Thread by @jomareewade

@SuMoh7 My personal opinion: It looks as though the Trump administration is still not acting in good faith -
- 908 parents are "not expected to be eligible" - in the majority of cases this is because the parent requires "further evaluation".
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@SuMoh7 DHS Sec. Nielsen said her agency would "do its best" to meet the July 26 deadline but would "not cut corners" on vetting parents.

However - in the prior Status Conference on 16 July, the Judge made the point that the vast majority of parents had their children removed -
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@SuMoh7 by ICE without any reason to doubt their parentage, so an expedited process can be safe as long as flags are raised appropriately.

This means that DHS’ insistence on the prolonged timeframe for “further evaluation” is the same bad faith behaviour, ignoring the true context -
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@SuMoh7 - that the Judge slammed the government for, on July 13th and 16th.

See Politico’s article about that status conference on July 16 (prior to the government's filing on the 19th with these latest numbers)

politico.com/story/2018/07/…

+ I have more notes about the conference too.
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