Question: Border crisis looming, what should be done?

[NationalTitles18]

U.S. Government Reaches Settlement in Class Action Family Separation Case Seeking Injunctive Relief

On Oct. 16, the United States reached a settlement in Ms. L., et al. v. ICE, et al., a class action litigation filed in 2018 seeking injunctive relief relating to the separation of parents and children at the southwest border. The proposed settlement agreement is subject to final approval by the...

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U.S. Government Reaches Settlement in Class Action Family Separation Case Seeking Injunctive Relief

On Oct. 16, the United States reached a settlement in Ms. L., et al. v. ICE, et al., a class action litigation filed in 2018 seeking injunctive relief relating to the separation of parents and children at the southwest border. The proposed settlement agreement is subject to final approval by the district court after notice to the class and an opportunity to object.

“The practice of separating families at the southwest border was shameful,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “This agreement will facilitate the reunification of separated families and provide them with critical services to aid in their recovery. I am grateful to Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta and the Department’s Civil Division for their work on this matter.”

Under the proposed settlement, new standards will be established to limit family separations in the future. The settlement provides for continued family reunifications, immigration relief, and certain support services for separated families, including behavioral health services, targeted legal support related to immigration claims, limited housing assistance, and certain medical coverage. The settlement does not involve the payment of monetary damages. Those who believe they are class members may submit claims of class membership to the Family Reunification Task Force through the Together.gov website.

“The separation of families at our southern border was a betrayal of our nation’s values,” said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. “By providing services to these families and implementing polices to prevent future separations, today’s agreement addresses the impacts of those separations and helps ensure that nothing like this happens again.”

On Feb. 26, 2018, a plaintiff identified as “Ms. L” filed a complaint in the Southern District of California alleging she had been unlawfully separated from her child. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) later filed an amended complaint to add class action claims contending that the separation of putative class member parents from their children violated procedural and substantive due process, as well as the asylum statute. On June 26, 2018, the district court certified a class of separated parents and issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting future separations except in certain specified circumstances. The court also required the reunification of families previously separated.

Since that time, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have worked with plaintiffs to identify class members and their children, developed plans for reunification, and reunified class members with their children. On Jan. 26, 2021, the Justice Department rescinded the Department’s 2018 zero-tolerance policy for offenses under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a). In Feb. 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order establishing the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families, comprised of representatives from various federal agencies, including the Justice Department, DHS, and HHS. The parties have worked extensively to reunify families in accordance with the Executive Order and subsequent orders from the district court. The task force has searched through thousands of government records to identify separated families and has thus far reunited more than 750 children with their families and has identified 85 additional children who are currently in the process of being reunited with their families. The task force has also identified more than 290 U.S. citizen children who were separated from their parents during the relevant time frame, is working to confirm that they have been reunified with their families, and will offer them services to support their reunification.

Director William C. Peachey, Assistant Director William C. Silvis, Senior Litigation Counsel Sarah B. Fabian, and Trial Attorney Fizza Batool, all of the Civil Division’s Office of Immigration Litigation, are handling the case.

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Great work by the Biden administration in trying to rectify some of the travesties of justice that took place under the former guy.

 

[mdb-tpet]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/opinions/texas-southern-border-mexico-migrant-crisis-filipovic/index.html

Opinion: The southern border is a national shame


When it comes to the border, the trooper wrote in his email, “We need to operate it correctly in the eyes of God. We need to recognize that these are people who are made in the image of God and need to be treated as such.”

There is nothing good or godly about what’s happening at the border. There is only Hell on earth — created, in part, by American politicians.

Cruelty is the point for many politicians and their supporters in immigration. Whichever semi-legal policy hurts the immigrants the most yet makes the supporters feel superior when the policy can be spun someway as protecting America, is the policy these politicians support.

It's beyond shameful the US would separate a family for any reason, much less because we simply have more immigrants at the border than we want to let in.

We need a revamping of our worker immigrant visa program to allow for those that want to work their way into citizenship in an orderly, honest, and legal way without creating another abusive worker program.

 

[NationalTitles18]

Cruelty is the point for many politicians and their supporters in immigration. Whichever semi-legal policy hurts the immigrants the most yet makes the supporters feel superior when the policy can be spun someway as protecting America, is the policy these politicians support.

True, and that's the sad part.

