Tomorrow is the day that children separated from their families at the border are supposed to be reunited, but it doesn’t look like the Trump administration will meet that deadline.
As of July 23, they had only reunited or “appropriately discharged” less than half the separated children in custody. The ACLU lays out the numbers from the court case they filed on behalf of the separated families.
On July 23, the Trump administration told the court that it had reunited or ‘appropriately discharged’ 1,187 of the 2,551 children ages five and older who were forcibly separated from their parents. The government has also reunited 58 out of 103 children who are under the age of five and whose reunions were required by the first deadline, July 10.
The government identified 1,634 class members who are eligible for reunification and are in various stages of the process. However, in the same federal court filing, the government has claimed that the separated children of 917 parents are either not eligible, or “not yet known to be eligible,” for reunification.
The ACLU article, which is definitely worth a read, also sums up more of the numbers and what’s being done about them:
- 20 children under 5 years old have parents whose eligibility the government is challenging based on criminal history or parental fitness, and 64 children 5 years old and over.
- 260 parents have not been reunited because they’re categorized as needing “further evaluation.”
- 136 parents supposedly waived their right for unification, though it’s not clear if they had legal representation to make sure they understood their choice and options.
- 37 children in custody have “not yet been matched” to a parent.
- 12 (estimated) parents with children under 5 years old have been deported
- 463 parents of children 5 and older may no longer be in the states.
- 900 parents have final orders of removal
This article appears in Jul 19-25, 2018.
Unfortunately, and tragically, the children might have to wait. Apparently, Mr. Trump has a few other legal issues to clear up, that is until he stacks the courts to his liking and everything just goes away, like freedom, liberty and the rule of law.
Lawsuits alleging violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution
–D.C. and Maryland v. Trump
–Blumenthal v. Trump
Legal challenges to Executive Order 13768, regarding sanctuary cities
–City and County of San Francisco v. Trump
–City of Chelsea v. Trump
Legal challenges to Executive Order 13769, regarding temporary immigration restrictions
–Aziz v. Trump
–Darweesh v. Trump
–Doe v. Trump
–Louhghalam v. Trump
–Mohammed v. United States
–Sarsour v. Trump
–Washington v. Trump
Legal challenges to Executive Order 13780, a revised order on temporary immigration restrictions
–Hawaii v. Trump
–International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump
–Washington v. Trump
Lawsuit alleging violations of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, 44 U.S.C. 22012207
–CREW and National Security Archive v. Trump and EOP
Lawsuit alleging violations of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
–Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump
Lawsuits challenging Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity alleging violations of the Federal Advisory Committee Act
–ACLU v. Trump and Pence
–Joyner v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
–NAACP v. Trump
Lawsuit alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
–Stone v. Trump
Lawsuits regarding Presidential Memorandum on Military Service by Transgender Individuals by Donald Trump (August 25, 2017)
–Jane Doe v. Trump
–Stone v. Trump
–Karnoski v. Trump
–Stockman v. Trump
Lawsuit alleging violations of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
–New York v. Trump (the DACA lawsuit)
Lawsuit alleging violation of 12 U.S.C. 5491(b)(5)(B), a component of the DoddFrank Act of 2010
–English v. Trump
Lawsuit brought by Our Children’s Trust using the public trust doctrine to address the effects of global warming.
— Juliana et al v. United States
“463 parents of children 5 and older may no longer be in the states” – aka they skipped out on their court dates and disappeared into the illegal alien workforce. The kids were brought as their free pass. They know the government will care for them until they eventually get them back through some form of amnesty.
No, bslap, actually it’s been reported that many parents were deported before they could be reunited, some of which were deported even after the reunification order came down. It’s purposefully cruel, there’s no two ways about it.
It’s pretty rich when the immigrant hater-bashers finally get what they want–an administration that’s so perfectly in line with their blind hatred and fear that it’s willing to pursue a deterrent policy so cruel, so inhumane, so willfully vicious and devoid of humanity–yet they then refuse to admit what’s really happening.
So, which is it, haters? Are Latin American migrants–even those seeking asylum, which is not a criminal act–subhuman scum of the earth that deserve this kind of torture, or not? You can’t have it both ways, and you need to own your responsibility for their torture.