Holy crap. Assuming that's true, then... wow. This is a huge loss for the UAs and the very people that complained, and they'll celebrate it. Wow.
Holy crap. Assuming that's true, then... wow. This is a huge loss for the UAs and the very people that complained, and they'll celebrate it. Wow.
I read the document he signed.
Some background:
In 1993, the Supreme Court ruled in the Flores case that the government COULD detain children, and SHOULD. IN 1997, Clinton AG Janet Reno came up with a settlement, called the Flores Settlement. Unaccompanied minor children must be released within 20 days to a relative or other responsible adult of legal residency in the US OR, lack of that, in a detention facility.
His EO states that he calls on the California courts to allow him to go froward with this plan by overturning the Flores Settlement. The Flores Settlement has been used and abused by families who are sending Unaccomponaied Minors to the border IN ORDER TO GET CAUGHT, so they can be put into the US schools, get free food, etc.
This EO basically says, "Yeah, we'll do this, but unless Flores is overturned, we have to, legally keep detaining them."
This smacks the ball squarely back in the court of the liberals, who have to either END the practice of letting UA Minors into the country immediately OR force "families to be broken up." (edit: because the adults being detained are going to be deported, therefore their children become automatic UAM's) It's a lose-lose for the Democrats. They made such a huge deal about "breaking up families" that they have NO CHOICE but to overturn Flores, meaning that sending your minors to live with Auntie Juanita in LA will be no more. He just ended new DACA types from coming in. They will now be deported back home, rather than coming in to live here illegally.