. On Friday, the administration said it might take longer to reunite separated families. Currently, all children under 5 must be returned to their parents by July 10 and families with older children must be reunited by July 26.
Judge Dana Sabraw gave the government until 5 pm. Saturday to provide a list of all children under five who, according to him, are covered by the reunification order as well as the reasons why it takes longer to complete the meetings in some cases.
in custody who were less than 5 years old, 83 had been matched with 86 parents. Forty-six of these parents were in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Agency – which meant that reunification was possible.
But 19 parents have already been expelled from the United States and 19 have been released by ICE.
Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of California on Friday told CNN's "The Situation Room" that the government should not be prorogued.
"Their first priority must be to meet All the children who have been separated from their mother and their father, the American people, they want order on our borders, but they also want to be safe. to ensure that we do so with compassion, "said Swalwell
Far from wading through the fray to break bureaucratic dead ends and facilitate the human misery of separations, Trump and the Vice President Mike Pence returned to the burning political rhetoric on immigration to shore up political foundations "A vote for the Democrats in November is a vote to let MS-13 go wild in our communities, to let the drugs get off the ground. To infiltrate our cities and take jobs and benefits to hard-working Americans, "he added. tweeted Friday, while ignoring the crisis of separations.
A few hours later, Pence reinforced his boss's efforts to misrepresent the children detained from their parents in a foreign country at the call of some Democratic legislators for the abolition of ICE.
"We will always be proud of our brave heroes of ICE and the Border Patrol," said Mr. Pence, addressing ICE officers and saluting Trump, who he said. described as "great champion of law and order". Trump and Pence were somehow given an opening by several Democrats, including some presidential candidates in 2020, who called for the abolition of the CIE without offering an alternative plan to face the border. Security
Trump is also a master of distraction, and he has a polite record of creating new political storms to conceal scandals and dramas that could politically damage him.
He was also lucky. The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and a vacancy that could consolidate the ideological balance of the court for a generation have captivated Washington's political imagination for more than a week [19659004] Next week, Trump will leave for a trip abroad. The photo report, which includes a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is likely to distance the issue of separations.
Yet, all the while, many thousands of kids are wondering when they will see their parents again. [19659002] Last month, it seemed that the general television coverage of the human toll of separations would cause irreversible political damage to the administration.
It is a perilous moment for any president when chess makes his government ruthless and indifferent to human suffering. The classic example is Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
When a commander-in-chief seems powerless to alter the course of events and his government seems to falter, his credibility can also be quickly broken.
Yet, the normal rules of the presidency were often suspended at the time of Trump, and although polls show that a majority of Americans oppose family separations , the crucial veneer of authority around Trump did not flinch
perhaps because children's terror It unfolds before viewers moved by the fate of Americans who are dying in the streets of New Orleans after Katrina.
It could be that Trump's presidency – and his political career – has had so many mounds … Perhaps it's the reason why the political damage is contained, it's that one hunk of Trump's base is deeply invested in the President's tough immigration policies, But it becomes clear that the imbroglio is far from resolved – and there is every chance of more future public relations disasters – for example, if some children
Doubts about the ability of the Trump administration to reunite children and their parents are exacerbated by its reluctance or its inability to publicly describe the child. the magnitude of the problem or to explain the progress made in putting an end to it. On Thursday, Azar said that "less than 3,000" children from separated families were in detention.
On Friday in a court filing, HHS said that this number included "approximately" 101 children under 5 years old.
It is unclear how many children are still separated from their parents and how many families have been reunited – let alone the question of how the government will deal with new families crossing the border and who will be Not separated, but will probably be considered criminals under Zero Tolerance Policy
Disorder does not seem to need to be cleaned up anytime soon.
