{"id":136853,"date":"2018-06-29T08:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136853"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:48:39","slug":"trumps-immigration-debacle-is-still-a-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/trumps-immigration-debacle-is-still-a-debacle.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Immigration Debacle is … still a debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Oh, he's backed off everything, hooray, on to other news!"<\/p>\n

Not quite. Because not only was his backing-off full of weasel-words, and reliant largely on the good graces of ICE and CBP, but there remain the over 2000 kids already separated from their families, and that's continuing to be a horrible, destructive mess.<\/p>\n

"Oh, but a judge has told them to fix the problem, hooray, on to other news!"<\/p>\n

Yeah, except you know<\/i> it's not going to be that simple, because the agencies involved will<\/i> appeal that order (and, hell, given how SCOTUS is headed, in the three-odd years it takes to go through the appeals cycles, they'll probably strike it down, deferring to the executive branch to handle "national security" issues as they see fit).<\/p>\n

And in the meantime<\/i> … we get stories like the one below[1], where "unaccompanied" (because they were torn from their parents) toddlers<\/i> are being brought into court for immigration hearings. Yes, they're being represented, but they can't articulate why they're here, why an asylum request is warranted, or even where the heck their parents are or what their names are. And how can they possibly be turned over to "someone" or deported "somewhere" without connecting with proper, associated adults, which is tough …<\/p>\n

… when you don't have paperwork demonstrating who these kids are.<\/p>\n

And the parents, on the other hand, even if released from custody — deported, or let go within this country — and even if they somehow manage to track down these kids, are suddenly finding that they can't even prove the kids are theirs [2]. Because even if<\/i> they had birth certificates and the like with them when they crossed the border, those documents were all confiscated upon arrest, and are not returned<\/i> when the parents are released. In fact, it appears that they are destroyed, "not retained".<\/p>\n

It's difficult to imagine an arrangement designed so poorly that wasn't<\/i> done so by intent, even if by intentional neglect.<\/p>\n

——
[1] https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/06\/27\/immigrant-toddlers-ordered-appear-court-alone\/<\/a>
[2] https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/06\/28\/undocumented-immigrant-parents-border-children-el-paso-shelter-separated\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\n
\n<\/a>
\nImmigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone | The Texas Tribune<\/a><\/span>
\nAs the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as 3 years old are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"Oh, he's backed off everything, hooray, on to other news!" Not quite. Because not only was his backing-off full of weasel-words, and reliant largely on the good graces of ICE and CBP, but there remain the over 2000 kids already separated from their families, and that's continuing to be a horrible, destructive mess. "Oh, but … Continue reading “Trump’s Immigration Debacle is … still a debacle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,17,740,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-homeland-security","category-race-racism","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134647,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/the-equifax-debacle.html","url_meta":{"origin":136853,"position":0},"title":"The Equifax Debacle","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 11-Sep-17 11:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, pretty much this. I'm following along the news as the best \"next\" steps to take as a consumer. Things continue to change so fast in terms of (a) things Equifax is doing and (b) ways Equifax is being criticized for stuff they are doing, that taking any steps for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/equifax-comic.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38337,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/this-is-captain-spaulding-sig.html","url_meta":{"origin":136853,"position":1},"title":"This is Captain Spaulding, sig…","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Jul-13 3:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Captain Spaulding, signing off! #hooray #hooray #hooray","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31627,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/05\/hooray-for-hollywood.html","url_meta":{"origin":136853,"position":2},"title":"Hooray for Hollywood!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Dec-12 4:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is what a lot of states and cities cheer when they try to encourage studios to come and film there. And the studios demand all sorts of incentives and tax breaks, with a promise of jobs, jobs, jobs ...And a promise is about all they give ... Embedded Link\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25312,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/hooray-for-money.html","url_meta":{"origin":136853,"position":3},"title":"Hooray for money!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-12 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of unlimited donations to Super PACs, supporters of some of the increasingly has-been GOP candidates are able to keep those candidacies alive.Which I suppose is good news if you actually like Gingrich or Huntsman or Santorum, or if you think that their being in race will weaken Romney as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39797,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/its-a-debacle-a-debacle-i-say.html","url_meta":{"origin":136853,"position":4},"title":"It's a DEBACLE, a DEBACLE I say!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-Nov-13 12:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Except, it seems, when you poke at a lot of these stories that make for such great headlines and URGENT BREAKING NEWS LIVE BROADCAST segments on the (hey, aren't they supposed to be left-wing?) media, they turn into something quite other than a \"debacle.\"I'm fine with running stories about how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41386,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/hooray-for-newer-math.html","url_meta":{"origin":136853,"position":5},"title":"Hooray for New(er) Math!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Mar-14 11:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Huh. Guess I missed the memo that there was some Huge Controversy over Subtraction making the rounds.All I can say is:1. My daughter got taught math in the past several years in some strange, bizarre ways that (a) allowed her to graduate to \"normal\" computation and (b) don't seem to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136960,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136853\/revisions\/136960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}