Trump administration to release hundreds of immigrant families from detention

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

But with border nonprofits already stretched to capacity, many families will probably end up dropped off en masse at bus stations.

Hundreds, or even thousands, of migrant families are set to be released from government detention along the US-Mexico border over the next several days. But while the mass release of families may cheer critics of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrant families, the government’s new plan will probably lead to hundreds of families getting dropped off en masse at bus stations — literally out in the cold.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency that’s generally responsible for immigrant detention, has already started mass releases of hundreds of families a day.

But in a break with standard policy, US Border Patrol has developed a plan to release some families directly if they’ve been held for more than a few days — instead of holding all families for ICE to pick up.

Plans for Border Patrol to release families directly were confirmed to Vox by two officials with knowledge of the mass-release operation. The sources said that releases from both ICE and Border Patrol could start as soon as Thursday and are expected to last for a few days — with hundreds of families a day set to be released in the Rio Grande Valley and around El Paso.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, Katie Waldman, did not confirm any plan to release families directly from Border Patrol custody.

However, in a statement, Waldman partly blamed a 2015 ruling extending legal protections to children who arrived with parents in the US — including requiring Border Patrol to keep them in custody for no more than 72 hours — for causing the current “immigration crisis”, saying it “incentivizes illegal alien adults to put their children in the hands of smugglers and traffickers” and “rewards parents for bringing their children with them to the United States.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-to-release-hundreds-of-immigrant-families-from-detention/ar-BBRvscA?li=BBnb7Kz

[Kajun Gal]

1. Guess that's what Trump calls "catch and release"?

[lindysalsagal]

2. ....releasing his own internal caravan of "criminals" right at the border? I thought these people we

were dangerous??? Isn't his base going to turn on him for this?