The fact that it would take me upwards of 10 minutes on a whiteboard to prove the basic context you'd need to fully understand my subsequent 10 minute rant goes a long way in itself to explain how "unspeakably inhumane" has become the default setting for US immigration policy
https://twitter.com/DamastEsq/status/1548309410778255367
In short: this provision already permanently separates families over nothing. This interpretation will separate many more families in the largest federal circuit over nothing.
The Trump family separation crisis was a multimedia flashpoint of injustice anyone could see + understand. But the 25-yr family separation crisis this decision exacerbates was enthusiastically passed into law by Dems, including the one now running the country, in #IIRIRA. #Fix96
MOC who voted for this bill (including Biden) have since come out to admit they didn't understand the implications + to support repeal. And as @DamastEsq notes in the linked post, it seems the 9th misunderstood the law on top of that. It's administrative violence all the way down
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