Trump admin to end separation policy

[Belsnickel]

(06-20-2018, 08:58 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: And the previous admins opted for the civil proceedings primarily to avoid situations like this where children are separated from their parents. This admin took that position solely to prove to its base that it is "tough on illegal immigration", and then instituted the family separations solely to blackmail votes for the Wall proposal. 

Exactly.

(06-20-2018, 08:58 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: The largest issue is the lack of federal judges to hear the cases. This was exacerbated by the six year Republican lock-out on judge appointees by the Obama admin and the delays in getting Trump admin appointees approved (generally because most are hacks and unqualified for the positions).

I will only add that there is a staffing problem for other positions, as well. It is extremely difficult to fill positions in the government in modern times. Gone are the days when serving your country through civil service was seen as an honorable career path. Ever since the attack on the administrative state that really started to ramp up during the Nixon administration, we have seen applications to fill positions decrease year over year. We've also seen a reduction is qualifications among those applicants.

This is just one of those things that irritates me because people like to ***** about government workers, but they've been attacking the profession for decades making a lot of good people avoid it, so we don't always get the best people to fill jobs.