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nope, but my words lacked precision, so I can see where your confusion is coming from. In my older post, I was thinking about jails with a kindergarten and play area attached. something that is 80% jail and 20% ordinary shelter. In today's post, the transition centers I was thinking about would be like a village instead of a jail, with the exception of the fence around the entire thing. they would be 20% jail and 80% shelter.


Cruz is a spineless, soulless opportunist who chose this topic to distance himself from Trump and deal a political blow to his rival on an issue where Cruz assumes to have a majority of the population, perhaps even a majority of republican voters, behind him. He's not acting out of conviction (he has none), no, he's simply jumping on the hearstrings-train which, at the moment, seems to be effective.

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“I want my aunt to come and take me to her house,” the child told a border agent, according to audio obtained by investigative news site ProPublica.

The girl says she knew her aunt’s phone number. “My mom, after my aunt comes to me, will come as soon as possible to take me with her,” she pleads.

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Twitter › MichaelAvenatti

We are now representing whistleblowers within ICE, outside contractors, etc. They have reached out to us to provide us with info as to what is really going on. We are going to blow this wide open and take the info to the American people so they can decide what happens next.
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Michael Avenatti, now representing separated migrant families, denies he’s chasing the limelight

[URL=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/21/michael-avenatti-now-representing-separated-migrant-families-denies-hes-chasing-the-limelight/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.179fd559ce67]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/21/michael-avenatti-now-representing-separated-migrant-families-denies-hes-chasing-the-limelight/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.179fd559ce67[/URL]


Avenatti is a limelight chasing loser. He'll probably get some traction with this...but it's a losing proposition.

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Michael Avenatti, now representing separated migrant families, denies he’s chasing the limelight

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/21/michael-avenatti-now-representing-separated-migrant-families-denies-hes-chasing-the-limelight/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.179fd559ce67


Avenatti is a limelight chasing loser. He'll probably get some traction with this...but it's a losing proposition.

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The surge in the number of illegal border crossings by families had created a “destabilizing migratory crisis” that puts those families at risk and threatens public safety, the Justice Department said.

“Under current law and legal rulings,” the Justice Department said, “it is not possible for the U.S. government to detain families together during the pendency of their immigration proceedings. It cannot be done.”

U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles, who oversees the Flores settlement, rejected a similar argument by President Barack Obama’s administration in 2015 to extend detentions of families. Republican President George W. Bush and Democrat Obama both increased prosecutions at the border, but this did not lead to family separations because border officials used discretion and did not refer parents for prosecution.

Gee, appointed by Obama and the daughter of Chinese immigrants, said at the time the government had presented no competent evidence its proposed modification would address the problem of increased immigration.

Gee’s ruling would be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which last year rejected the Trump administration’s travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries, part of the crackdown that Republican Trump promised on the 2016 election campaign trail and carried into the White House. Trump also wants to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, but he has failed to secure funding.

Lindsay Harris, a law professor at the University of the District of Columbia, said the administration could be eyeing a longer-term win at the U.S. Supreme Court, which has the power to reverse the 9th Circuit and allow for modification of the Flores settlement.

Congress could also supersede Flores at any time by passing a bill that lays out a legal framework for immigrant families crossing the border, Harris said. She said such a law would probably face a swift challenge under the Fifth Amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court has held the Fifth Amendment applies to non-U.S. citizens and covers family unity. But the government can point to cases saying separation of families by the criminal justice system is not unconstitutional, legal experts said.

“I predict a lot more litigation on this issue because the executive order does not settle anything once and for all,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a law professor at Cornell University.

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