U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules

[highplainsdem]

Source: NY Times

Citing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday ordered the imminent release of migrant children held in the country’s three family detention centers.

The order to release the children by July 17 came after plaintiffs in a long-running case reported that some of them have tested positive for the virus. It applies to children who have been held for more than 20 days in the detention centers run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two in Texas and one in Pennsylvania.

There were 124 children living in those facilities on June 8, according to the ruling.

In her order, Judge Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California criticized the Trump administration for spotty compliance of recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To prevent the virus from spreading in congregate detention facilities, the agency had recommended social distancing, the wearing of masks and early medical intervention for those with virus symptoms.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/immigrant-children-detention-centers.html

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The judge wrote that the family detention centers "are on fire and there is no more time for half measures."

[Grokenstein]

1. How many have already been "disappeared"?

How many will be "disappeared" in the process of release, never to be seen again?
I have nightmares that this will be our very own Auschwitz, our very own Stolen Generation.

[elleng]

2. In June 2018, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested that the U.S. District Court

for the Central District of California modify the Flores Agreement “in a manner that would permit the Secretary, under present resource constraints, to detain alien families together throughout the pendency of criminal proceedings for improper entry or any removal or other immigration proceedings.” 2018-07-09, Gee rejected the request, citing that there was no basis to modify the agreement and pointing out that it is an issue the legislative branch has to solve instead.[10] She ruled at the time that immigrant children generally can't be held longer than 20 days.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Gee

[JoeOtterbein]

3. I hate when I can't tell the difference between my tears of joy, from my tears of sorrow...

...for the children and their parents.

[cannabis_flower]

4. NOT NEAR SOON ENOUGH!

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Pres. Biden must order tribunals to bring everyone involved to justice

Revive the Independent Counsel law if needed, but everyone involved needs to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

Any elected official who opposes this should find their career ended.