By Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner, Josh Dawsey and Mike DeBonis
Migrants (click here) wait to be assisted by volunteers in a Humanitarian Respite Center in the border town of McAllen, Texas on June 14, 2018.
“This is a humanitarian crisis (click here) — a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul,” Trump said. He added that the federal government “remains shut down for one reason and one reason only: because Democrats will not fund border security.”
For as long as there have been border crossings there have been religious organizations involved that secure the lives of desperate people. I take issue with Trump's words. He is trying to say Americans need to turn their backs on their moral character in order to deal effectively with the southern USA border. That is not the case. If anything, the paranoia Trump exudes is far more dangerous. The Trump Administration is not capable of securing the USA border and the violence by the Sinaloa Cartel within the USA is proof.
The churches involved are doing all the heavy lifting. There is no reason for detention facilities. There never has been a need for detention facilities.
20 June 2018
By Jaden Urbi
The Trump administration's zero tolerance policy (click here) for illegal immigration is shining a spotlight on U.S. detention efforts....
...As of this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement runs 113 detention facilities across the country and works with state and local jails along with private prisons to operate hundreds more.
ICE facilities cost $133.99 a day per adult
According to ICE's FY 2018 budget, on average it costs $133.99 a day to maintain one adult detention bed. But immigration groups have pegged the number closer to $200 a day.
The cost to maintain a family bed, which keeps mothers and children together in a family residential center, costs around $319 a day, according to DHS.
But as of April, children have been separated from their parents with much higher frequency, which has led to the creation of "tent cities" to hold thousands of separated children. Those beds cost $775 per person per night, HHS told NBC News....
The 2014 Crisis brought about change in immigration policy that worked.
June 24, 2018
By Jane C. Timm
...The Family Case Management Program, (click here) launched as a pilot in early 2016, aimed to keep asylum seeking kin together, out of detention, and complying with immigration laws. It was praised by immigration advocates for both its high rate of compliance and its ability to help migrants thrive in a new country — right up until the Trump administration shuttered it almost exactly a year ago....
...“It was really, really cost efficient compared to family detention or family separation,” Katharina Obser, a senior policy adviser for the Women's Refugee Commission's Migrant Rights and Justice program, said.
According to The Associated Press, cost the government $36 per day per family. By the end, it served 954 people in total, according to a 2017 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report.
Trump has slammed policies or programs that let undocumented immigrants live in the country while awaiting immigration proceedings, using the term "catch and release" to decry the protections afforded to children and families seeking asylum in the U.S. and inaccurately claiming that the laws force ICE to release dangerous criminals....