The task force has also identified more than 290 U.S. citizen children who were separated from their parents during the relevant time frame, is working to confirm that they have been reunified with their families, and will offer them services to support their reunification.

Worse yet, American citizens were caught up in the cruelty.

But I doubt the magats care. They don't want many of those children to be citizens anyway, the law be damned.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

'Lying from Day 1': Chicago residents outraged as migrant camp construction begins

After months of heated debate and community pushback, the City of Chicago is going through with its plans to construct a winterized base camp for migrant housing in Brighton Park.

news.yahoo.com

"They’re going to start moving as soon as they can, because they gotta cover their tails, and I’m talking about the mayor and the alderwoman. They’ve been lying since day one," said Ricardo Palacios, community member.

"Nobody was really told this was going to happen, they basically said, ‘we’re going to do this, shut up,’" said Michael Patlan, community member.

Here's the part that made my eyebrows shoot up:

Formerly an industrial site, residents believe the soil is contaminated. From the start, they’ve been vocal about the issue – and say previous attempts to utilize the land failed because of it.

"You got the railroad tracks right behind, when it rains the water comes in," said Palacios. "So guess what’s going to end up happening? Sooner or later, people are going to end up getting sick, they’re going to sue the City of Chicago, us as taxpayers, we’re going to end up paying double."

The city has conducted environmental testing, but still hasn’t released the results.

Yikes! This won't end well.

 

[Bazza]

Just when you think you've seen everything.........

 

[Bamaro]

This is totally out of control:

• A surge in migrants at the southern border meant, on Tuesday, that the single highest number of encounters with authorities took place
• The last year of the Biden presidency has seen the highest ever number of migrant encounters at 2.4million

Migrant encounters at the open southern border hit their highest ever single day total on Tuesday, as an astounding 12,000 people flooded across the border into the US.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Illinois NAACP president under fire for calling migrants 'savages' during Zoom meeting

Illinois NAACP President Teresa Haley is under fire for calling migrants "savages" during a Zoom meeting.

abc7chicago.com

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The president of the Illinois NAACP is coming under fire on Tuesday for disparaging comments she made about migrants.

In video provided to ABC7, Teresa Haley calls them savages. She is denying it, but is now facing a call for her resignation.

In a recent Zoom call meeting with NAACP leaders from around the state, Haley answered a question from a participant.

That's when she began talking about all the migrants coming to Chicago, saying how they are living on the streets, and that Black people have been in similar predicaments for a long time, and no one cares.

"But, these immigrants have come over here, they've been raping people, they've been breaking into homes. They're like savages as well. They don't speak the language, and they look at us like we were crazy," Haley said.

Gov. JB Pritzker denounced those comments on Tuesday.

This is getting that "powder keg" feel.....the kind of keg that can alter the outcome of an election.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Razor-wire and federal agents: Mexico’s increasingly visible effort to deter migrant crossings at border

TIJUANA — Months into an ongoing increase in migrant border crossings — which have left hundreds of migrants on any given day unsheltered in San Diego County and strained local humanitarian resources — Mexican…

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

TIJUANA —
Months into an ongoing increase in migrant border crossings — which have left hundreds of migrants on any given day unsheltered in San Diego County and strained local humanitarian resources — Mexican authorities have stepped up enforcement in an effort to deter passage into the United States.

Just south of the border wall in San Ysidro, Mexican officials have installed a chain link fence reinforced with razor wire at the top and bottom that prevents entry to a section of the Tijuana River channel, identified as one of the main points for migrants crossing into San Diego.

Behind the barrier, Mexican National Guard and immigration agents keep watch at all times.

I have no idea who the Mexican president is, but maybe he should run over here when his term is up.

 

[AWRTR]

There seems to be some movement in the senate on a bill that will include Ukraine money and border provisions. Not sure if they can get sixty votes but it’s something.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

There seems to be some movement in the senate on a bill that will include Ukraine money and border provisions. Not sure if they can get sixty votes but it’s something.

Yeah, Dems are throwing a tantrum over that, but I've been saying forever that all legislation should be single-item and it would cut back on a lot of this (for better or for worse.)

 

[CrimsonJazz]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arizona-governor-democrat-orders-national-guard-border-2023-12-16/

Hobbs, in her executive order to mobilize the National Guard, said the resulting "crisis" has put public safety and commerce at risk. She had previously asked Biden to reassign the Arizona National Guard to reopen the Lukeville port of entry.

