Immigration June 20, 2018

Read The Fine Print; This Is Still A Mess

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 20: U.S. President Donald Trump displays an executive order he signed that will end the practice of separating family members who are apprehended while illegally entering the United States on June 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. The order would detain parents and children together. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

You break it, you fix it, unless you’re Donald Trump. While the administration’s policy going forward will require families to remain united, this apparently doesn’t apply to the thousands of migrant children who have already been taken from their parents. From The New York Times:

“There will not be a grandfathering of existing cases,” said Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Wolfe said the decision about the children was made by the White House, but he added, “I can tell you definitively that is going to be policy.”

Well that’s unacceptable. https://t.co/sxq5MRd9fR

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 20, 2018

Per CNN's @TalKopan, today's exec order "has not changed anything in terms of reunification of families." So the kids who are missing their moms & dads are still going to suffer. "No new special procedures for those children."

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 20, 2018

So the fate of more than two thousand kids remains uncertain. The disaster created by this administration is not going away anytime soon, and it will likely get worse. From The Times:

But the action raised new questions that White House officials did not immediately answer. The order does not say where the families would be detained. And it does not say whether children will continue to be separated from their parents while the facilities to hold them are located or built.