[We are also watching -- with a weather eye on the horizon, for a 45 ordered Supreme Court appeal, on the case depicted at right. Another one Trump lost, even on appeal.] In any event, here is some of the salient bit -- of the finely argued 24 page ACLU brief, seeking to have an independent monitor full-time "ride herd" -- on ICE, ORR, DHS and the Trump Administration.
. . . .This Court’s order of July 30 enjoined ORR from pursuing certain policies and practices that unnecessarily extend class members’ detention. E.g., July 30 Order at 32 (enjoining blanket policy of requiring that post-release services be in place prior to the release of a class member to a sponsor for whom home study was conducted). The evidence indicates that ORR continues to pursue policies and practices that protract children’s detention unnecessarily. An independent monitor would prove helpful to the Court’s adjudicating whether these policies and practices accord with the Settlement. . . .
Obviously, when the threat of arrest and removal [via excessively fingerprinting anyone who seeks to see a child; and ASTONISHINGLY, screening credit score histories of ACLU lawyers -- on the cases] succeeds in deterring parents and other potential custodians from coming forward, children suffer longer and longer periods in ORR detention, a result wholly inimical to their welfare and ORR’s statutory obligation to care for children, not turn them into a tool of law enforcement. See generally Flores v. Sessions, 862 F.3d 863, 876 (9th Cir. 2017) (“focus on care and placement -- rather than on detention -- is evident from the plain text” of the Homeland Security Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act).
Unless Defendants’ information-sharing furthers child safety or securing a child’s appearance, doing so violates the Settlement’s requirement of expeditious release. A special master would assist the Court in determining Defendants’ policy and practice in fact protect children, or merely injure them even more. . . .
Finally, since I'm on a rant this Saturday afternoon -- Trump has just deemed "credible" the Saudis' officially preposterous notion that a 60 year old US permanent resident journalist picked a "fist fight" with 15 young men (all at once!), and one was a forensic expert (skilled at rapidly dissecting humans, with a bone saw). . . and in the process of "fist fighting" -- the journalist fell repeatedly on the bone saw -- until he was decapitated -- and cut into sections. And Trump says it is "unfortunate" that this crime has captured the world's imagination/attention. After all, this is only unfortunate, since Trump (and Jared Kushner) need to keep those GOP donors happy, and keep selling US made arms -- to the Saudi prince.
Utterly disgusting. Be sure to vote. . . your conscience. Vote for humanity. Vote for continuing the rule of national -- and international -- human rights law. . . Me? I'm out knocking on doors, in deep red districts, tomorrow. Onward -- ever onward.
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