MAGA politics discusses “anchor babies.” They will seek to eliminate that power from children as a tool to return by deported parents. The courts will receive that legal burden. There will be large backlogs and the Foster system will be overwhelmed. I guess the detention facilities will be like orphanages.
Who is going to staff these facilities? There is a huge question about the funding and possibly dumping a federal expense on the states. I doubt the states have to accept such costs. Constitutionally. States rights. The states can sue for relief.
The entire mess will be used as another “hate issue” and who handles it best. I think the churches are best organized for the task. The charter school facilities and their families might be a path.
There was that whole Texas detention facility mess last time. Private companies might be standing in the wings waiting for their bank rolls again.
That’s Trump. He lends his signature to anything. He will turn employees into prisoners and fugitives and their children into “emotional basket cares” and never care about the ultimate result.
All I can say in solace, is that his authoritarian governance has temporary standing. Congress ultimately has the right to legislate and end his tyranny, limiting it in many cases to 90 days in length. The courts will be weighing in the entire time and creating the ultimate outcomes of his executive branch authority. Governors have ink pens and desk cameras, too. The goal, of course, will be to impact voters. That is the real goal. The people are simply vehicles in the drama.
I have been watching federal immigration notices over the past four years. There are online sites that facilitate immigration and asylum applications without fees. Some have fees, some don’t. Those involved with these folks should be well acquainted with those websites and the rights they generate. Any Governor will want to at least have a few folks tasked through the Attorney General’s office to handle these dynamics. Sort of like a “Trump fallout hotline” personnel. Probably paralegals.
Just a suggestion to be at the ready from Day One.
