12-19-2018, 06:51 PM
Ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fully in line with the immigration policies of Stephen Miller and Donald Trump during his tenure with the Trump administration.
Together, the three of them devised the 'zero tolerance policy' which resulted in asylum-seekers who had entered at unauthorized border points being prosecuted instead of sent to detention centers to await immigration hearings.
It's also the policy that made separating such adult asylum-seekers from their children at the border the rule instead of the exception (it was the exception under previous administrations, applied only when the adult was deemed a threat to the child).
The zero tolerance policy was effectively terminated because DHS did not have the capacity to adhere to the 1997 and 2015 Flores rulings which prohibit children from being held in detention for more than 20 days.
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Together, the three of them devised the 'zero tolerance policy' which resulted in asylum-seekers who had entered at unauthorized border points being prosecuted instead of sent to detention centers to await immigration hearings.
It's also the policy that made separating such adult asylum-seekers from their children at the border the rule instead of the exception (it was the exception under previous administrations, applied only when the adult was deemed a threat to the child).
The zero tolerance policy was effectively terminated because DHS did not have the capacity to adhere to the 1997 and 2015 Flores rulings which prohibit children from being held in detention for more than 20 days.
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