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Racket wrote:
Why not detain them as a family or deport them back as a family? There's so many options available and it seems like this administration went out of its way to enforce the worst possible one.
Trump separation ends like this. The parents are deported separately of their children. They have nothing when they are dropped off. The parents have no means of communication to reach their kids. The kids are deported later. The kids have no means of communication to reach their parents. Humpty Trump cannot out the families back together again. The odds of the parents reconnecting with their kids is astronomical. The kids become orphans.
We went from releasing families while their cases are being heard (which supposedly they then just avoid and stay in the country), with very few cases of detention, to now separating the parents from their kids and processing them separately, with the kids ending up in shelters all over the US while their parents are sent back. And there is no tracking to facilitate reunification if the kids are sent back as well. This change was purely tactical, to persuade parents from dropping their cases and get sent home in hopes of future reunion. They never thought it through or prepared for it, they simply changed enforcement overnight.