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Find Ken Feinberg<\/p>\n

This is my fifth essay on the border crisis.\u00a0 The \u201cunwritten rules\u201d of Trump World are to not get stuck on one subject, and not \u201cchase\u201d the headlines.\u00a0 As General MacArthur said, \u00a0rules are made to be broken.\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

President Trump signed an executive order yesterday to end his \u201cpolicy\u201d of separating children from parents who cross the border illegally.\u00a0 He did so under extreme public pressure, and even greater pressure from the Republicans in Congress.\u00a0 They saw the policy as a huge campaign liability for November.<\/p>\n

President Trump states that separating children from their parents will stop.\u00a0 He also stated that the policy of \u201czero tolerance\u201d at the border will continue.\u00a0 This means that every person who crosses the border outside of the designated \u201cports of entry\u201d will still be charged with a crime, and held for trial.<\/p>\n

This was the change that started the entire border crisis.\u00a0 Prior to the beginning of May, those caught crossing illegally were processed for a \u201ccivil\u201d offense, then released until trial.\u00a0 Ninety-nine percent of those released were returning for their trial, even though the result might well be deportation.\u00a0 The \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy made the crossing a criminal action, and those charged are held in custody.<\/p>\n

So the arrests will continue.\u00a0 Families will be held together in custody.\u00a0 Within eight days all of the existing facilities designed for families are likely to be filled.\u00a0 This will be the first of a series of cascading crises keeping this issue at the fore of American thought.<\/p>\n

The second crisis is centered around the Flores Agreement.\u00a0 This legal understanding, originally settled in 1997, determines how long children can be held in custody by the Departments of Homeland Security or Justice.\u00a0 The agreement states that after twenty days, the children must be removed from custody.\u00a0If the parent(s) is still held in legal custody, and the children are not released to a custodial parent or relative, then the government is obligated to transfer the child to a \u201cleast restrictive\u201d situation.<\/p>\n

The government considers that \u201c least restrictive situation\u201d the camps and facilities, run privately under contract to the Department of Health and Human Services. They are holding 2342 separated children now, as well as several thousand other minors who crossed the border on their own.\u00a0 Lawsuits have already been filed questioning that action.\u00a0 The Attorney General has given notice that he will go to court to get the Flores Agreement modified, giving him more time to hold families in jail.\u00a0As a twenty-year old decision, it is unlikely the courts will do so.<\/p>\n

The second crisis under \u201czero tolerance\u201d will be when the \u201cfamilies in custody\u201d reach the twenty-day limit.\u00a0 Under Flores, those children have to be released.\u00a0 Under the Executive Order, they cannot be separated from their parents.\u00a0Will the Government release the families, or ignore the courts, or separate the children again?<\/p>\n

Or will President Trump declare \u201cvictory in defeat;\u201d release the families, and blame the Congress for failing to build \u201cthe Wall?\u201d\u00a0 This could make his policy failure into a \u201chot\u201d political issue for the November elections.\u00a0 \u201cMy hands are tied by Congress, give me a bigger Republican majority,\u201d might be his tweet the day that the families walk out.<\/p>\n

All of these are a few days out.\u00a0 But the greatest crisis arising from the President\u2019s actions is occurring right now.\u00a02342 children, from eight months to seventeen years old, have been \u201cseized\u201d by the US government, and literally scattered across the country.\u00a0 While the government has kept the locations and conditions of these privately run facilities secret, we already know that they are located in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Michigan, as well as in the southern border-states.<\/p>\n

There is no plan to return these children to their parents.<\/p>\n

The parents are in the custody of the Justice Department.\u00a0 The children are held in private facilities, ostensibly under control of Health and Human Services.\u00a0 There is no direct method, no wristband or bar code, that connects these kids to their parents. \u00a0The numeric coding used by the Border Patrol doesn\u2019t transfer to HHS. \u00a0And if the parent gets deported, there is no process to send the kids with them.<\/p>\n

There are already multiple cases of parents returned to their home country and unable to get their kids for months.\u00a0 Former leaders of the Department of Homeland Security have made it clear that there will be children who will NEVER BE RE-UNITED with their parents.<\/p>\n

The United States has taken these kids from their parents.\u00a0 We have kidnapped them.\u00a0 The penalty for the parent\u2019s misdemeanor offense of crossing the border illegally:\u00a0loss of their child, maybe forever.<\/p>\n

This cannot be allowed.<\/p>\n

Ken Feinberg is the attorney America turns to in its greatest moments of need.\u00a0 Feinberg was the \u201cspecial master\u201d who distributed the funds from 9-11, from the BP oil spill, from the Penn State molestations, and from the Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook and Aurora shootings.\u00a0 Ken Feinberg sorts out the biggest problems that our country has, and while he isn\u2019t always perfect, he is able to take these incredibly complicated actions and provide some relief.<\/p>\n

The Immigration, Customs and Enforcement Agency had no plan to put these kids back together with their parents.\u00a0 The Department of Health and Human Services didn\u2019t either.\u00a0 The kids, some infants, have been \u201cdisappeared\u201d into the maze of facilities and foster care programs.\u00a0 It will take a special person with special powers to get them back to parents, who might well be back in the dangerous slums of El Salvador or Guatemala before they can be reunited.<\/p>\n

Ken Feinberg should be appointed as the \u201cspecial master\u201d by the courts, and given whatever powers and authorities he needs to get the job done.\u00a0 The US government is willing to spend over $750 a night per kid to keep kids in tents in the desert; if they can afford that, they can afford Ken Feinberg.\u00a0Whatever the cost, it\u2019s the right thing to do, and it needs to be done NOW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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