Trump admin to end separation policy

[Millhouse]

(06-25-2018, 07:13 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: My understanding of policy is that it means law, when speaking of the Federal Government.  Again, no laws were changed, only existing ones being enforced.



A temporary measure, to allow Congress time to come together and agree on new policy.

Actually this all came about because of the 'zero tolerance' policy that Sessions announced in May. All adults would be now prosecuted for illegally crossing. And because of the 1997 law and related decisions on it, a child could only stay with an adult up to 20 days. So since that parent would be in jail or facing charges longer than 20 days due to 'zero tolerance', the kids were separated.

So the only reason the older laws were being 'enforced' was because of the new policy enacted by Sessions and Trump. Obviously they didnt think that far ahead to realize that separating families like this would be frowned upon like it has been. Because if they did, that executive order would have been signed when 'zero tolerance' started up.