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PSA: Something We Can Do for Migrants, Right Now

by Anne Laurie|  October 26, 20185:01 pm| 13 Comments

This post is in: Bleg, C.R.E.A.M., Immigration

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⚠️ EMERGENCY ALERT ⚠️

The gov't announced a plan to mass release families from detention centers. For months they’ve kept families for longer than the 20 days they are legally allowed, but now, they are suddenly mass releasing THOUSANDS with NO plans to ensure their safety.

— ?????? (@RAICESTEXAS) October 26, 2018

Link to the Houston Chronicle:

President Donald Trump’s administration is releasing thousands of Central American families after briefly detaining them at the border, overwhelming nonprofits from El Paso to San Diego who are suddenly scrambling to find them temporary housing and transportation to their final destination.

The “coordinated release” began earlier this month in Arizona, where nonprofits had to rent motel rooms to handle the influx. This week, federal officials asked Annunciation House, an El Paso shelter, to take in 1,300 adults and children with even more expected next week. In San Diego, Pastor Bill Jenkins said his church was told to anticipate as many as 150 migrants a day, double its usual intake…

The number of families coming here has steadily increased for months since the administration ended its controversial practice of family separation in June with a near-record 16,658 arriving in September, a 30 percent jump from August…

Usually migrant families apprehended at the border were processed and, if there was space, transferred to the three federal detention centers that hold immigrant families — two outside San Antonio and one in Pennsylvania.

The remainder were released, typically with GPS-enabled ankle monitors or other forms of supervision and provided notices to appear in the backlogged immigration courts.

The agency “no longer has the capacity” to conduct the additional review procedure without risking the violation of how long minors can be detained, an ICE spokeswoman said in a statement.

As a result, starting on Columbus Day weekend in Arizona, and now expanding to across the southern border, families are being freed en masse in greater numbers than before, with the burden of providing temporary shelter and travel coordination falling solely to nonprofits…

A 1997 legal settlement known as Flores prevents the detention of minors for longer than 20 days and has forced the administration to release most parents with their children, a practice Trump has consistently railed against. Critics say many don’t show at their later court hearings or if they do, they take months or years to conclude…

Bridget Cambria, an immigration attorney in Pennsylvania who often works in the Berks family detention center, said she views “coordinated release” this month as an attempt to pressure the undoing of the Flores Settlement.

“They see an emergency coming with the caravan and they have a narrative they want to use to make sure we continue much higher enforcement and the No. 1 target is obviously Flores,” she said. “If they can purport to have a surge they can use it as a reason to try get rid of it all together.”…

More detail at the link. My cynical interpretation is that Trump’s minions are lying about the number of beds they’ve got available because they want to ‘punish’ us bleeding-heart liberals for not letting them break up families and keep children in cages. And if it just so happens that ‘the optics’ of a sudden uptick in brown-skinned non-English-speaking wandering the streets of border cities looking for shelter should enflame Trump’s xenophobic, fearful base… well, twofer!

But we need your help.

Tonight our team of 100+ lawyers & case workers are mobilizing support these families. Chip in if you can: https://t.co/DFJ6RjmbXB

This is a moment where we as Americans can prove we’re not going to let cruel leadership define us.

— ?????? (@RAICESTEXAS) October 26, 2018

(RAICES’s page on Charity Navigator)

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  1. 1.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??

    October 26, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    The number of families coming here has steadily increased for months since the administration ended its controversial practice of family separation in June with a near-record 16,658 arriving in September, a 30 percent jump from August…

    I’m suspicious of these numbers. Where is the Houston Chronicle getting them from? I wouldn’t trust federal sources at this point, if they’re the source.

  2. 2.

    lamh36

    October 26, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    Yesterday Chuckles was saying he wasn’t ruling out Russian shenanigans in regards to the bombs, before the suspect was arrested. Now he’s got Hugh Hewitt on (along w/two others) to explain away the Chump supporting suspect, I’m sure

    https://media.giphy.com/media/bF28BiRmJUG7m/giphy.gif

  3. 3.

    lamh36

    October 26, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    O’beezy out here dropping truth!

    @kylegriffin1
    53s54 seconds ago
    More
    Obama: “They didn’t care about [Hillary’s] emails. And you know how you know? Because if they did, they’d be up in arms right now as the Chinese are listening to the president’s iPhone that he leaves in his golf cart. It turns out, I guess it wasn’t that important.” (via CBS)

    How soon before the usual suspects hem and haw about PBO being partisan?

  4. 4.

    guachi

    October 26, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    I like NFLTG Obama.

  5. 5.

    lamh36

    October 26, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    Wait…the #MAGABomber has shaved sides and a thin ponytail…like who he think he is..dude thought he was an extra on Dog The Bounty Huntter or Renegade

  6. 6.

    Redshift

    October 26, 2018 at 6:15 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:

    I’m suspicious of these numbers.

    I’m dubious about the phrasing. From what I’ve read, the cruel family separation policy didn’t reduce the number of migrants, so even if they’ve gone up since then, describing them as increasing “since the policy was ended” suggests a cause-and-effect that is absolutely untrue.

  7. 7.

    lamh36

    October 26, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    where everybody at?

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    October 26, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    I’m in to Raices for $15. month.

    Took the teen and his gf to Mike Levin’s campaign office here and got a yard sign to annoy the neighbors.

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 26, 2018 at 6:47 pm

    Donated

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    October 26, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    Of course, the muthaphuckas ? are lying about how many beds they have

  11. 11.

    Duane

    October 26, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    One thing the Trumpov administration can do well is make government fail miserably. They’re just stupid and evil. It shames us all. Affter today, Trump has done enough to be impeached.

  12. 12.

    low-tech cyclist

    October 26, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    This seems important. Count me in.

  13. 13.

    Karen

    October 27, 2018 at 12:25 am

    They’re being released so Trump has people to demonize. We’ve suddenly been blasted with ads blaming the Dems for wanting “open borders” so now the voter has a real flesh and bone refugeee. I care about them and you may think I’m a monster but I wish the caravans weren’t coming. We need to win and I wish the timing was not right before the midterms.

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