(04-11-2019, 05:59 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-10-2019, 02:31 PM)jj82284 Wrote: Have u been paying attention to anything?  I mean literally ANYTHING?  

@ THE heart of this whole issue is something called the Flores settlement.  It's an unconstitutional act of judicial supremacy where some 9th circuit lunatic tried to enact policy that was never passed by Congress and limit the amount of time a minor can be detained by the state, and the libs extrapolated this to defacto mandate catch and release of family units and thus we've seen an unprecedented influx of family units @ the border.  

The president's position is, in the meantime, detain the adults release the children to relatives or other custodians and challenge the flores decision in the long run.  Nelson wasn't on board with the optics and PR of family separation so she's out.  As DHS SECRETARY her political function in the administration is to advocate publicly and implement practically the policies of the chief executive. If she couldn't do that then she's out.  

A.) I see u have no issue with clear judicial overreach ( long standing that the president basically has universal power to ban any class or group of migrant from the country that he sees fit, and that the judiciary subordinates decisions on national security to the branches that actually answer to voters and, I don't know, actually get security briefings.)

B.) The whirlwind misdirection that any dismissal of a cabinet official is because they were the lone voice of reason against the mad tyrant is both childish and asinine.  Jeff sessions got pushed into a refusal by a comedian from Minnesota.  As a result, 30 million dollars 2 years and people's lives were wasted to grill the biggest nothing burger this side of Wisconsin.  

Never trumped derangement syndrome might be the more virulent of the two strands.

First you say I must not know what the Flores settlement is, then you accuse me of not caring about it.
At the moment you wrote each sentence, it made you feel superior.  Even though they can't both be true.  Your main goal here is probably just to feel superior to me, not understand my point of view.

So, the rest of this post is probably worthless.  I will fill in a couple of blanks you have on my point if view, even though you probably don't care.

I do know what the Flores settlement is.  Someone sued over indefinite family detention, so time limits were set via a settlement process.  The idea at the time was that a case could be processed within the time limits.  But now we have a backlog.

There are numerous ways to deal with the backlog, and a number of legal manuvers one could take to get the settlement reconsidered in light of new facts.  

Separating the children was not particularly effective at either, and it was literally the least humane of the possible choices.