Originally Posted by
domer76
The children are NOT in custody? What would you call it, then? Do you really buy the bullshit that they are "unaccompanied"?
As I said, this is not the same situation where a parent is arrested and taken to jail. These detentions are something completely different and there is no reason why families can't be kept together during detention. None
I did not make that law or write that definition, it was signed into law in 1997.
And this is the very reason that there are republicans (including D.J. Trump) working to change it so that these people can be prosecuted while in Administrative custody rather than Criminal custody so they will not be separated from their children during the proceedings.
And yeah, this is exactly that situation. These people are in Federal custody as the AG stated that everybody caught illegally crossing the border would be criminally prosecuted. This is a change from previous practice of simply administratively processing them and then turning them around at the border and only arresting them for criminal prosecution on second entry which is a felony.
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