Stink Billyums posted:

Trump bringing up the 13 Angry Democrats always makes me think of the Chinese Communist Party. Because Chinese doesn't really have plurals, they'd often have political campaigns with numbers in the name. The Four Pests, The Three Antis, The Four Olds, The Eight Honours and Eight Shames, The Three Stresses. Very specific lists.

Why is it 13 Angry Democrats? I don't know, but I sure know there are 13 of them!

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Today was March4OurRights

A "march" for gun rights

https://mobile.twitter.com/ALT_uscis/status/1015690126301761541

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

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Moridin920 posted:

Wouldn't it be nice if a meteor destroyed the capital building during the state of the union except bernie didn't go bc he had a small cold

Moridin920 posted:

Wouldn't it be nice if a meteor destroyed the capital

Jel Shaker posted:

So I guess those kids just stay in the camps forever? At least those ones unlucky to come at the worst time

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With the Trump administration asking for more time to reunite immigrant parents with their children, it's become clear that, despite statements to the contrary, federal authorities began separating hundreds of families at the border with little to no planning for how they would eventually be reunited.

From the beginning of the policy's implementation, immigrant advocates had been voicing concerns that the separations appeared to have taken place without appropriate record keeping and with little thought to how to bring together parents and children who were being housed in facilities run by two vastly different federal departments.

During the height of the backlash about the separations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said authorities, for the most part, had no intention of reuniting the parents until they're about to be deported.

The difficulty was apparent in McAllen, Texas, weeks ago, when an assistant federal public defender, Azalea Aleman-Bendiks, told a federal court that her office had tried and failed to match 38 adults who appeared at a May 23 hearing with the 39 children they'd been separated from; records for nine of the adults couldn't even be found.

Six weeks later, a court hearing Friday in San Diego made evident the extent of the breakdown between the Department of Homeland Security, which separated the children from their parents under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), whose Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) houses the children at dozens of sites around the country.

At the hearing, Justice Department attorneys acknowledged that the government is uncertain it knows the whereabouts of all the parents of 101 children under the age of five who the government has been ordered to reunite with their parents by Tuesday. Under the order, issued June 26 by US District Judge Dana Sabraw, a George W. Bush appointee, hundreds of older children are to be reunited by July 26.

Some of the parents of children under five may have been released into the United States and others may have been deported to their homelands, and the government may not know where they are, Justice Department lawyer Sarah Fabian told the court. Some released parents are not returning calls, she said.

"There are then some groups for whom the reunification is more difficult," Fabian said. "In some cases if we’re not, for example, aware of where the parent is, I can’t commit to saying that reunification will be able to occur by the deadline.”

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project who filed the lawsuit, expressed frustration at the government's inability to track the parents.

"I just don't understand why the government would take a child away, let the parent walk out, with no way of reaching them," Gelernt told the court. "A pre-verbal child is not going to understand where the parent is."

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Jikes posted:

Good question! And you've already put more thought into it than the Trump administration.


https://www.buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/a-court-order-reveals-the-lack-of-planning-that-went-into?utm_term=.unaMKWYWO5#.kl55ADNDMb

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

videos of a bunch of bitchmade protesters