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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsey Graham introduces bill to extend detention of migrant children from 20 to 100 days
Source: CBS News Graham wants the cruelty to remain intact.....
Sen. Lindsey Graham is introducing a new bill that he says will help stop the flow of immigrants from Central America and "regain control of our border." Graham claimed that current caps in law have led to the escalation of immigrants traveling to the border as well as those in government custody
"We have a perfect storm brewing at the border because of a series of broken and outdated laws related to asylum and children," said Graham. "No matter how high the wall will be built...no matter how many agents you put at the border, they'll keep coming because they want to get caught."
Graham's bill would reverse a long-standing order on detention dubbed the "20-day rule." The rule, adopted after the 1997 Supreme Court Flores agreement, which set the nation's rules for the treatment of immigrant minors in federal custody, says that migrant children, whether they arrived with family or are unaccompanied, cannot be held in detention for more than 20 days. Graham's bill would instead recommend holding migrant children with their families for 100 days.
[link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-introduces-bill-to-extend-detention-of-migrant-children-from-20-to-100-days/?fbclid=IwAR3EhvpP-_XxswFSxLEy0sP7CaYQnl50nWGaW8SQSsW4prafE_5UTzaAhEQ|
Meadowoak
(5,517 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,506 posts)See how long ole Lindsey can stay sane.
Meadowoak
(5,517 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Until he dies.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...along with Trump, McConnell and the rest of their evil minions.
True Blue American
(17,973 posts)Low life Lindsey.
Greybnk48
(10,149 posts)There's something fishy going on with him and his crazy behavior all of a sudden. He's being black-mailed.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,506 posts)Skeletons in the closet perhaps?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Meadowoak
(5,517 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,249 posts)If youre gonna have to sink, you might as well go to the bottom
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)Pure fucking evil.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)NewDayOranges
(691 posts)An add'l $62,000/child that the US taxpayer will be forking over to the for-profit prison/human warehousing industry!
sheshe2
(83,359 posts)It clear he is doing this for his personal gain.
-Welcome to DU, NewDayOranges.
tulipsandroses
(5,094 posts)This is just like the for profit prison system. Lock people up, fill the jails/prison. We don't care how many people/family's lives we ruin. Lock em up for any bullshit. Heck, we won't even do our due diligence in some instances to find out if they are truly guilty. Tax payers pay and some scumbag gets a contract and makes money at the taxpayer's expense.
This crisis is actually profitable to them. Under Obama- border crossings were lower. Obama worked with the various countries and sent them Aid - Of course anything Obama did - Trump undid.
panader0
(25,816 posts)My outrage meter was broken two years ago. Now my mind is almost broken.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)I hate most everyone I meet.
Seems almost like an obligation.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)Let me know when 2 million of you are willing to hit the streets HARD, I dont know exactly what I mean by hard but polite signs aint gonna cut it anymore.
Dirty Socialist
(3,249 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)where the fuck am I?
Dirty Socialist
(3,249 posts)Or water boarding of prisoners?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Ohiogal
(31,685 posts)"If you make them miserable enough, they'll stop coming."
Despicable assholes.
Freethinker65
(9,935 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,249 posts)I hear Graham loves the taste of mushrooms.
Vinca
(50,173 posts)I think if John McCain was still alive he'd strangle Lindsey.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Good move, Lindsey. You just go with the Republican method...rewrite the rules to fit your violations. What's next, 200 days?
Idiots!
chowder66
(9,015 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,249 posts)Demetrius: I followed the rules
Caligula: We CHANGED the rules!!!
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)grumpyduck
(6,200 posts)kacekwl
(6,994 posts)because we let them. Fuck it all.
AllaN01Bear
(17,411 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Don't spend any more money on judges or lawyers or staff to clear dockets and give people the process they are due.
Instead you purposely hold them to soak the taxpayer for the benefit of the private prison industry.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/investing/private-prison-stocks-soar-trump/index.html
Lindsay is just making good on what the GOPs prison industry wanted. They saw it coming when Trump was elected.
bdamomma
(63,665 posts)"they do want to be caught" they want a better life.
WTF what about your relatives didn't they immigrant to the US from another country?????? common sense and facts are out the window.
The more we protest this they (Congress) will fucking do something. Don't fuck around with those of us who believe in being humane and civil and being welcoming of those who want a better life and want to come to the US to have at least a chance to make it.
MineralMan
(146,195 posts)So, Graham wants to torture children even longer? Fuck that!
Faux pas
(14,586 posts)such a soulless effing asshole.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)trying to stop the great beige/brown migration through fear instead of recognizing it as a gift to humanity
Dirty Socialist
(3,249 posts)The Global Right Wing. It is one of the biggest threats to humanity today. Kind of like The Iron Curtain last century.