be deported.

6 posted on 06/27/2018 6:06:00 AM PDT by Principled (No one will conquer America, from within or without, until its citizenry are disarmed.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

There are only two issues in the mid-terms:

1. The strength of the U.S. economy.
2. The protection of America’s borders.

The Dems already had an uphill battle in the face of the booming economy ignited by President Trump’s policies. Now they have to face an electorate that knows that only the President has America’s back. Any pretence of Democrat “balance” on border issues has been removed by the success of the extreme open borders leftists who are winning primaries and hogging the MSM limelight.

If the Republican candidates stick to those two issues, November will see a Red surge. Stay on message. Never back down. Never apologize.


7 posted on 06/27/2018 6:08:32 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: sickoflibs

Mean old Donald ... bad old Pubs

8 posted on 06/27/2018 6:17:14 AM PDT by Zakeet (If laws could stop evil, then why are there still Clintons?)
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refugee/asylum status should just be ended, send them all back, we’ve taken more than our share already, let canada or some other country take them instead.


9 posted on 06/27/2018 6:21:29 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Good intentions? Most leftists would throw every one of us in Gulag if they could get away with it)
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I agree. Watch for the Dems to try and get abortion back on the front burner. They’ve had luck with that in the past.


10 posted on 06/27/2018 6:21:48 AM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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This is why asylum applications have gone up over 1000%, they are gaming the system.


11 posted on 06/27/2018 6:22:42 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (Good intentions? Most leftists would throw every one of us in Gulag if they could get away with it)
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If the parents decide to not take the kids, are their charges changed to human trafficking?


12 posted on 06/27/2018 6:24:10 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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Chile expells 2K illegals https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chile-to-expel-2000-illegal-migrants/ar-AAz9OdW?li=BBnbfcL


13 posted on 06/27/2018 6:27:12 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO Wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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RE:”The recent order in CA is unenforceable.”

One would think so.

I posted an article yesterday about the OK supreme court ordering the state to spend a certain minimum amount on public schools.

It implied that the court would close all OK public schools if the state didnt comply.

Could one of the courts order Catch-and-Release or no-catch if Trump admin doesnt comply?

14 posted on 06/27/2018 6:27:26 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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How many American Citizens sitting in our jails are separated from their parents?

All of them and it is a damn sight higher than 2k.

Why is anyone in their right mind listening to this BS. I think my tagline explains it.

15 posted on 06/27/2018 6:28:18 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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RE:”Why is anyone in their right mind listening to this BS”

Because Dems have been playing that tape of some kids crying “Mommy, Daddy..” on TV and cable

16 posted on 06/27/2018 6:30:53 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: Principled

Beautiful words.


17 posted on 06/27/2018 6:31:31 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: sickoflibs

Public schools wouldn’t have so many budget problems if they didn’t have so many non English speaking students.


18 posted on 06/27/2018 6:34:49 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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Follow the law, might need to remind the Californian judge of this. (1) Immediately deport families and everyone, (2) if held give choice to deport or jail (separated). Trump needs to do more to get the stats out about WHY these particular adults are jailed (e.g., previously deported). Hey, reunite the kids with parents and family in their home countries, turn them over to their home country's child services or authorities, or simply return them to Mexico and let them deal with it. THEY ARE NOT AND NEVER SHOULD BE OUR PROBLEM.

Bothers me that focus is on kids as Get Out of Jail and completely lost is that they don't belong here. HOW MANY HAVE BEEN RETURNED TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES OR TO MEXICO? Need to end letting them stay.

19 posted on 06/27/2018 6:39:45 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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” Administration vows to quickly and humanely reunite families and offers free transportation to their homes”


20 posted on 06/27/2018 6:42:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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