Originally Posted by
BMEP100
Still is not illegal...IF you present yourself at the border to an agent and ask to apply for refugee status.
Actually, it is happening, but the Trump administration is saying that it is now illegal and only presenting yourself at port of entry from which they are turning people way is legal.
Originally Posted by
BMEP100
During that process, the small minority, less than 18% who have their own children with them are separated because they are in fact breaking the law and must be sent back.
The decision was formerly left to the discretion of US attorneys like a myriad of other issues for the last nine years. Trump took the discretion out of their hands with regards to immigration, zero tolerance.
Originally Posted by
BMEP100
Now if you come to the border to apply for asylum, you are given forms to file, and then told to wait on the other side of the border for the investigation and a hearing....with your children.
Cool. How long does that take? Are those safe environs on the other side of the border?
Originally Posted by
BMEP100
The president has really stepped on his crank when he caved. There are just not enough facilities to house families securely, as a unit while protecting the kids from other adult detainees. CBP is in a tizzy about what to do now.
Wow. Maybe they should have thought of that before they changed the policy.