Nadler Calls for Jailing Trump Officials if They Don't Reunite Migrant Families

[ehrnst]

But, following a briefing with federal officials last week, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said he has no confidence the administration will be able to reunite all of the families in time.

"At this briefing they could not give us basic information about the status of the children or why the administration has failed to meet court orders requiring reunification," said Nadler at a press conference in Manhattan on Sunday. "What they have instead are haphazard arrangements that just lead to chaos and more heartbreak."

If they miss Thursday's deadline, he said the heads of the departments of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security should be held accountable.

"If I were the judge I would have them in front of me in court and if all the kids hadn't been reunified by then I would say 'ok you're going to jail for civil contempt until the last kid is reunified,'" he said.

Nadler is the top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, one of three Congressional committees to be briefed by federal officials last week.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/nadler-says-jail-trump-officials-if-they-dont-reunite-migrant-families/

[Squinch]

1. Do it! Better yet, jail their 4-year-olds. Just kidding. I'd never want that. But jail them, def!

[triron]

3. Would dearly like to see that, but somehow I don't think the judge will do it.

[RainCaster]

2. They are not doing anything productive to reunite those families

So yeah - put 'em in the hoosegaw.

[Hortensis]

4. Would be very right, if inadequate.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Sounds like a good idea

Force Trump to break out the pardon pen

[C_U_L8R]

6. That's the least they could do

[kacekwl]

7. The judge should issue arrest warrants to those

who willfully disobeyed a court order. They love to crow about the. Rule of Law. Lock them up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. They took children & can never re-unite many. That is Child Abduction. Felony. Period. . . . nt

[BigmanPigman]

9. I am becoming a BIG Nadler fan.

I have been wondering what the San Diego judge will do as a form of punishment since the kids will not be reunited for the dead line. Some of them will NEVER be reunited since this admin (yes, Stephen Miller I mean YOU) never intended to reunite them and therefore they are "lost". Oh well, they come from those brown, shithole countries so they are not human beings anyway. I say lock Stephen Miller up and do it ASAP!!!!!

[sandensea]

10. Nadler would make a great Attorney General.

[Duppers]

11. K & R