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Holy crap. This is genuinely an incredible scoop from @SenJeffMerkley’s office which got it from a whistleblower and provided it to NBC. The document is here. It’s wild, and it confirms the sheer cruelty of the administration’s family separation plans. documentcloud.org/documents/5688…
This is pretty much the smoking gun for the administration’s family separation policy. The first two options for “short-term options” are Zero Tolerance (with family separation as a known side effect), and then “Separate Family Units”!
And another holy crap moment! The document says that the ICE/ORR memorandum of understanding, which led to children being detained in shelters for months longer than normal, was designed explicitly as a deterrent!
That was always the suspicion but to see it in writing is... wow.
That was always the suspicion but to see it in writing is... wow.
A lot of other things in this memo have be put into place. Trump’s Remain in Mexico plan was in consideration more than a year ago. They’ve already proposed regulations to end the Flores settlement. And they’re planning to expand detention of asylum seekers. This is the roadmap.
One slightly fun thing for my fellow Immigration Lawyers out there; the author of the document considered a “Last in, First Out” policy for immigration court! This would have been a disaster and led to people waiting literally decades for court dates. Thankfully, it was shot down
A final thing. Since this thread absolutely blew up, go check out my org the American Immigration Council, @immcouncil. We’re a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to immigrant justice and holding the government accountable . Here’s our fact sheet on Asylum! americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/asylu…
