It's kind of like the immigration equivalent of another financial panic: The wad of the (calculatedly ineffective) "countermeasures" employed by the government the last time has been shot, and now here comes another crisis. What do they do now?
Answer: Stop pretending to fight it:
After tens of thousands of migrant families, most from Central America, crossed the Rio Grande into Texas last summer, the government poured millions of dollars into two large detention centers meant to hold women and children — and keep more from coming.
But as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expands the centers to make space for the next wave of arrivals, the agency faces legal and political challenges that could shut them down. And a new flow of migrants raises questions as to whether the strategy has deterred migration at all.
Of course is hasn't. The only things that would do that would be a full-length, fortified border and a POTUS that was unequivocally willing to enforce immigration laws. We have the diametric opposite.
One center is a purpose-built, fifty-acre campus in Dilley, an hour's drive southwest of San Antonio. Another, smaller center is tucked among derricks in Karnes City. They will be able to house some 3,400 migrants once they reach full capacity, just a fraction of those crossing, leaving ICE with few options besides releasing many with notices to appear in court, as it did in the past.
Why would anybody think that building ludicrously inadequate holding facilities that aren't even atolls in an ocean of illegals pouring northward would constitute a deterrent to illegal immigration? Other, of course, than as a strawman set up to fail so that the border erasure crowd to point to that preordained failure and claim that "border enforcement doesn't work" and "it's time for blanket, preemptive amnesty".
And, sure enough....:
Some one hundred thirty House Democrats and thirty-three senators have called on the government to halt family detention, while a federal judge in California has tentatively ruled that the policy violates parts of an eighteen-year-old court settlement that says immigrant children cannot be held in secure facilities. ICE responded by pledging to improve its centers while it awaits the judge's ruling.
"We are moving in the direction of closing these centers down," said Jonathan Ryan, executive director of the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.
Leaving ICE with....NO options besides releasing ALL illegals with notices to appear in court. Which they will ALL ignore.
How else, after all, will Julian Castro get elected governor of Texas in 2018?
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