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White House Drafts Plan to Keep Migrant Families Unified in Detention


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Progressives are denouncing a draft border-protection plan that would keep Central American adult migrants in border detention with their children for 20 days after they cross the border.

The 20-day plan is being developed as migrants, cartel smugglers, and pro-migration groups have collectively pushed the cross-border flow to a record level of 16,500 parent-and-child border-crossers in September. The plan will likely spur pre-election protests by pro-migration Democrats, was sketched in a Washington Post report:

One option under consideration is for the government to detain asylum-seeking families together for up to 20 days, then give parents a choice — stay in family detention with their child for months or years as their immigration case proceeds, or allow children to be taken to a government shelter so other relatives or guardians can seek custody.

Most of the “families” consist of a parent with one or more children, which are carried north to help the adults exploit legal loopholes. The Post continued:

While some inside the White House and DHS are concerned about the “optics” and political blowback of renewed separations, Miller and others are determined to act, according to officials briefed on the deliberations. There have been several high-level meetings in the White House in recent weeks about the issue.

The [President Donald] Trump administration believes it is on solid legal ground, according to two officials, in part because U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw, who ordered the government to reunite separated families in June, approved the binary-choice approach in one of his rulings.

Pro-migration progressives instantly complained about the plan to keep parents and children together in detention. They are complaining even though many of those progressives — and Democratic legislators — have denounced migrants’ “family separations” since May. Politico reported:

“We believe detaining families who are not a flight risk or danger is unlawful, and will cause yet more harm to children,” said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents separated parents in the San Diego case.

A prominent pro-migration immigration lawyer, David Leopold, theatrically described the draft policy as a “horror.”

Trump getting ready to restart the horror of #FamilySeparation. https://t.co/FQOXRo9l5t

— David Leopold (@DavidLeopold) October 12, 2018

 

The Post described the 20-day plan as the “binary choice” plan.

The 20-day plan would likely help agency officials process migrants’ legal claims faster, and likely slow the catch-and-release of job-seeking migrants with children. It would also weaken the “family separation” narrative which pro-migration progressives successfully used to end Trump’s zero-tolerance policy in May and June.

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Trump is a racist...for trying to be fair?

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