All the bizarre cuts in funding occurring in the federal government, ie: Special Olympics, is Trump seeking to defund and eliminate the federal government with the exception of the USA military. That is a priority of the Tea Party ideology and it has now caused inhumane treatment of children.
The word enumerated was used by the lawyer representing the White House at least twice in arguing soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste and blankets are not required in safe and sanitary conditions. The Tenth Amendment of the USA Constitution discusses the enumerated powers of the federal government. In seeking to eliminate the federal government, the Tea Party ideology leans on that amendment over and over. The idea of enumerated appears in other agencies of the USA government such as "Occupational, Safety and Health Administration" Walking and Working Surfaces (click here). These are regulations businesses in the USA believe superfluous to increasing profits to shareholders. Businesspersons such as Trump view regulations as tripwires to lawsuits and the like in impacting profitability. Trump likes to think of himself as a person chasing after the ideology of making the federal government profitable or at the very least eliminate the cause of expenses.
The problem with any of the words used to write an order is that those seeking to circumvent the order will pick on words in order to negate the power of a judicial order. That is what is occurring with the words, "safe and sanitary" when it comes to the children removed from family members and placed in cages after crossing the southern border.
The Trump White House is trying to cut costs and quite possibly eliminate any responsibility for treating border crossers, regardless of age, humanly. One of the problems in dealing with a businessman in the Oval Office is that the government is the enemy to profits and in this case the existing government is the enemy to the Tea Party ideology.
June 24, 2019
By Mike Debonas and Rachael Blade
...Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) said Pelosi agreed to back changes to the bill detailing what constitutes humane treatment for migrant children in U.S. custody.
“There’s a way to change behavior (click here) rather than just funding a dysfunctional system,” he said. “If you give them soap and toothbrushes and yet the administration is arguing that these children do not need toothbrushes and soap, then you’re not going to change behavior. If you don’t mandate ‘allow them to bathe daily,’ then they’re still going to be without bathing for many days.”...
Unfortunately, no flexibility can be built into any laws when it comes to dealing with people dedicated to a very vicious ideology of the Tea Party. Usually, legislators don't want to make laws completely inflexible to accommodate the circumstance not envisioned by legislators. But, in the case of the Trump White House, legislation has to be strict and enumerated otherwise the laws will not be adhered to and will be toyed with. Court appearances will become and has become a strategy of this political ideology.
When constructing legislation, the US House will have to enumerate the items that constitute humane treatment in order to achieve humane treatment of people at the southern border. I would not limit the enumeration of humane treatment items to children either. The people seeking asylum at the USA southern border do not want to return to their country of origin. They need to be able to begin to have materials that allow them to read to function within the borders of the USA. In the case of not just humane treatment, the words QUALITY OF LIFE can be included to indicate a higher standard of anticipated citizens entering the USA for asylum. Quality of life includes priorities of learning as well.
