Once Again, Noem And Stephen Miller Are Appealing An Order To Treat CHILDREN Humanely. They Cannot Be Held In Adult Jails For Over 72 Hours, Ever -- Especially When ICE / BP Sees So Few Of Them.

Let that sink in. Just as in Tangerine 1.0, when Trump contended in the Ninth Cir. that children did not need toothbrushes, soap or water(!?) -- now he is appealing an order to move kids to more "school like" facilities within 72 hours at the outside, and in any event, as soon as possibile -- out of windowless CPB adult jail cells.

Who are these. . . truly horrible. . . human beings? What is wrong with them?! These are kids -- many not even 11 years old yet. Jesus. See this latest pleading, with attached sworn declarations, in the now 40 years old Flores class action litigation, in the able USDC Judge Dolly Gee's courtroom in LA:

. . .[The Noemite/Miller/Tangerine] Defendants attempt to minimize the import of its no-release policy by presenting it as a percentage of the whole, 4.87% represents a staggering 154 children detained in squalid CBP conditions for over 72 hours in September alone, with the highest time in custody reaching over a month. Kahn Decl. ¶ 3. This is despite continued low numbers of border encounters. The JC CBP Report indicates that only approximately 105 children crossed the border each day of September, on average. Id.

October data is just as troubling, with 115 children detained in CBP custody over 72 hours. Kahn Decl. ¶ 4. As detailed in the table below, the longest detention in October was 29 days. Id. Based on this data, at least one child spent nearly a month in the barren, jail-like conditions of CBP. Thirty-six children were detained for over five days, eighteen of whom were detained over a week, five of whom were detained for over ten days, and three of whom were detained for over two weeks. Given the low numbers of children crossing the border, Defendants provide no reasonable justification for forcing any child to stay detained in the harsh conditions of a windowless CBP cell for weeks or a month. . . .

This is a central failure of what was [at least in the JFK / Camelot 1962 mythology] that "shining beacon on a hill" nation: how we treat the least of our brothers and sisters. Damn. Out.

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