Priorities.
Took me a minute to read the headline correctly. Oh. They mean millions of dollars.
Did the same thing.
Silly you, they have not detained millions of children, yet !
Youâd think theyâd have more value performing medical research on them.
Family Values Fail!
Oops. Youâre right. Changed:
Admin Shifts Millions In Funds To Child Migrant Detention From Other Programs
Iâm still aghast all this âChecks and Balancesâ stuff Americans are so proud of, hasnât stopped this administration, really ?
Is this supposed to help find the 1500 missing children in their system?
So, essentially, this is creating a new form of âGitmoâ but instead of being in one place, the detention areas just shift as necessary.
This has NOTHING to do with deterrence but something else entirely. Iâm assuming this just creates a large pool of either free labor or free children.
âThe story is fundamentally about a significant slowdown in children being released from care,â not about a surge in arrivals, former HHS official Mark Greenberg told Yahoo News. Azar, in his letter to Murray, wrote that âHHS is preparing for the trend of high capacity to continue,â Yahoo noted.
OK, Iâm not understanding whatâs happening now. Azar anticipates high capacity with no surge in arrivals? Does that mean that they intend to keep the kids forever? If so, for what purpose? Or, is it simply a matter of transferring money from other areas to ORR to act as a shell for money to be siphoned from?
Just answered my question.
How about shifting money away from Congress ?
No pay or benefits until all child migrants are freed and with their parents and no back pay.
Iâm pretty sure President Miller has plans for the Josef Mengele Memorial Center for Biomedical Research in the works.
Itâll likely morph into a profit center for Christian labor and adoption agencies.
ÂĄTrabajar Te HarĂĄ Libre!
Do these assholes have a placement plan for these kids going forward? Can you imagine the problems this policy will create for these kids and the next administration? My god.
I know itâs not like Congress is overseeing this administration or anything, but isnât it legally âproblematicâ to just throw funds around like this?
Meanwhile - I knew more transparent way the dotard gets to enrich himself, and stick it to the media:
(click the link fir an image of the bill.)
Thanks - thatâs my question. Do we not get a budget where the government has money for certain things earmarked? How can the Executive just start moving it around when Congress voted the funds for certain things?
When youâre talking trump administration, the stupidest answer is the most likely. I think some of them imagined that asylum seekers would stop coming, and others that they could dispose of kids quickly with no oversight (either to crony charities or with quick deportations) and yet others had simply never thought the question through about what you do with the children once you detain them (much as the shrub administration made no real plans about how they would administer occupied Iraq until the debacle was already in full swing). No theyâve got pushback, theyâve got (some) oversight, and theyâre floundering. They canât stop detaining, they canât lawfully release most of the kids they have, and they canât deport them without at least sham hearings. So theyâre stuck.
And for some of them, the image of children in concentration camps (as a deterrent, you understand) is likely a real turnon.
Iâd like to see a thorough review of why it costs $750/day to house one child, especially when we are at the same time seeing reports that these kids are not being fed well or getting access to health care providers.
Josh coined a phrase for it: Trumpâs Razor.
The figure Iâve seen bandied in various places about is less than that. This article says its roughly $159/day. BUT Iâm not sure that factors in all the associated costs of construction, transportation, etc.
https://www.thenation.com/article/private-contractors-enable-trumps-cruelties-border/