"Serpents, offspring of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of Ge·henʹna?"
Matthew 23:33
A regime that puts in the money and the effort to send lawyers to go to court and fight to keep from having to give children soap so they can wash and the ability to lay down and sleep? For MONTHS. It costs less to give them those things than it does to fight it. This is Cruelty for cruelty sake.
STOP SUPPORTING THE CRUEL AND FASCIST TRUMP REGIME - YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY
"The Trump administration argued in front of a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and they are not required to allow them to sleep"
https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-tell-9th-circuit-detained-kids-safe-and-sanitary-without-soap/
The parole argument was also something - CBP has been delaying referrals to Arlington for CFIs…leaving it to ICE to refer. So the purgatory that asylum seekers are left in for months before they even get a CFI & pass it to be deemed eligible for parole is untethered.
Then…the government argues that pregnant women don’t meet the definition of a “medical emergency” and thus have to have a positive fear determination in a CFI to even be evaluated for parole.
Sponsors are being intimidated by this admin by the paperwork including the I134, interviews and threats of lawsuits. This admin is making indefinite detention a reality for every population in unsanitary & inhumane conditions a reality & targeting their allies.
but don't take my word for it. Watch the entire video of the hearing yourself
Here's the argument (at around 25:00). The Justice Department is arguing that a consent decree requiring the gov't to provide "safe and sanitary" conditions for detained minors doesn't mean they need to be able to sleep or wash.
Judge Berzon: "Really?"
(And it only gets worse from there)
https://youtu.be/Z2GkDz9yEJA