White House Drafts Plan to Keep Migrant Families Unified in Detention
Article publisher:
Breitbart
Article date:
13 October 2018
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
Progressives are denouncing a draft border-protection plan that would keep Central American adult migrants in border detention with their children for 20 days after they cross the border.
The 20-day plan is being developed as migrants, cartel smugglers, and pro-migration groups have collectively pushed the cross-border flow to a record level of 16,500 parent-and-child border-crossers in September. The plan will likely spur pre-election protests by pro-migration Democrats, was sketched in a Washington Post report:...
Most of the “families” consist of a parent with one or more children, which are carried north to help the adults exploit legal loopholes....
The 20-day plan would likely help agency officials process migrants’ legal claims faster, and likely slow the catch-and-release of job-seeking migrants with children. It would also weaken the “family separation” narrative which pro-migration progressives successfully used to end Trump’s zero-tolerance policy in May and June....