Trump administration wants more time to reunite families separated at the border - Polidicks

http://time.com/5332091/trump-reunify-families-extension/ (SAN DIEGO) — The Trump administration asked a judge Friday for more time to reunite families who were separated at the border under its “zero-tolerance” policy to prosecute every person who enters the country illegally. Hours before a hearing in San Diego, the Justice Department filed papers seeking an extension of the deadline, which is July 10 for all parents with children under 5 and July 26 to reunite everyone else. The administration says federal law requires it to ensure that children are safe and that requires more time. Administration officials also say that they won’t be able to confirm a child’s parentage by the deadline if DNA testing is inconclusive. They will need more time to collect DNA samples or other evidence from parents who have been released from government custody. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, set the deadline last week, writing that the “situation has reached a crisis level” and that the “chaotic circumstances” were of the government’s own making. He scheduled Friday’s hearing for an update on compliance with his order. On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said less than 3,000 children are believed to have been separated, but that includes kids who may have lost parents along the journey, not just parents who were detained at the border. None had been transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be reunited with their parents. Jonathan White, a Health and Human Services official, filed a declaration with the court that gives what is perhaps the most detailed account yet of what the government is doing and the hurdles it faces. Its database has some information about the children’s parents but wasn’t designed to reunify families under the court’s deadline. The department has manually reviewed the cases of all 11,800 children in its custody by working nights and weekends, White said. The results of that review are being validated. DNA cheek swab tests on parent and child take nearly a week to complete, said White, who called the risk of placing children with adults who aren’t their parents “a real and significant child welfare concern.” “The Government does not wish to unnecessarily delay reunifications or burden class members,” the Justice Department filing reads. “At the same time, however, the Government has a strong interest in ensuring that any release of a child from Government custody occurs in a manner that ensures the safety of that child.”

How's about un-deporting all those parents that've been deported? Contact their nation's government and ask them to put the parent in touch with the US consulate or embassy who'll give them an all-expenses-paid plane ticket back to the US to their children. Oh wait, I forgot I'm dealing with xenophobic racists in this White House, I guess I'll ask for a pony and a sailboat while I'm asking for things that won't happen.

Judge Sabraw has refused a general extension and ordered the admin to share a list of renaming kids under five with the ACLU to determine which have merit for an extension.

The administration says federal law requires it to ensure that children are safe and that requires more time. Administration officials also say that they won’t be able to confirm a child’s parentage by the deadline if DNA testing is inconclusive. They will need more time to collect DNA samples or other evidence from parents who have been released from government custody. Gee, it's almost like they should've thought of all this BEFORE they started separating children from their parents! You dumb. Fucking. Shitheads.

https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1015357998296977408 fucking dog sitting

They probably thought of it, but didn't do it. Because let's face it, there was never any intent to reunite these families.

Because asylum seekers are protected from deportation while their asylum claims are being processed; this administration threw that out the window by speedily deporting them away from their children. Let us remember that Jeff Sessions explicitly stated that this policy was harsh as a deterrent. The separation of families is an illegal punishment and those parents who were deported were deported against their guaranteed rights and have been wronged by the US government. That is why it's not the other way around. The government fucked up and should (but won't) take responsibility for fixing the issue. Note that nothing about what I have said prevents the US government from deporting the family if their asylum claims are (most assuredly under this administration) rejected in the future, even if they were to bring the parents back now, reunite them with their children, and release them from custody into the general public. I haven't taken any actual power away from the US government in this scenario except power being used to exert unnecessary cruelty as a deterrent to immigration from Central and South America.