06-27-2018, 11:07 AM
3. Republican Immigration Bill
Today, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote on the 'compromise bill' which attempts to resolve major conflicts among Republican lawmakers.
The current iteration of the bill reportedly undoes Trump's and Session's separation of children from their parents and addresses family reunification processes.
I'm not sure whether the bill includes a recommended attempt to get the Flores ruling reversed in order to keep migrant families together in detention.
During the Obama Administration, families were detained together (unless the parents were suspected criminals or smugglers/traffickers). Like now, there was a large queue of illegal border-crossers awaiting asylum/immigration hearings. As a result, the families were sometimes detained for months and months.
A court applied the Flores settlement to the situation and deemed that indefinite detention of accompanied migrant children was unconstitutional and inhumane and limited it to 20 days.
Ref: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17484546/e...mmigration
Today, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote on the 'compromise bill' which attempts to resolve major conflicts among Republican lawmakers.
The current iteration of the bill reportedly undoes Trump's and Session's separation of children from their parents and addresses family reunification processes.
I'm not sure whether the bill includes a recommended attempt to get the Flores ruling reversed in order to keep migrant families together in detention.
During the Obama Administration, families were detained together (unless the parents were suspected criminals or smugglers/traffickers). Like now, there was a large queue of illegal border-crossers awaiting asylum/immigration hearings. As a result, the families were sometimes detained for months and months.
A court applied the Flores settlement to the situation and deemed that indefinite detention of accompanied migrant children was unconstitutional and inhumane and limited it to 20 days.
Ref: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17484546/e...mmigration