"With this Executive Order, I am taking action where the federal government won't," Hobbs said in her press statement, adding that the Biden administration has also "failed to respond" to her request to reimburse the state for border security spending.

 

[Bamaro]

A record 300,000 illegal crossings in December.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

A record 300,000 illegal crossings in December.

How else will this nation's owners keep wages disgustingly low? The plan is working exactly as intended.

 

[twofbyc]

A Repugnican House member just said that they’re not interested in immigration reform as long as Biden is President, because “we’re not going to give him the win.” Read it briefly at work (something about “saying the quiet part out loud”), but can’t find it. Safari has limitations.
This isn’t a secret - solving problems dissolves divides, which would be the death knell of the ruling class (read: Dems and Reps partisans). They’re whistling past the graveyard because if the divide widens much more, the existence of the USA (and the lives of everyone in it) will be in danger of destruction; maybe initiated from within but interfering actions from without are a given, if it reaches a certain point.
Their ignorance keeps them from understanding what they’ll end up with (the survivors) will be much worse than what they have now.

 

[Go Bama]

A Repugnican House member just said that they’re not interested in immigration reform as long as Biden is President, because “we’re not going to give him the win.” Read it briefly at work (something about “saying the quiet part out loud”), but can’t find it. Safari has limitations.
This isn’t a secret - solving problems dissolves divides, which would be the death knell of the ruling class (read: Dems and Reps partisans). They’re whistling past the graveyard because if the divide widens much more, the existence of the USA (and the lives of everyone in it) will be in danger of destruction; maybe initiated from within but interfering actions from without are a given, if it reaches a certain point.
Their ignorance keeps them from understanding what they’ll end up with (the survivors) will be much worse than what they have now.

Perhaps this is what you're looking for.

Republicans Don’t Want to Win an Immigration Policy Fight - The American Prospect

They just want to sustain the image of an immigration crisis.

prospect.org

Maybe this can be explained by the words of Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) to CNN during the field trip: “I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating.” In other words, a deal that Democrats can accept, even a deal that bends pretty far in the direction of a restrictionist border policy, is a deal House Republicans are unwilling to contemplate. In order to keep the border issue alive in 2024, they’d rather blow up the Senate negotiations. They see this as a win even if they lose on government funding, because it keeps immigration and the general aura of crisis on the front pages.

 

[Tidewater]

According to the US Census in 2020, the US had 45,270,103 foreign-born people living in the US. That included naturalized, green card holders, and counted illegals.

 

[Go Bama]

According to the US Census in 2020, the US had 45,270,103 foreign-born people living in the US. That included naturalized, green card holders, and counted illegals.

Well, that's 13.4% (45/335).

One third of my household is foreign-born.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here, but that 13.4% is not an unusually high percentage of our population for foreign-born.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time

What is alarming is the rate of immigrants coming into the US since about 1970.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

MSN

New York Democrat says taxpayers deserve answers after she captured and shared "unbelievable" video of cars appearing to belong to migrants being towed outside a Brooklyn shelter. "It seems like they're having more resources than the average American, so we deserve answers," Assemblywoman Jaime Williams, who represents southeast Brooklyn-area neighborhoods like Marine Park and Canarsie, told "Fox & Friends First" on Monday.

Williams herself counted five cars and one truck, saying the vehicles did not have license plates.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Mexico's $20 BILLION demand from Biden to help fix the border mess

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants a U.S. $20 billion fund to deal with migration causes, while calling for the U.S. to change its posture toward Cuba.

www.dailymail.co.uk

His long list of demands come even as the Biden administration is asking Mexico to do more, as a surge of migrants continue to flow across the border. It also comes at a time when the Biden administration needs to show progress on the issue while getting hammered by Republican rivals and even some prominent Democratic mayors on the costs and social impacts of the surge.

Border encounters hit another stunning milestone in December with 300,000
apprehensions.

 

[Tidewater]

Well, that's 13.4% (45/335).

One third of my household is foreign-born.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here, but that 13.4% is not an unusually high percentage of our population for foreign-born.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time

What is alarming is the rate of immigrants coming into the US since about 1970.

I do not think it is too much, but I do think 45 million is a lot of people. No polity in human history has absorbed that many immigrants.
It would be much easy to absorb if we lived in a United States possessed of great internal unity, but it seems the one thing many Americans can agree on is hating each other. Under such conditions, assimilating 45 million immigrants seems more difficult.